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Starting the long walk to Vienna!

I think it's the logical, conservative approach. I wouldn't be upset with a wholesale replacement, but I would be dissatisfied if we didn't have a fair comparison. TBH, I don't know what "championing" would look like. I'm not going to hand-to-hand combat with anyone who disagrees! Nor am I going to spend all my time on it. If enough skilled people think it's the way forward, they will make it happen.

That's telling it strait!

The only on-chain impact I'm considering is OpenTimestamps, TBH. Building a long-term venture on the assumption that blockspace will be cheap seems unwise...

So I'm leaving Blockstream at the end of the month, to try to start up Century Metadata. A non -profit to store and serve a small amount of encrypted data for 100 years, for a small one -time payment. Lots of fun problems in doing this, only half of then technical. I'll be talking about it at BTC++ in Vienna, and I'll also be attending the Oslo Freedom Forum just afterwards.