on twitter i just put in the match hashtag and scroll through latest until something pops up it brought me to a streaming site ssh101, look up channel canalwc2026

my preferred way to watch world cup is finding a stream from social media, then dig into the ad-riddled page to find where the video stream (m3u) is hosted. then stick it in vlc or add it to jellfin liveTV the best streams are almost always from mexico, dont understand what they're saying but sure sounds exciting -- bless them 🙏

theres also that funky period between mandatory flagging and rule enforcement where miners (regardless of their stance on arbitrary data) scratch their head about whether or not to risk blocks being thrown away for the sake of flipping one bit 😅

without rdts in a contentious scenario (bip-110 doesnt die immediately) nothing stops that legacy node from throwing away those blocks if for whatever reason bip-110 blocks gets longer. something as benign as insane luck, edges cases for being offline too long, or not hearing about the legacy chain from ill-timed peers etc can trigger this since the reasons to throw away already-validated blocks can vary, it would happen seemingly at random with little to no notice to the user. This makes the node unreliable as it has to redownload and revalidate invalid/legacy blocks while being unavailable to validate and relay new blocks/transactions from that chain. with enough unreliability from the nodes running invalid/legacy chain; it can lead to wipeout and replacement by bip110 as it wipeout scenario only goes in one direction. tldr; without rdts theres no mechanism for nodes to hold onto the invalid/legacy chain other than living with perpetual wipeout risk for the sake of jpegs 😅

with some torrents older than bitcoin it would seem that if the data is valued enough to keep around people across time will seed it for free 😅

wouldnt you be able to lean on torrents' infohashes to make sure the data remains the same? why not pay people bitcoin to perpetually seed torrents? wouldnt that effectively be the same thing without all the technical limits of misusing the bitcoin blockchain and the overhead of validating blocks with irrelevant data for this use case?

why not just use a torrent?