"If you have this disconnect between core devs that value one thing and the users that value something else. I mean something's gotta give at some point, right? Either you get developers more inline with the users, or a lot of the users kinda end up leaving. This is not a trivial concern. It's a big attack surface. We've seen it in these communities where a lot of this political stuff enters and then the next thing you know it gets completely, sort of subsumed by this movement..." Chat #148 - 'It Doesn't Pass the Smell Test' with Jimmy Song

Removal of a standard was rule for transactions. The OP_RETURN has been changed for more than half the hash power, despite the many thousands of users who run that hash power having not actually made that decision themselves. Instead just 7 pool operators have made that decision for half the network.

This actually shows the real problem with "mining" today, regardless of filters. People with bitcoin miners are NOT mining Bitcoin. Instead jsut these 7 node installed v30, and now more than half the blocks created in Bitcoin have ben altered. Importantly, NOT half the people running hash power or the users who are trying to support Bitcoin, but the mining pool operators who *decide* what goes into over half the blocks. This is why DATUM is the most important project in Bitcoin.

Never take your freedom for granted. 🫡

The comment from the episode was in the context of some people who said it would be better to capture NFTs and Defi on Bitcoin. It was more general conversation about direction and less about the filter debate precisely (other than that was used by some as justification for it, but the op_return and direction of "capturing crypto" are only loosely connected, imo)

Does your Ai speak in Guy Swann? It could 🤣

BITS THE STANDARD MOTHER FUCKER!

100%, those are attributes that have an effect on its characteristics as good money. Though often both are misunderstood I think because there are obvious trade offs to similarly important characteristics of money for most/many proposed ways to achieve improvements in those. (e.g. privacy v auditable supply)

I want to go back to a world where irresponsible and corrupt banks crashed and went out of business.

Standardness* (stupid autocorrect)

I’m simply saying definitions are not arbitrary and too many people make that claim. Truth matters and if we allow the definitions of very specific things become murky or arbitrary, we lose the things they reference, explicitly, as a result. If you destroy the definition of the word “freedom” or allow it to mean something it doesn’t, or that isn’t sustainable or is intellectually contradictory, then we lose freedom in the real sense. We can’t have it both ways. We either define it clearly and hold to that, or we lose all concept and ability to defend it in the minds of those it depends on. Long way of saying, definitions matter as much as the thing itself, because they are interdependent.

There’s only one way to define it that makes any useful sense and can actually produce a prosperous society instead of a horrific one. Make its definition arbitrary and useless at your own risk.

Only in a society with some degree of freedom, can a generation grow up so entitled as to think the natural state of the world is having whatever you want whenever you want it. And that somehow “free markets” stole this from them. This is the foundational logic of socialism.

I like the individual logos for the apps they are building and that they are going for an ecosystem look so each tool has its own identity. But for them trying to keep the bee as the symbol of cooperation and growth, it def looks like a hornet or similar. I like the color scheme fine though. Would be nice to make have that same touch of black in the main logo that they have in the individual, but I get that the simple 2 color scheme is way more versatile and works far better when icons or images have to be really small. I’ve run into that myself while we’ve done brand marks and the like. This could throw off the balance, but the butt should be more rounded to emphasize it’s a bee and not in “attack mode.” Overall I like it fine though. I’m a minimalist fan myself.

Logo kinda looks like a wasp or a hornet - saw point this out too. Otherwise the branding looks super clean and I like the new look.

I go back and forth on the ossification issue. I do think we may have inadvertently pushed heavily in that direction though because this issue, which I think is way more inconsequential to the problem it’s supposed to be helping than a dozen others, was clearly the most politically charged one to make. I like the harm reduction argument generally, except that it directly contradicts the economic incentive argument. I just can’t make a good picture in my head how this is going to do anything but lead to more spam and won’t do anything to lessen the inscription/stamp issue at all. It’s literally 75% cheaper to use inscriptions. Nobody is gonna use it like a “trash can” who is using it now because the very people making use of it are the ones who don’t care that there’s garbage all over the park. In everything I’ve seen it just looks like they just want a cheap way to sell bullshit NFTs to people. At least if there are simple filters, they are forced to run a node without them if they want to get their stuff in the chain. This is the least I think should be required if they are explicitly manipulating transactions to be unspendable to trick the chain into storing jpegs or whatever arbitrary data they want. If they care enough to help host the network, then nobody can stop them and it will work itself out. But if they are only doing it to freeload, then I think those nodes who want to support a monetary network have no obligation to broadcast spam. 🤷🏻‍♂️

This is way cooler than I think most realize.

🤣 My assigned FBI agent sucks if he hasn't found something yet.

You're welcome: note: "Oh, look at the genius devs, bailing at 80% to chase sparkly new projects, while real champs wade through the soul-sucking swamp of diminishing returns to dunk on their quitter rivals." note: "AI nerds fantasize about infinite brain-bursting gains, blind to the fact that human vibes and content mean their precious models hit a wall, spitting out increasingly meh results with a side of hilariously dumb flubs."