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Can't wait for the blackrock coin airdrop... all 42quadrillions of 'em coins.
What I find funny is that I saw you posted on this on twitter too and every response is thinking that your commentary is on the post itself — ie it’s the poster of the screenshot that “doesn’t understand bitcoin” But here each one sees that post and agrees with it like it’s affirmation
Last I checked we are still under 100,000 discoverable full nodes. I've often wondered what kind of risk would be posed by someone spinnig up millions of nodes on AWS. Is there an attack vector there or would they be meaningless without coins and hashrate? #asknostr
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Bobby 1 year ago
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Asako 1 year ago
ok, I will continue to buy Bitcoin.
#aksnostr And here I thought I understood bitcoin. And if I do - the answer is NOT. A raspberry node doesn’t contribute hashing power to the network and to change the network one needs to either control or convince 51% of the contributing network. Or - did I miss something? Somebody please clarify
I think you miss something. The nodes choose the rules they operate by and defend the immutability. The miners defend the transaction history. Obviously it's not the whole picture.
Hash power has nothing to do with consensus rules. Nodes enforces consensus rules and miners apply hashpower to discover a block under those rules. Anyone can propose different rules, but if you don't agree, you just keep using the version of Bitcoin that you like in your node. Period.
You really think the miners aren't going to follow the profitable blackrock fork and instead mine the chain your RPi agrees with?
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G 1 year ago
I think they’d be able to easily understand it after it has been explained properly. However, the concept is so alien that it’s hard to believe that it’s actually true 😂
Indeed many people don't understand Bitcoin. A node doesn't have any influence on the network unless it adds blocks or pays fees. Think of it like this: Your node only has READ access, but cannot write. You can verify, but you cannot create. Write access requires hashpower or transaction activity.
In that case you influence transaction activity of others to be in accordance to the protocol rules of your node. Your node technically enables you to do that. But in the end, your power to influence others comes from your economic potential, not your node. It doesn't matter if you have 1 or 1000 nodes. Theoretically, you can do this even without node, in which case you cannot completely verify the settlement of the transaction yourself, but you could still exert your influence. Or in other words, your node has zero influence if you don' t connect any economic activity to it.
You can be Elon Musk and yet without a node you won't achieve shit. Of course having more than one only gives you increased service availability but doesn't affect the network. And if your economic activity is not linked to your node it also has no effect.
Yeah, but they won’t stick to their guns. Thinking that bitcoin is the wheel of the people has always been the problem. It’s such a libertarian way of thinking. Like the non-aggression principle totally ignoring the fact that the aggressor will win. When it comes to money, it’s just about bribing a majority. No one has a way to scale bitcoin adoption. No one is even trying to seriously start digital or virtual governments and you’re never going to get a currency unless you can replace the security government‘s provide, which is why people seed the power to print to them. People are bribed and become bought and paid for and give up their rights for little trinkets and shit.
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sister_sam 1 year ago
Don't know about uncapping. Bad enough Blackrock already has 5% of supply and has veto power over any forks. Also it is likely to push OFAC lock downs of wallets and transactions. In general I am not sanguine as Bitcoin is pulled further and further into bankster land and legacy finance it was mean to give an alternative to. Its journey to the dark side will be complete when it is US government reserves.
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Scott 11 months ago
When bitcoin is completely minded out, and we are only left with consensus rules, will polarization drive policy with bitcoin like it does with democracy?
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Scott 11 months ago
Well, the problem we have now is that nobody agrees on how to redistribute money. This is why everybody disagrees about who should be in charge of it, which is why it is seated to the government because they offer a redistribution model for “equitable” welfare redistribution. You’re not going to get the majority of people to agree to a pure meritocracy such as bitcoin so it will become Ideological - polarization driven by individual self interest will require a welfare model or a governing body to determine how to re-distribute bitcoin earnings. This is just how people operate.
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Scott 11 months ago
“It just won’t be bitcoin!” Yeah, exactly, bitcoin won’t be universal… it isn’t a fiat mindset to contend with the social demand for redistribution. You can actually be serious. You sound like a fucking moron who is ideological possessed by greed
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Scott 11 months ago
Libertarianism is such a luxury belief. Taxation for the purposes of redistribution is a function of the monopoly on violence to ensure the poor don’t kill the rich, take all their shit and crash civilization in the process. This is why bitcoin maximalists are not taken seriously as rigorous thinkers