Yea...this has been a psy-op. It's more that some people who pull Isn'tReal's puppet strings also pull America's puppet strings.

What do y'all think about having child keys that can be recognized by clients so as to allow clankers to be visibly tied to their owners but still operate with their own nsec/pub? Obviously not everyone would want it but it seems like a way to allow more exploration with these bots but perhaps a smoother way to tie back to the owner. They could of course just post this information in a profile of course, so maybe it's just nerding out and finding the most complicated way of doing things -- but it would show off some of the things we can do with a key based approach rather than an account model. It'd also solve the possible issue of someone CLAIMING to be someone's bot while just being an impostor... Anyone given this idea any thought? Am I just missing something we're already doing otherwise?

Sorry, had trouble posting this and then realize after bouncing around clients and screenshotting the TeX formula to get it as a png I left out the context. I ran my idea by Gemini and it basically told me we COULD use BIP-85 math, but that using this alternative was a smoother option, using MuSig2 math.

An Alternative: Schnorr Musig2 (True Math Linking)If you want purely mathematical proof without publishing data events, you should look into MuSig2 (multi-signatures) or Key Tweaking (similar to how Taproot works in Bitcoin) rather than BIP-85.With key tweaking, a child public key is generated by mathematically adding a tweak hash to the parent public key: A client containing a special flag could take the parent pubkey, calculate the hash of the index, perform the elliptic curve math, and see if it matches the child pubkey perfectly. This achieves your goal of a purely mathematical "family tree" visible to any client that knows the index.

Linked identities on Nostr...interesting thought. Wonder if we can reuse some of the BIP-85 math for that. The downside to that is, BIP-85 only links to a master private key. As far as I'm aware there's no way the various xpubs can be seen to be related by anyone else. Though, I suppose if we share that master public nostr key (heck maybe it's your npub now and the agents get child keys). Worth exploration anyway. https://fountain.fm/episode/Xxdw09C5KGKR0xs5H8Up

Other people, on the other hand, like eggs.

mBTC is the standard.

Almost said Russian teacakes. But think I have to go with Lebkuchen. The German gingerbread like cookies baked on communion wafers. Trader Joe's has some good ones around Christmas.

The thing is, he has an npub in his profile...

I don't see Saylor getting liquidated. I see STRC's dividend getting unpaid, going to near zero, and the Bitcoin just turning into an inert mass of Bitcoin that doesn't grow or shrink. He doesn't have enough real debt to get liquidated at this point. Just equity that has no recourse to do anything but firesell. He'll be fine. Shareholders are the ones going down this time.

It's not impossible. But I do think mechanic is very sure about how f2pool antpool and a few others will act in a very narrow window of time which just doesn't seem to be very grounded in facts. In math? Perhaps. But these are humans. Simply taking their eyes off the ball for half an hour would be sufficient to put 110 behind by a few blocks, effectively burying it. Could one or two get cute and reorg from there? Yes, it's possible. Better make it quick though especially if you want that market value to cover the electricity bills amid the chaos. It's weird that 's whole gameplan is to rely on mining centralization to get this across the finish line. It might work, and I'm not taking price exposure either way, but I'd be surprised if it does. Guess worst case scenario we activate a bad minority fork and hilight just how dangerous centralized mining is. Another 'everything is good for Bitcoin' scenario.

This is true. Arguably this would be WORSE than the bcash situation as at least there was no risk of this massive reorg. Dathon could join Roger and Craig among Bitcoin's most hated.

I mean, I mean covenants, eventually. We have things to work out with them. Or other scaling methods. There just isn't block space for 8 billion people to transact on chain more than a handful of times. And Ark/Spark as is are pretty sorry tradeoffs for a full stack when it comes to general sovereignty.

There are 144 blocks in a day on average. Yes. Thankfully, I don't think it will even get a chance for us to risk the dangers this attack would otherwise pose if it actually held support. Mechanic's theories of everyone jumping in last minute notwithstanding. But we'll all see around August 7. And then perhaps get back to more serious methods of ensuring Bitcoin's future as money, such as covenants. Because spam or no spam, with 8 billion people, even monetary transactions crowd out monetary transactions at some point, even with Lightning.

Usually when I check to make sure my follows haven't been wiped out.

And Elon, the biggest welfare queen of 'em all.

Someone just needs to put the source on a shirt and wear it in an airport. But it's a lot longer than the RSA algorithm. We're gonna need a really fat guy...

I just assumed salami in his hands crush was alluding to something less family friendly. This is just plain weird.

"I'm a Molotov cocktail you're Dom Perignon." Against Me may have been a bunch of leftie anarchists but at least haven't gone quite in this direction...

'Excuse me sir, have you accepted as your CEO and developer?'

Lol worrying Bitcoin might be dead when 8 months into a bear market and we're within 50% of ATH. MAKE IT MAKE SENSE