> But it's not a ghost town, sorry. You're just wrong about that. Thankfully we can simply look at Bitcoin’s present-day fees and know that I am tangibly right and you a retarded liar. Fees are low because nobody is using Bitcoin.

"they would have completely agreed with my narcissistic jerkoff vision of Bitcoin” is hilariously solipsistic

The shitcoin-promoted narrative is the exact opposite. Luke Dashjr promotes an insane narrative that any steps to further the utility of the Bitcoin blockchain will make it a conspiracy to distribute child porn. Of course, the board of his company is run by shitcoiners. Shitcoiners own all the equity in the company that employs him.

Lopp was also there, and he also says this was the real history openly: https://x.com/lopp/status/2070124585593209222 You can also find a ton of statements to this effect on OG Bitcoin-talk threads if you want to waste time searching. But I think from here this discussion is obviously over, because this “Luke” person was clearly either not there or is intentionally deceptive. He’s either a fucking idiot running his mouth or a liar, and I don’t have time to entertain either.

How does Bitcoin losing value weaken Bitcoin’s ability to produce a valid block every ten minutes? How does people using other blockchains for literally every real world application of blockchains weaken Bitcoin’s ability to do so? It doesn’t! As long as Bitcoin produces a valid block every ten minutes it wins! Therefore, by your logic here, Bitcoin can fail in every conceivable manner, it can lose every single product application, but still “succeed” because you can jerk off to the current hashrate and block height. Well, most people want their money to do something other than be a masturbatory math problem. In terms of Saylor specifically, he openly says Bitcoin is *done*. That it doesn’t need a security budget. That it doesn’t need any additional features. That LN works perfectly and needs no further work. And he specifically has sabotaged research grant orgs like OpenSats under this logic, going to their patrons and aggressively demanding that they withdraw their pledges of *free financial support* towards further Bitcoin development. Note that I have been in Bitcoin since sub-$5 and most OG Bitcoiners aggressively dispute Saylor’s ideas here: https://x.com/evoskuil/status/1936866996911497416 https://x.com/francispouliot_/status/1936694426044432482 Saylor is poisonous to Bitcoin’s success, unless you define Bitcoin success as merely more blocks being solved. Which, I agree, Bitcoin will continue having valid blocks, and the fee market will continue to be a fucking ghost town because people will continue to not use Bitcoin and the blocks will be fucking empty.

This was the original definition of Bitcoin maximalism, before jerkoffs like Saylor and today’s Core sabotaged Bitcoin’s future. Altcoins were supposed to be demos that, when proven reliable, were to have their features integrated into Bitcoin. Instead Bitcoin’s entire “utility” became a bag to pawn off to retirees, useful idiots, and pension funds.

idk seems like the judge might see that and offer you a paralegal job

OH: “These chats will be aired at my Nuremberg trial.” “Just end every sentence with nyan, so you will be so kawaii to the jury. Kill women, nyan.”

Sorry this part got mangled: Content creators make money in one of three ways: getting a cut of advertising (twitter/x), merchandising sales, or subscriptions (Patreon/OF)

I dispute the basic value assumptions of zapping, and have a good case for why it is harmful to Nostr. I think all clients should strike it. No legacy social media has a button that lets you tip a specific post. It’s an incredibly rare action, even by your own post’s admission here. A total economic value of $300 a day is not worth putting a prominently displayed lightning icon on every post. It’s simply not how things work. Content creators make money in one of three ways: getting a cut of advertising (twitter/x), Patreon/OF). Zaps facilitate absolutely none of these models. The monetization theory of Nostr is “thing I like that I saw today that I will reward.” This makes it so no professional can use Nostr, because professionals want to build a relationship between their audience and themselves. It requires some underlying basis of predictable income, which only advertising and subscriptions can offer. Zaps will actively drive anyone who has a head on their shoulders and approaches media professionally away. They will immediately quit when they realize that the entire user experience functionally dissipates their financial relationship with their audience to the entire social graph of Nostr. People don’t want to get cuckolded by their posting app like this, and as long as zaps are around the only people who will use Nostr are crypto maniacs and people who are deranged or dissident enough to already be blacklisted from social media monetization.