If bitcoin was highly valuable as money by the entire world population, and the block subsidy was zero, and fee revenue for miners was next to nothing, how much would an ASIC cost? Very little right? Does that make it easier or harder to get 51% of all of them and attack Bitcoin? The cheap machines would be attractive to attackers, but also to those with wealth wanting to defend their own wealth. What's important is not precisely calculating today what percentage of attackers and defenders there will be then, but acknowledging the fact that fees are not required for the competitive nature of mining to remain, and that being that case, it still defends Bitcoin, and all talk of tail emission should be stopped immediately.

If you imagine being an outside observer of the entire universe, you'll see an incredibly vast and highly complex system that sparsley sprouts pockets of replicative self-aware blobs (life), unable to fully appreciate what exists, and mostly just absorbed with themselves rather than all that exists.

Was blocked by Peter Todd today after I called out his evil for celebrating the attack on Russian civilians. True colours on display, and no amount of contribution to Bitcoin should give anyone a free pass for being evil.

I hate censorship. Filtering out non-monetary data on Bitcoin is objective, and is not censorship at all... Because Bitcoin isn't a general speech platform - it is a specific speech platform allowing the movement of bitcoin. There already exists an unstoppable speech platform, notes and other things transmitted over relays (NOSTR). No transfer of Bitcoin from one address to another can be censored from Bitcoin. Payments are essentially censorship resistant. Arbitrary data is not, and should not be - that'd be inventing a different purpose for Bitcoin. If a particular transfer got blocked because it has arbitrary data, the exact same transfer can be reattempted without the arbitrary data and it will get through. Inscriptions data inside an "if false(data)" block is objectively not part of the attempts to make a financial transaction. It is objectively added on as arbitrary data. It can be filtered out without stopping the movement of that particular UTXO. The perpetrator can simply republish the transaction without the arbitrary data and the exact same satoshis will move where they want it to go. Does this kind of argument have a place, Gloria?

Did you know, door manufacturers, after October 31, will no longer produce doors with locks, because locks on doors don't stop crime. I could explain but the way locks work is quite technical, you wouldn't get it. Instead, I'll get Shinobi to run Adam Hack's X account to explain to people how locks technically work (eDuCaTiON) to distract them from what's going on. There will also be debates and forums on spaces. If you don't like it, just use windows instead of doors, or build your own doors.

"Grok please generate a text message conversation where Luke is considering a bitcoin hard fork."

Get a girl who's a Bitcoiner and uses vim. Nah, don't, that's a dude.

There are a few people out there who don't make their own pastirma and frankly, it's a little upsetting. It's not expensive to make. Recipe...

Pastirma / Basturma – Bitcoin Guides

Consensus lives in a network of human minds ("philosophical consensus"), partly represented by the choice of code that's run (or adhered to) by such a group, and another part unrepresented, unwritten, and sometimes not apparent. It's NOT the code that's in charge, with the ideology being secondary (subservient to the code), it's the exact reverse. One example of a hidden fracture in ideology was when big blockers and small blockers shared the same general ideology and were in consensus according to the code, but there was a fracture that only became apparent in 2017, and the code changed for each group to reflect their ideology. Currently, a new fracture is appearing. On one side, people believe stopping spam is censorship (even though the purpose of fees is to limit ddos spam attack, not stop). On the other side, people believe Bitcoin is money first, and storing data is a byproduct of that function, not a primary purpose, and so it's not censorship to limit spam. Just because the code can't enforce this ideology precisely, doesn't mean we change our ideology (it's like changing documentation to hide a bug). These two ideologies are why the change to Bitcoin Core is contentious. Without understanding this difference in ideology, there's no point trying to have logical debates.

It's not easy being on the side that defends making it easier for CSAM to be relayed through everyone's node, for some imagined/debatable benefit (i.e. less miner centralisation). It's time to take a good hard look at yourself and accept you were wrong. If you weren't taking a side, it's time to step up. You don't have go deeper into Core Derangement Syndrome ™. Just switch to the correct side, and join us calling out the stupid arguments of Core Groupies. This is not a Knots vs Core debate, you don't have to like Knots. It's a "Core is wrong" debate.

