I read Gigi's piece just now thanks to Nomishka's recap. I can't even begin to understand where you are. I do share some of the sentiment, especially about dad not getting to see his grand daughters. Wishing you the largest capacity to go on!

stink? this clunker is ill

I know there is a class of bitcoiners who learned a lot of solid foundations around computer science philosophy and it's visible in the basest of takes. They leverage experience of giants and have internalized to resist temptations. They exhibit things like: - KISS - YAGNI - Donald Knuth in premature optimization - Unix philosophy - Fail fast - interoperability principle - Make illegal states unrepresentable - Chesterton's fence etc.

GM! Have you seen blockamatic for taking pics? it adds blockheight and has paid filters https://blockamatic.vercel.app

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what? how? need to read more about it. can pre-0.4.8 clients bootstrap a network of their own?

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shitcoins are perversion

Featurism - the desire and perceived benefit of adding features - can spur growth and hype, but can also be a trap. I have seen a game project where devs (yes, including me) where so high on adding all the exciting ideas we conjured on or dev chat or when drinking beers, that we neglected stability, bugs and listening to users. One way to identify featurism (at least in a game, where balancing the game is important) is to notice, it after adding a feature, you have to come up with ways for users not to abuse it. Very often, after adding anti-abuse provisions, the features stopped being used. I learned to see that software can be like breaths of buddha, or whatever: - the deconstructive inhale is as important as the fertile exhale Pruning, nomem omen, the feature set can be healing. Fellow bitcoiner said recently that #BIP110 castrates bitcoin. Wording suggests it takes away vital functionality. But does it? It reduces expressiveness of some featurisms. Splicing is not harmed by BIP110, large insertions are. Elastic multisigs still will be possible, protected by grandfathering. No harm there. And these are not vital. There are just nice to haves. Programmatic inheritance is a nice to have. Truly vital functions of bitcoin are only reinforced and a proper way to defend featurisms is to curb the abuse, or remove completely. With time, in the game dev, I learned to listen to the most active critics of what we, the devs, did. By tapping in to the player's thinking I was able to make the game better. All this is to say, that if we were to drop some of the non-vitals, we'd have bitcoin be more like grep, and less like Windows 11 Notepad. And I use grep with pleasure.

Saw X spaces today with Paul Storc, went in curious to see what's going on. He said he doesn't understand BIP110 because spam is unstoppable anyway. Goes to show he doesn't think his audience is curious, smart and well-read enough to know this is disqualifying disingenuous framing. Many such cases, same with Shinobi, today seemed to have forgotten about grandfathering and again lied that some guy's inheritance of thousands of bitcoin is being rugged by bip110. I know they both know better.

I enjoyed Jack's talk, albeit he left a lot unsaid and some things don't click correctly to me in his speech. About your post above, I think there's a nice idea in it! Everything kB committed to the blockchain is physical mass and an energy requirement to supply by node runners forever. Here: - Monetary kBs will provide ongoing network effects for the system. tx is source for txs. - JPEG kBs will do nothing of the sort So if: - core is rotten and they won't cede control, - permissiveness halts bitcoin from bitcoining in the long run that we need, then BIP110 has to be attempted because if not, none of the problems are getting sorted and we get more anti-cypherpunk shenanigans: - bad covenants + suitcoiners + exchanges controlling utxo flow - fake L2s (KYC, surveillance and capital control) - ethereumization, bitvm, shitcoinery but on bitcoin Basically compartmentalization of Bitcoin into a meek and timid crypto-asset. I don't want that.

I think that is actually them acknowledging DATUM exists :-) It's funny... The only time I saw anybody give more or less equal respect for DATUM and SV2, was a guy talking about P2PoolV2 in a talk from Vienna just recently. He was praising both academically, as he's building an iteration on p2pool, with a market for shares. You can honestly evaluate things on their merit, without silly games of ignoring eachother. That was refreshing and bitcoiners should practice it often.

GM! At the Bitcoin FilmFest'26 you might've learned that Eagle is of the mind. Condor is of the heart. When my daughter sent me a pic from her trip, I was reminded there is a Polish connection. The Stork. Stork is a very Polish symbol. There are even several meanings: - flying stork -> good omen, luck ahead - stork circling the house -> pregnancy ahead - empty nest - bad luck - stork walking on the field - nothing - stork on the field cleaning feathers - bad luck All in all, I've seen a huge crowd of Storks one summer and the bull run was grand. Watch out for stork, frens! #bff #bitcoinfilmfest #stork

GM! nostr likes should be 1 sat zaps