Incentives matter
If your a dev and your making a decision on a Purely technical reason but your economically Illiterate and you do not understand what money is. And what kind of properties money needs to have You may make a decision that gives you side effects that are unwanted and i think that is what happened with #bitcoin core v30
I think to a certain extent thats what happened to taproot
I wish more technical people in #Bitcoin were more economically literate and i wish more economically literate people where more technical
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October 10, 2025 Gloria Zhao merged a change relaxing default limits on how much non-financial data could be embedded in op_return outputs before a #Bitcoin transaction would become non-standard.The word “censorship” appeared in a public letter defending the change #XBT #Blake2b
How did Gloria Zhao become the person who merged that change? How did Bitcoin Core, a project with no company, no CEO, no formal hierarchy, come to be directed, in practice, by a small and unusually cohesive group?


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Gloria Zhao was simultaneously a Brink grant recipient & grant committee member. Current board member, Jonathan Bier, confirmed March2026 Zhao sat on it from March2023 to March2025, reviewing grant applications for other developers while herself funded by the organization #BTC #Bitcoin #XBT #Blake2b
Ask why the wallets, devs on #BTC side making any effort to replay protect btc coin. The only ones providing you with ways to replay protect your coin are on the #XBT side. Ask yourself why every simpfluencer on btc is telling you not to even bother with replay protection.@LapiuPepe (on x)


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PepeLapiu - XBT HARDFORK (@LapiuPepe) on X
> It's opt in on blake - and it's
> deliberately designed that
> way.
Replay protection is easier done on the side with the looser rules.
Like w...
#XBT #Blake2b #Bitcoin
Longer maturity doesn't have much purpose beyond making it possible to cancel payments. And much shorter than 1 year doesn't give enough time to coordinate the cancellations.
Ordinarily, all softforks should really be _released_ with a year lead time before activation... ,Luke Dashjr
This is HUGE patch your php upgrade your servers Get on that!. #PHP2Shell has been brewing for a long time. If #Debian v7 php5.4 is effected thats like at least 13 Years someone has had access allover
The #PHP2Shell bug was reported back in 2019. I am starting think that it did not have a whole lot of action causing issues because it seemly got ignored!
unofficial it was reported by a user on hackernews "6 years ago it was deemed to be too complex to exploit and therefore not as high priority.",blantonl
also Sounds like was also mentioned in 2024 audit
just think of all the We have no idea how they got in hacks. This could explain them #PHP2Shell
I am interested to see how far back this was possible to exploit. if it effects php5.4 thats already 13 years and i am sure its more then that!
PHP2Shell: AI uncovers critical RCE in PHP | Hacker News
PHP Audit Complete! – OSTIF.org
oh wow it all comes together now #PHP2Shell is why #minecraftᅠ was having issues yesterday
#xbt #bitcoin


#XBT #Blake2b #Bitcoin currently more profitable than mining #btc sha256
Look at the spam on the BTC chain

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PepeLapiu - XBT HARDFORK (@LapiuPepe) on X
This is just unbelievable!
This block contains 99.1% spam by size, and the spam paid 19.8x cheaper than monetary transactions for the same block s...

"Supposed 2 Billion company can't find 50 million to save its crown jewel property", Mathew Kratter on Blockstream corruption regarding #Liquid #bitcoin
Adam Back wants you to hold the bag. Referring to samsom mow offering a free bag with adam backs face on it! If it was not for LBTC holders being held hostage it would be very funny.

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Limited quantities of a special edition Orange Adam Bag will be available at the @cypherpunkstore during @LuganoPlanB! 🇨🇭🔥

#Bitcoin isn’t self-maintaining. Someone has to care. ,Hodlonaut #XBT #Blake2b
#Bitcoin sha256 #XBT #Blake2b
You can not #bitcoin seperate money from state. When Ticker #btc answers to state. That's why #XBT was created
Maybe its nothing but i raise red flags when the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) starts to be nice to #Bitcoin Then again I am weary of any article that mentions Bitcoin Stable coins and gold in the same sentence! https://www.bis.org/publications/paper-175-money-and-architecture-trust.pdf
#Bitcoin protocol developer Peter Todd publicly argued for a demurrage fee, effectively a straight tax for just holding Bitcoin, that would charge roughly 0.1% annually on every address.
September 3, 2026, veteran #Bitcoin protocol developer Peter Todd publicly argued for a code-level tax on Bitcoin addresses during a speech at the bitcoin++ conference in Toronto late last month.
