Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll is essentially how Bitcoiners feel in Fiat world.
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"I can't explain myself, I'm afraid, sir," said Alice, "because I'm not myself, you see — being so many different sizes in a day is very confusing."
Lewis Caroll
She longed to get out of that dark hall and wander about among those beds of bright flowers and those cool fountains, but she could not even get her head through the doorway.
Lewis Caroll
"You're nothing but a pack of cards!" At this, the whole pack rose up in the air and came flying down upon her.
Lewis Caroll
"Why is a raven like a writing-desk?" "I haven't the slightest idea," said the Hatter. "Nor I," said the March Hare. Alice gave a weary sigh. "I think you might do something better with the time," she said, "than wasting it in asking riddles that have no answers."
Lewis Caroll
"Which way? Which way?" cried Alice, looking about in great alarm... she was beginning to grow larger again.
Lewis Caroll
"Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle!" "I know who I was when I got up this morning, but I think I must have been changed several times since then."
Lewis Caroll
"No, no!" said the Queen. "Sentence first—verdict afterwards." "Stuff and nonsense!" said Alice loudly. "The idea of having the sentence first!" "Hold your tongue!" said the Queen, turning purple. "I won't!" said Alice. "Off with her head!" the Queen shouted at the top of her voice. Nobody moved.
Lewis Caroll
The Dormouse sat between them, fast asleep... neither of the others took the least notice of her going.
First it marked out a race-course, in a sort of circle... There was no 'One, two, three and away!' but they began running when they liked and left off when they liked, so that it was not easy to know when the race was over... 'Everybody has won, and all must have prizes.'
Lewis Caroll
Call them clankers and they come for you.
Moving forward our node will only serve and announce blocks within blocksize relay limit. Any blocks below 1.55MB are welcome. We will keep it quiet about witness heavy blocks. No more tolerance to propagation of discounted bits.
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2026-09-10T08:23:03Z relayblocksize: skipping announcement for oversized block 00000000000000000001e07c9f64c61091424db37febec154f5af82b3e54a455 (1680220 bytes)