why would you park your fiat in paypal? there are so many more sensible alternatives

I did not begin using bitcoin safe in the knowledge that most of the other people who use it will culturally approve of my transactions. If that's really how it worked then I wouldn't have started using it. That's never how it worked. I began using it for the opposite reason. If my transactions are valid and at least one miner wants to get paid, I am not at the mercy of the majority. I don't care about the opinion of the majority and I should not have to. I don't need your permission to make valid transactions. The first person who wanted defi applications and smart contracts on bitcoin was satoshi. But he could only do it the dumb and inefficient way and we now have better ways that involve zero knowledge proofs and doing the actual work off-chain. People don't need your permission to insert zero knowledge proofs into bitcoin blocks. This is not a progressive position and framing it as such is ignorant. You are trying to turn bitcoin into a democracy by subverting permissionlessness. You are the progressive radical, not me.

the original version of bitcoin maximalism would have prevented this

behold: https://mempool.space/tx/fd3c5762e882489a62da3ba75a04ed283543bfc15737e3d6576042810ab553bc this OP_RETURN was 2.38 times bigger than your profile picture 🤯

I like how the idea in the leaked texts was specifically to put zk proofs into transactions. I was like holy shit, what a great idea!

nick is cute

endeavour on desktop debian on server

I honestly think a lot of people recognize this kind of talk is basically true but they recognize that doing something about it is too much work. I would also bet that most people who do this kind of whining are too lazy and selfish to stand by their words. everyone can tell it looks like empty masturbation. I'm personally really sick of hearing people whine about these kinds of things who wouldn't dare sacrifice their own life in any way whatever. you can take your fiberglass speedboat and color TV and shove it up your ass.

I don't know what is causing so many people from the "but grok says" crowd to even be on this network but I'm sure they're not being gatekept enough

any bitcoin maxi who guffaws at this picture is a stupid hypocrite. if you run a bitcoin node, you already have illegal data on your hard drive, that you can't even prune. it's on your computer right now and you send it to other people all the time. you tell yourself excuses just like this. you implicitly agree with vitalik's radioactive autism until you delete your bitcoin node. it's time to look in the mirror.

when are you going to delete your bitcoin node, since it already has unprunable illegal data on it? I'm waiting...