Not many people on nostr for sure, yet normie world is still full of people thinking that government bonds are a pretty good deal somehow

Yeah sure! Let's say the situation is the following: you want to sell me your house somewhere on the coast of Portugal for 145K EUR. Let's also say that I have non KYC sats ready to be transferred. How do we go about it?

Zero Knowledge rollups seem to be a promising way to achieve scale in a trustless way: https://dba.xyz/a-bitcoin-l2-thesis/

Are flat-earthers still a thing?

As long as fungibility is preserved, why would this be a net negative? I'm talking generally

This is also an interesting thread https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/behind-the-op-return-drama/1650

I believe Schnorr could not have been used at the time due it being protected by a patent, which seems to have expired only in 2010 according to Wikipedia

That's what I think as well, but dismissing Core as a bad actor feels too much right now

This debate has been draining in a way, but it was always going to happen. I'm personally going to partially tune out of it until v30 is out and real outcomes can be observed. Long term we'll probably end up with at least two implementations, which should be healthier, but it's hard to tell how things are going to play out in the short term IMO.

Not siding with either Core or Knots at the moment, but this is certainly an interesting read on the topic by the Core dev proposing the change: https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/addressing-community-concerns-and-objections-regarding-my-recent-proposal-to-relax-bitcoin-cores-standardness-limits-on-op-return-outputs/1697 I urge you to read this in a through way, unless you want treat Core and Knots the same way sports fan treat their favorite teams.

Agreed, still not sure why Core cannot seem to make their point in a convincing way, nor do they seem able to momentarily stop to reassess things.

This is the point. I would have expected Core to stop and reassess things given the backlash from the community however.

Not true, take a look at what Alpen Labs is doing

Mostly because smaller blocks impose a fee market that could otherwise not happen. As the coinbase subsidy decreases with time, fees will be the only incentive for miners.

"the address is the hash of the public key" I'm not sure this is true for P2TR though, as per https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0341.mediawiki#cite_note-2 Maybe I'm misunderstanding what you mean exactly?