Has Doctorow gotten better at the one question IQ test (Bitcoin)? Or still a devout statist?

Better to die on your feet than live on your knees?

To be clear, while I think the Knotters arguments are invalid and poorly reasoned, I am genuinely happy to see a non-Core node achieve some traction. In the beginning, there was only Core. Over time, Core functions have peeled off. Mining, pool coordination, software wallets, signing devices, indexing, etc. Now we’re seeing the split-off of pre-confirmation peering policy. This is a good thing. It’s important that we agree on the consensus rules, but beyond that, the more diverse the ecosystem of software the better. I’d like to see Core reduced to basically “lib consensus” and let everything else get handled at the application layer.

Putting illegal data on Bitcoin is a self-defeating strategy for anyone other than a State actor. It’s basically prosecution futures. Encoding evidence for all time that any future lawman can use to track you down. Fears about illegal data being easier to encode are deaf to the incentives against doing so.

There are two ways to fight unwanted data. Pay-to-play, or an arms race of filtering. Adam Back figured this out decades ago. HashCash was invented as a solution to email spam to replace brittle filtering. Satoshi Nakamoto took this to the next level as the basis for a monetary system. Re-introducing a filter arms race is a step backwards.

Do you know what version and whether or not you’re using the Thinking variant?

1. It was always possible to put arbitrary data on #Bitcoin 2. It would be cheap and easy for a State actor to have done so at any point in the past. 3. A smart State actor would have seeded the time chain with illegal data long ago just in case they ever wanted to weaponize it. 4. Therefore, it is nearly certain that ILLEGAL DATA IS ALREADY ON EVERY FULL NODE OF EVERY BLOCK CHAIN. 5. If you truly believe that this is an existential threat to Bitcoin, then you may as well give up crawl back to fiat. 6. Bitcoin is indestructible, it’ll be just fine without your hand-wringing.

Correct. Synthesizing starts a Teal cognitive altitude (see Wilber’s AQAL for details).

Makes me wonder what it’ll take. Not convinced that Kirk’s assassination will be a catalyst.

I can’t see the post you replied to, all I see is the dice. Is there a site to buy these?

Imagine something happening

Nothing to see here. Partisan political performance. Same vibe as the “vote harder” crowd. The behavior of the Fed post 2008 is just the natural and predicable consequence of the creature from Jeckyll island Griffin warned us about decades ago.

Both red team and blue team are socialist. Red team national socialist. Blue team international socialist. Orange team is the only viable option. #Bitcoin

That’s easy to fix. Just start a foreign war like they did with Saddam.