The challenge all fathers must face... Try using all the pieces for the boys' train set

Time to dismantle the healthcare, insurance, big food, big pharma, CDC, FDA industrial complex! Make America healthy again! #doge #maga

Finishing up the #blockSizeWar, and dang! This history is fascinating! This clarified a bunch of things, and I am not terribly hopeful anymore that a block size hard fork will ever be possible on Bitcoin. It seems more and more that the only scaling route that doesn't get rid of self-custody is drive chains and lightning combined.

Excellent sentence from #mattewKratter: "There's nothing American about the US dollar."

Listening to "The Blocksize War," currently. I just finished "Hijacking Bitcoin" a couple days ago, too. All that was going on right as I was still a newbie, so it's really good to learn the history. All things said, I think I have been approaching a balanced stance on block size. Keeping 1MB ad infinitum won't sustain a global self custody future, yet fee pressure is necessary for stability and security. If we are to increase, it'll have to be real strict rules, like the rate of increase must be tight, the consensus must be near complete, etc. In the future, we may have blocks that today look like what big blockers advocate, but they'll be succinct and packed with high value transactions, maintaining channels, supporting L2s, etc. When the users are there, a fee death spiral won't be an issue. The getting there must be done with extreme caution. Like the old adage goes, before tearing down a fence, be sure it's not been erected to keep in a bull. #bitcoin #blocksize #feelingBullish #lightning