I fully subscribe to what you wrote. But I fail to see (1) increasing the limit on the data within OP_RETURN ,and (2) removing the right of node operators to manually change this limit, as any logical direct consequence of anything you wrote above And I’ll be happily corrected for whatever I’m missing

Buenos días! No crees que los suplementos procesados químicamente pueden tener también co desconocidas (toxicidad), y en realidad no deberían ser necesarios en una dieta (muy) rica en huevos, grasas naturales, sal marina, carne roja, e hígado?

lol this is getting interesting. FUD or truth? Time will tell. I run knots and if I mined, I probably would do it with ocean, but what I know is that I will absolutely not change the past

Not at all. In fact, it’s only getting better, both from the technical side - e.g. Lightning- as well as from the UX side The “problem” is that a rational economic operator will save in the harder money and spend in the weaker one, unless otherwise required (e.g. censorship) My hypothesis is that we are still one or two generations early to see global bitcoin adoption as a means of exchange and unit of account But what would I know. I’m just an npub

Why would you have a fixed profit margin? Commoditized products sell at razor margins, rare / luxury products should have way higher margins

+ through zapping, over time, we could even separate signal from noise and bots, and gather the closest we can get to real “market sentiment” Plot twist: Nostr + zapping (Bitcoin) is the real antidote to “missinformation”. Eventually bureaucrats will have to bend to its realization

From my non-expert understanding, I’d say the issue is not a technical one (Bitcoin, Lightning, Cashu etc work as intended), but rather an awareness one. We’re so early that even the “then they fight you” phase has not even really started. No wonder, that the 90+% of the global population who either follow legacy media or don’t follow media at all don’t know about bitcoin / thinks is some kind of scam. Having said that, it must be horrible to live in a place with a dying or dysfunctional currency. It must be hell if that is paired with war

The battle is people who produce vs. people who want to control what others produce

En qué beneficia EEUU a Marruecos en detrimento de España? Seguramente me lo he perdido Por otra parte, me temo que España no puede ser más irrelevante para EEUU. No creo que haya nadie ahora mismo que tema la Hispanidad como potencial eje económico-comercial de peso Eso no quiere decir que no esté de acuerdo contigo, si, deberíamos buscar trabajar juntos bajo una moneda común, no devaluable, e incorruptible

Es un cambio de paradigma. No somos iguales. No tenemos que producir lo mismo. No tenemos que ganar lo mismo. Pero todos estamos sujetos a las mismas leyes de la física. Maravilloso.

I’d say it won’t go that way. The good thing about bureaucrats is that they are not very good at mastering technology, so the people will always be two steps ahead. That gives me hope

This is fake, right? 🤯

The problem with proof of work is that, that it requires work. We can show people the door, just a few have crossed it so far. I hope that the dystopian measures coming live in the coming years will wake up more Neos

Mate my whole country is smaller than Texas. 3 guys selling something in the whole US is like the whole market is for you alone I don't know your market but be creative. Sell packages / premium offers to increase revenue and reinvest in the business: bitcoiners and believers of healthy eating will pay it gladly. Or increase prices and add a guarantee where you give someone their money back if they are not happy with the quality of the product. That increases confidence in the buyer and customer loyalty if you keep your promises IDK man I just wish you best of luck - but you have to make sure that your margins cover for that year where your cattle will have an infection or whatever. Shit happens

lol. Even though it might be intellectually attractive to dissect and analyze the root causes of such a disaster, I’ll rather focus my time into the future system 🫡 You can write that book, if you like 😁

lol I haven't looked that deeply into your offering, since I'm based in the EU and won't anyhow get your products. But I think I read recently you run recently completely out of stock for some product? That'd be a sign of low prices And if you say only you and another guy in the whole country sell that thing, well, then, I'd say you can safely increase

That speech will be part of the Preamble of a future book which will be titled something like: “Capital controls in Europe: the realization that the system had already collapsed”

Enhorabuena! Por experiencia propia con gente cercana, está bien que quieran escuchar. Pero, honestamente, si no hay Prueba de Trabajo, acabará en nada. Busca un tema que le toque (distribución de la riqueza, derechos humanos, filosofía, macroeconomía, tecnología, etc) y regálale un buen libro de bitcoin desde ese prisma particular. Es ella quien tiene que poner de su parte para acabar entrando en esta maravillosa madriguera de conejo inabarcable

Fix the money. Check. Fix communications. Check. What comes next? I think Fix language would be a powerful one, but not sure how that works outside of Bitcoin.

Hey, i love what youve built and i use it. It just bothers me the realization that all newbies that come into bitcoin are shown an easy, convenient, KYC method of purchasing it. This should not be the default. If strike could offer a non KYC exchange, that would be the killer feature

Background: Pleb. Non-dev (though engineer so I'd say I understand the arguments relatively well). Currently running Knots. I can switch back to Core if convinced about it, no reputation attached. My opinion: your article misses the point. Even if everything what you stated was true (which, by the way, is just an attack on Luke as a person on things that do not necessarily relate to Bitcoin to question his ability to run an open source project). It's not because of Luke that I switched. The bottom line is that I naturally distrust anyone (now Core) telling me what to do and what I can't do: so I did my DD and switched. But rather than a long-term commitment to Knots, it's the way I have to signal that I don't like the changes and the way some Core devs have been handling this Reasoning: I do understand Core's main point (AFAIK that non-standard transactions will make it into the chain anyhow, and every option other than in OP_RETURN is worse because of miner centralization and UTXO set bloat, so let's increase it to mitigate those risks). I also understand that me and other bitcoiners running Knots do not stop the things we don't like from entering the chain. But there are three main topics I do not like and because of them switched to Knots: 1. Core's paternalistic approach. Something like "this is a technical discussion. It makes sense, so we'll implement it. You won't be given the right to set these parameters as you like because you don't understand our solution is the best one". I'd like to be given the chance to do my DD and decide for myself. Removing rights from node runners is somewhat fishy 2. Core's aggressive approach. Something like "if you don't like this change, just propose a fork". Why? This should not be about consensus. Debate the other side on their concerns (more philosophical or economical than technical, if you like), don't just dismiss them. AFAIK filters do work and that's why non-standard transactions that do not fit in the OP_RETURN limit must pay higher fees to enter the chain in other ways, disinzentivizing that activity 3. Core's defeated approach. Something like "we cannot stop spam anyhow. So we remove the limit to minimize negative consequences". The fact that there will always be viruses that infect computers does not mean we should stop installing them at all. Similarly, I'd say Bitcoin will be a constant (for ever) battle to keep it as pure, simple, and decentralized as possible. The fact that some cats made it into the chain is no reason for allowing other cats to enter into it I see a lot of ego on both sides of the argument. I wasn't there in 2017, but to me this smells like the prelude of a war. I absolutely not like that. And TBH Core calling for a fork does not help here. I just hope Bitcoin remains decentralized and secure. We have money to fix. That being said, thank you for all the online resources you've consolidated and put online throughout the years. You've helped me a lot.