Ginger, ginger, ginger. Grate frozen ginger (lots of it) and pour boiling water on it. Breathe in for a couple of minutes and then drink. Repeat a couple of times daily. Watch the miracles happen. Also, Xlear ( = saline + xylitol + grapefruit seed extract) is your friend.

But since it'll take years to have a good solution implemented, we better start now. I don't want any quantum solution to be replacing our current elliptic curve, just added to it. That way, any btc sent to a quantum-resistant address would require both signatures to be spent. The btc in old addresses, should never be consfiscated and always usable with the same old signatures. We would get a choice : pay more fees to use an additional (big) signature or go cheap and cross your fingers.

Yes... but we're just a small part of the funding. The actual funding is the money printing.

You're right, I have no interest in smart contracts. I'm only looking for freedom money.

He's also worried about... climate change... So he might be a contrarian signal. : https://www.marc.cn/2025/01/2025-the-year-ai-will-start-changing-the-world.html

But again, I'm not even suggesting that we stop using ECC. I'm only talking about adding to it (optionally, for those who want to).

The *one* person in government who's actually earning his keep.

That's how I had read it. Also, I have the same opinion as you do about the death jabs.

I heard about this really cool internet magic money and it's all open source. But I wouldn't touch it because I hear it was made by a pseudonym and we don't know who it was ... /sarc

On (1) : absolutely, and I wouldn't want bitcoin to replace ECC with PQ algos. I would want PQ algos added. So, if I choose to transfer to an address that also uses a PQ algo, I would then need to sign with ECC *and* with that PQ algo. For big amounts, I wouldn't want to risk it being at the mercy of a technological advancement. On (2) : higher fees : if bitcoin Core wants to consider that, there is a lot of work to do in making it harder for spam data to price out actual monetary transactions. The higher fees argument might have hit harder last year but v30 changed that (on top of what taproot and segwit did). They even changed the definition of bitcoin to make it into a jpg network instead of p2p money. On (3) : on killing cheap nodes : again, same as with (2), v30 pretty much affirms that Core doesn't care about that. They'll have us relay whatever spam spammers want to spam us with. Pruning is not an interesting option because it kills archival nodes and kills electrum servers. If we fix the bad incentives to spam the network with non-monetary transactions (thereby limiting the undue competition for blockspace), we can afford to protect the network by giving the option (for those who prefer that) to also have a PQ algo in addition to ECC. That might actually make blockspace more competitive, while keep bitcoin a p2p money network, and might be good long-term for the network when the mining needs to run only on miner fees. Many serious people are saying that quantum will be a threat. I'm not technically competent enough to know one way or the other. But giving what's at stake, adding an optional (additional) PQ seems to be the way to go.

Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.

I see that he's starting his own shitcoin : https://dark.fi/ "DarkFi is a new Layer 1 blockchain, designed with anonymity at the forefront." https://codeberg.org/darkrenaissance/darkfi and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amir_Taaki So bitcoin is not good enough for him, monero is not good enough for him. I remember how he just abandoned his darkwallet project. I'm not holding my breath for anything to come out of this either.

My understanding is that, normally, you now have to give biometrics for Europe. But your friend Peter Thiel might be able to help you bypass that ;-)

I listened starting at 49mns for a couple of minutes and he's just rambling that the lightning guys were lying, and he keeps repeating that. I was waiting for a little bit more meat on those argument bones. He says now he'll just challenge them to fight him physically... That didn't convince me of anything. In my book, he's insane. He went to fight ISIS, which to me indicates that he understands very little of what is actually going on in the world. And in went to Rojova to do that. Rojova = Kurds. Kurds still do excision (female mutilation). That this guy (Amir Taaki) would still be considered even remotely relevant blows my mind.

From my understanding : - the crypto used for extra privacy makes it harder to audit the total supply of coins, - the coin emission schedule (inflation), - frequent hard forks, which increases the dependency on the main devs (although that fear for monero feels a little overblown comparatively since bitcoin core v30), - limited options for second layers, which presents a problem for future scaling in case of massive adoption, and - the choice of preventing ASICs which limits the total hashing power of the network, making reorgs more likely. Those are the main concerns that come to mind right now.

Just make sure to also go to a european non-schengen country : https://visaguide.world/europe/non-schengen-countries/

OGs bought into bitcoin as money but Core with v30 wants bitcoin to be a jpg relay network. On a completely unrelated note, gold and monero pumped.

v30 -> OG maxis lose faith -> gold and monero pump. But keep on telling yourself it's not related.

Aunt Voula: "What do you mean he don't eat no meat? ... ... Oh, that's okay. I make lamb."