There's a strange sense of justice in all this. Besides, a remarkable demonstration of how the bitcoin network has many uses beyond the primarily monetary one. View quoted note →

We couldn't send PGP messages on-chain with a limit of 80 bytes. What's the fun in that?

Complexity is the attribute of monero, not bitcoin. Basement farms doing reorgs at a whim, inflation bugs that can't be traced and so forth... No worries, we bash bitcoin at the expense of monero while hoping it sounds cool. Monero is a good project but the monero anime lovers have always been attacking bitcoin cause bitcoin chose supply-auditability over default privacy. These things are mutually exclusive. Just take the tradeoff you are willing to tolerate and shut the fuck up. View quoted note →

Goes on to show how human slop is not to be trusted. Even if it has a company behind it. View quoted note →

Seems like it is becoming a convenient way to legally socialize the losses: We got hacked Orchestrate Repeat View quoted note →

Statism systematically creates opportunities and incentives for parasitism. Unless state actors and their beneficiaries are subjected to strong external constraints — competition, fiscal discipline, performance criteria, rule of law, political accountability — rent-seeking tends to accumulate and the state increasingly becomes an institution for distributing and protecting rents rather than producing public value.

When people say "cryptocurrencies", it usually means they ate brain-dead.

Why the fuck should one feel guilt for something others did? View quoted note →

I wonder about the normie influx ratio after google login introduction to nostr. #asknostr

“Login with Google” on a Nostr client is genuinely one of the funniest self-owns in tech.

Moved to CLN a long time ago, never had an issue except for some insanely low fee selection for channel closures during congested on chain activity. View quoted note →

What's truly amusing: the majority of monero gang being against lukechain.

For LukeCoin is doing it now, can we just wave goodbye to the good folk like Kratter and wish them a merry "have fun staying poor"?

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