immediately after the BCH split the BTC community started tolerating way more infrastructure that can be easily shut off and central points of failure. almost as if all the people who actually gave a shit about that had departed from the community. now you've got stuff that users see and touch just not working anymore because it relied on something centralized that got shut off.

home cooked food brings me so much happiness. there are only two pestos in the store with no sneed oil. one of them is really expensive and the other one sucks. if you don't like it you have to stand there and pick basil leaves, but you control the cheese this is chicken piccata, but I had no pinot grigio. the sauce used that cheap california champagne that people get for new years parties. I had an extra bottle because a couple people ditched.

the Command Output widget in KDE is fun

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monero grows 8 times faster on disk than bitcoin, for the same TPS. monero is also harder to prune and can't support SPV. even your nodeless wallet has to scan every block since the wallet birthday, so it's heavy. on monero you are gambling that consumer grade hardware and internet service improve faster than the rate of adoption. maybe it will. monero adoption is mostly slow and steady. their only fallback plan is even shittier payment channels. BTC community decided NOT to make that gamble at all, instead focusing entirely on lightning which has been a disaster, and fake sidechains, and a bunch of other stupid centralized things. everything they did was overwhelmingly centralizing. they are allergic to any expressiveness which could enable real sidechains, shielded CSV, or anything else. with monero, maybe you will drown in excessively large blocks someday and maybe you won't. on bitcoin you are already giving up and shoving everyone into spark. both of these plans are dumb compared to real sidechains, where you can try everything and ignore anything you don't care about.

we both know damn well the next time L1 isn't "dead" nobody will solve anything and people will just migrate to altcoins. exactly like last time. and if L1 stays "dead" well there goes your security budget. but that's the thing. this is how blockchains scale, naturally, all by themselves. a blockchain fills up and people just go to another blockchain. nobody has to write a blogpost or do a podcast or go to a conference and beg people to do this. people do this so much, it's massively popular. switching to altcoins is more popular than using lightning or cashu or any of that silly crap. this is what the market overwhelmingly chooses. the sidechain idea is the only natural way to scale blockchains. instead of going to a different blockchain with a different currency, one currency can be multiple blockchains. you can ignore the ones you don't use, they can all have different features, and miners get paid for every single transaction. no need for altcoins ever again, and the security budget is finally solved. you can do it with BIP300/BIP301, or it can also be done with covenant opcodes that are expressive enough. what you don't want to do is use a closed federation. that's retarded.

the whole concept of boltz existing at all is completely asinine. you don't want ANY architecture that allows for things to be completely shut off. boltz was solving a manufactured problem in an effort to pretend that lightning and liquid are viable technology.

can we be done with non-mining node fetishism now? no, you cannot sybil attack the bitcoin network with a raspberry pi. now fuck off.

"we can sybil attack bitcoin if we run enough non-mining knots nodes" is a hangover from segwit propaganda. most people who believe it were naive to bitcoin until after 2019 and still don't know how it works

we don't need boltz. we need a simple sidechain primitive

I made a Japanese castella cake yesterday

I have karagarga too but I can't get it into this thing cos they use cloudflare or something idk but my thing searches all of these at the same time and deduplicates the results. it's fuckin awesome

I learned that a lot of the things people call date rape drugs are primarily taken on purpose for recreational effects

miners care more about BCH than they do about BIP-1-stupid, and BCH people cared about core being corrupt first