The small guys go first, not second. If you want to wait for the big guys to tell you what's up, may I suggest waiting for the next FOMC meeting.

Just came here to pour gasoline on the dog pile going on against NVK over the shit he's pulling stonewalling SeedSigner. Fucking shameful. @NVK

Gonna have to get good at SQL some day.

Man I can't believe TempleOS is implementing age verification

I miss when the Simpsons was right about everything - that was just depressing. Now it's Futurama that's right about everything which is leaves me fearful for our lives.

If Bitcoin is not optimized for financial activity, people will transact off chain using trusted third parties, and the blockchain will increasingly consist of junk data no one wants to store. The assertion that Bitcoiners will out-price spammers is contrary to all evidence.

Half and half is not cream.

Prompting Grok to save me time reading/rebutting Lopp's hit piece against BIP-110. Pretty decent summary.

According to bitnodes(.)io 7.8% of nodes are BIP-110. Luke's stats have it more like 5.7%. I'm sure some nodes have been spun up for appearances (equally sure that's true of Core nodes). I think it's fair to say there's already some genuine grass roots support for BIP-110 whilst virtually zero from companies/miners. It remains to be seen whether that's sufficient to draw in others. One thing of note is that if it came the other way around (no grassroots support, but big companies and miners all pushing for it) that'd be a far greater red flag and I'm glad it's happening the way it is.

Hence BIP-110 View quoted note →

BIP-110 fixes taproot. Until now it has making Bitcoin less efficient at being money due to the OP_IF nonsense. We have been consuming the same resources and facilitating *less* monetary activity as a result of taproot. The alternative ways of stashing data it provides will be largely parried by the second order consequences of successful activation of BIP-110. Vid 👇

The correct number of files to have on your desktop is zero.

Apple cancelled my order. Twice. So guess I am switching to Linux for my desktop/daily driver. So far discovered that Pop_OS! new COSMIC desktop requires restart if you ever want to change mouse speed. Spending an hour making a mouse not move 20x faster than it should is peak Linux. It's so annoying but I'm gonna make it work. I am sustained by a deep loathing of Microsoft and Apple.