And with that, BIP110 chain looks to be dead in the water. Two whole blocks, both by the same sub-pool of miners under OCEAN, until they saw the writing on the wall and called it quits, though "not defeat" somehow. Sorry guys. I was sympathetic with the idea of placing reasonable limits on spam on Bitcoin, but you failed hard at winning hearts and minds to your cause, and then stubbornly decided "we're going to do it anyway, because game theory!" It didn't work out. Changing Bitcoin is hard, and should be. 20% of nodes is not consensus. 80% of nodes not doing anything is not "indifference." Many of us stayed on Core or pre-RDTS versions of Knots as a specific choice against changing what is considered a valid block, and mining pools went with that majority. Heck, even many OCEAN miners went with that majority, as evidenced by block 961634. OCEAN couldn't even achieve consensus among its "own ranks" and yet expected to game-theory it into existence among the rest of node-runners and miners? That was some next-level optimism.

They thought node support would force hashrate to follow. The problem was they didn't have node support either.

Get rolling, plebs. View quoted note →

Aged well, didn't it? View quoted note →

Not on my Bingo card for this year, I must admit.

Feels good to be home!

One hotel we stayed at goes through an average of 172 liters of beer for every man, woman, and child who stays there each year. View quoted note →

I have it on good authority that this is 100% accurate.

GM Nostr. Back stateside, but still making my way home after some delays. Will have quite a lot of photos and such to share when I finally get back, and a lot of new Nostr things to play with, too. @Geek I am sure you have been busy while I was in CZ 🇨🇿.

I am the patriarchy of my family. Many will balk at that statement, but my wife and daughters love and respect me enough to gladly follow my lead. That does not mean I am perfect, as I often make mistakes. That is why I LISTEN to them and take their perspectives into account. But at the end of the day, whether I go with their suggestion or not, the responsibility for the outcome rests on my shoulders, as God intended. Men: Lead by sacrificial service and loving, prayerful, shepherding of your home, not lording it over those under your charge, but lead you must.

Found on a bathroom door in Prague:

Another wonderful day comes to a close here in CZ 🇨🇿. GN Nostr.