Bitcoin Core will be used as a mule for free, unstoppable CP/CSAM by sickos or state actors, in order to attack Bitcoin and prosecute those who knowingly allow it. This is the attack... Once op_return is removed, plain JPEG images (not part of multiple fragments inside scripts that need to be pieced together and decoded, but plain JPEG/GIF/MP4) will be sent through your Bitcoin HardCore node version 30+, from one paedophile to others, possibly sold (Knots runners won't touch them, ever). Your Core node will happily pass it along, providing anonymity to the criminals (or state attackers, or Epstein's old clients). They will pay a well below market rate initially (eventually zero), and never even need to get the transaction mined - key point. The original filter that Satoshi introduced, FEES, will be effectively bypassed... After some time, these low-fee CP/CSAM txs will be dropped by Bitcoin Core nodes, but if they don't, the sicko(s) can do an RBF of the transaction (or if they have chained them, an RBF of a single low-fee unconfirmed parent), to cancel and invalidate the transaction so they don't have to actually pay for any of the downstream higher fee large transactions. They will have successfully used your computer to transfer and potentially sell horrible images, without paying (so forget "filters don't work, they'll get on chain anyway"), thanks you being complicit, and thanks to all the Core devs who allowed this in. And those gaslighting against us saying this is wrong. Then public opinion will turn heavily against Bitcoiners, if it isn't bad enough now. We already know it's going to get worse as most miss out. @adam3us has pointed out, incorrectly (I'll explain), that this attack can't work, because of some "package relay". Sounds like this is a filter to stop RBFs of a parent if there is a long chain of transactions dependent on it. A clever idea, but it can't work, Adam. Do you know why? Because your resistance itself is a form of FILTER, and FILTERS DON'T WORK, remember? You can not use an argument against us if that same argument is used to defend yourself. An attacker can get their cancelling RBF transaction mined by going directly to a miner. Then the scumbags get away with using your Bictoin Core node for CP/CSAM transmission - it's irrelevant whether it gets on a block or not, it doesn't need to, the paying paedophile got his images. Ironically, filters not working is the very reason we need filters. There are 3 solutions. 1) Bitcoin Core reverses this STUPID rushed decision, introducing completely unnecessary risk to Bitcoin. 2) We all run Knots, and it becomes the reference client. 3) We move away from Core to Knots, and maybe others will pop up, and there is no reference client, meaning fewer meaningful changes to Bitcoin become likely. Bitcoin doesn't need changes; it needs general light maintenance, so just maintain it, don't change it! x.com/adam3us/status…

Today on "Old man yells at society" ... Self serve checkout at Safeway, staffed by 5 people ushering people to checkout... "Paying by card?" STFU, everyone is paying by card, you're just in the way. Just make each machine accept card or cash and you save paying the salary of five people. They tukerrjowbs!!

Tip 🔥 If you're thinking about buying Bitcoin, but looked at the price and it's gone up a bit too much recently, and it feels too expensive at the moment, try this simple trick... Buy it.

Why aren't you constantly violently sick in your stomach that you, your parents, your grandparents, humanity, all worked their butts off, and central banks just print their money out of thin air for free, and tell you with a straight face that it's so you can have a job, and keep prices stable. MOTHER FUCKEN WHAT? Buy #Bitcoin to destroy these fuckers, and then we also incarcerate them all for good measure.

You're a fucking retard -- experts say.

Switzerland is a waste of energy. It could be used to mine bitcoin instead.

Releasing today, ParmaKnots ™ - A home ParmanodL server in MiniPC form. ParmanodLs also available here. I did a custom web design, hope you like it, feedback welcome. https://parmaknots.com For those who are not in to clicking...

Parmanode runs Bitcoin Knots by default. It's possible to run Bitcoin Core if you must. Version 30 will not be supported. If you want that, install it yourself, you're not going to use my software to do it.

White to play and win. Winner earns 1 #ƨat zapped from Parman. Wrong answers must zap me1 sat.

It's happening. I'm moving away from VSC and Cursor to a full VIM IDE. Wasn't satisfied with VIM integration in VSC/Cursor, needing mouse more often than I'd like. Combined with some tools including Tmux, I see a bright mouseless future, and Holy Panda keys.