Imagine if social media was available a century ago…

“You buried mercy under the rubble and now you ask for compassion!!!”

In addition to what @Matthew Kratter said in this video I would add the following I will add the following points: 1) Israel, the son of Abraham, had a brother also, Ishmael. Ishmael being the father of the modern day Arabs 2) Allaah also blessed Ishmael and promised to make his children a great nation. 3) When have the Arabs ever been a ‘great nation’? After advent of Muhammad 4) As Matt Kratter pointed out, the Bible has a long history of corruption & ambiguity in its message. 5) Such ambiguity now leads some to be ok with genocide in Gaza thinking they are ordered to. 6) Such ideas seems ironic considering what muslims are accuse of. 7) In Islam, what matters is YOUR actions, not your lineage. “Never will your relatives or your children benefit you; the Day of Resurrection He will judge between you. & Allāh, of what you do, is Seeing.” Quran

Matt kratter kills it once again

A great video here by @Matthew Kratter regarding recent developments, and I was extra pleased to see Bruce Fenton heavily mentioned in it. Bruce has always had a solid stance regarding these stupid forever-wars, & I wish the American Gov was more like him https://www.youtube.com/embed/BBu-1zfc-OQ

For those who were/are concerned about quantum computing breaking stuff, then this may be useful info. It’s worth checking out the full video if you’re mathematically inclined.

I saw this and immediately recognised the argument about the OP_RETURN limits being lifted. Why not just say “I want to help spam and don’t really have a good argument to justify it.

HMRC is coming for you!!

Bolt is good

An analogy: if a government provided public transportation to help ppl get from A to B throughout the city, but then some ppl increasingly began to use it to sleep on instead as a short stay hotel, or as an office for remote workers. They may even say “but I paid my fair to be on the bus!” But if enough ppl do that, then it turns the entire system into a short stay hotel or hot desk office and crowds out those who want to use the it for its original purpose. The general public (and the bus system) are harmed by this use of the bus that wasn’t ever the intention. So if ppl are unable to get to work due to busses being filled with ppl sleeping, thats analogous to ppl not being able to run nodes anymore because it’s now too difficult. The purpose was that everyone should be able to run a node at little cost. More node runners means more decentralisation, fewer node runners means more centralisation.

A great video by @GrassFedBitcoin I get the feeling that 2017, nodes took back control reminders, but today, nodes are trying to take back control from the devs. The one thing I know about Bitcoin is that it’s a network that serves node runners. If you’re attempting to serve anyone else then you’re not working in Bitcoins best interests.

A great interview with Luke regarding the topic of spam on the network.

A great video for node runners

One of the best take downs of ‘GDP’ I’ve ever seen. Absolute carnage

This was quite interesting. Fascinating in fact.

A fascinating vid

Hashes form an important part of Bitcoin, so knowing about hash collisions is also important. Hashes are used for transaction ID’s, for block validity, reduction of the output size by hashing the public key or scripts and sending money to the hash, it’s even used for lightning invoices 🧾. A hash collision wouldn’t affect mining, as all we care about is whether it is below a certain number. It would somewhat affect a transaction ID in terms of spending one’s tx. If a node looks up your tx ID and it points to the wrong transaction, then it may have a slight inconvenience, but I would assume it would try all TXID’s that come up positive. The spend script won’t be spendable to all TXID’s. But a hash collision WOULD be an issue for spending TX’s where Bitcoin was sent to a hash. It would mean someone else could spend my coin, but that can only happen on a transaction by transaction basis, and isn’t something that once it happens it affects all transactions simultaneously.

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