Shinobi

So that was a fun story arc.

I'm never deleting my Nostr. That's how you miss a scam pumping.

Next month is gonna be really rough for Luke.

Helno. This is your regular reminder that just trying to recreate Twitter on Nostr is ghey and retarded and there's a million more useful or interesting things to do with it k thx bye.

How goes the scam?

Too few people understand that what really controls Bitcoin is sybil nodes not used for actual economic activity.

Coretards are going to be so broken later this year.

What's more important to Bitcoin's future:

1. figuring out how to build scalable self-custodial systems that can survive in a hostile environment, and hopefully help prevent protocol consensus being captured by state politics, and BRINGING THAT TO THE MASSES

OR

2. crying on social media to a tiny group of a few thousand out of touch people all coping with the fact that Bitcoin is growing beyond them, and they are not the center of its universe anymore, for internet micro celebrity points

Hmm? Which one do you think leads to a future of Bitcoin thriving as a global apolitical money?

https://x.com/brian_trollz/status/1783840081675251849

I'm running Core 30.0. Feels good man.

Cry harder useful idiot statist cucks.

Nostr devs are fucking retarded.

Nostr shouldnt be organized like Twitter, it should be organized like Reddit.

Here's the second article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series for @BitcoinMagazine. In this piece, I go over Statechains, a proposal originally designed by @SomsenRuben in 2018. Two different implementations were later made by CommerceBlock in 2021 & 2024.

Find the article below:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-layer-2-statechains

LOLOL. Literally first 10 seconds of Mechanics new deranged rant: "You might be surprised about how I feel about Bitcoin, because there's what I say publicly, but then there's how I actually feel."

Okay, so you're a liar and disingenuous. Got it.

Its amazing how many ignorant pieces of shit took the bait here.

I love when people call me a spammer/scammer/jpeg person/etc. People demonstrating a willingness to lie/invent nonsense is just telling on themselves with regards to their own character.

The last time I sold or profited from an NFT was in 2016.

Every other one I've ever owned I still have, and I always will. They are not investments to me, or something to profit from. They are novelties. They are gifts from friends. They're stupid little mementos from different periods of history in Bitcoin I've lived through.

So to all the clowns who constantly whip out those labels because they are incapable of making any logical or principled argument whatsoever:

I challenge you to show me a single example of me shilling jpegs or scamming people.

You can't.

Wake me up when any business that matters (I.E. not OCEAN) is running Knots.

Every time you see any clown say I am a Core developer you can be 100% sure they pay attention to nothing and have no clue what they are talking about.

Here comes the first article in the Bitcoin Layer 2 series for @BitcoinMagazine. Here I go through the Ark protocol, the newest Layer 2 protocol for the Bitcoin Network. Ark is both very different from, but also similar to Lightning.

Find the article below:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-layer-2-ark

Mechanic is a deluded clown. "Nodes have no incentive to relay tHe SpAm." Yes, they do. Because they will wind up in blocks, and your node will download and validate them anyway BECAUSE THEY HAVE TO in order to validate your own money.

Enough with this delusional and imaginary nonsense pretending running a node is some altruistic service. That is a debunked nonsense meme.

If you are running a node for any other reason than verifying your own transactions, you were sold a fairy tale.

If you aren't using your node for that, cry, run something else, shut it down, no one who understands how Bitcoin actually works cares.

A node not used for validating your own transactions is completely useless, and does nothing for the network besides provide relay bandwidth.

Kicking off a new @BitcoinMagazine article series today. Bitcoin Layer 2s. Blockchains definitively do not scale as a transactional architecture to anything close to a global scale, as such, we need to layer up other systems on top of them.

Find the intro article below:

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-layer-2-the-key-to-scaling-bitcoin

Under no circumstances will I respect or allow myself to be bound by any governmental decision, arbitration, or punishment that is not decided and ultimately appealed to a living human being.

Period.

Hope everyone in Vegas enjoys the Republican National Convention. Time to rock a Beefsteak.

Shalom.

how goes the scam shitbag?

is a shitbag.

How goes the scam?

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/the-clock-is-ticking-while-you-do-nothing

I am next to a grumpy old man. He hates Nostr.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/the-money-isnt-fixed-yet

Don't be like this moron. Clueless, overconfident, and spewing baseless nonsense. There are too many people like this in this ecosystem literally conducting a Denial of Service attack on any adult or logic based conversation regarding upgrades to Bitcoin.

Point 1: CTV does absolutely nothing to change "spam transactions" as something that can happen on Bitcoin. All CTV does is commit to chains of transactions, exactly like pre-signed transactions do now, except enforcing them by consensus. It makes zero difference on any level to people's ability to flood the network with long chains of transactions.

Point 2: CTV cannot do recursion, period, full stop. That was an explicit design goal. It cannot create circular chains of transactions either, that is impossible under the laws of information theory. Transactions must reference transaction IDs, once one transaction with ID A is spent, that TXID cannot be recreated, ever. Full nonsense gibberish.

Point 3: Nothing about CTV creates a risk of walled gardens at all. Self custody not scaling, and forcing people to use Coinbase, or Cashapp, or River, creates the risk of walled gardens. The only way for most people to use Bitcoin being with the permission of a custodian creates the risk of walled gardens. This is incoherent.

This moron VERY clearly just regurgitated incoherent ChatGPT hallucinations to try to participate in a conversation he doesn't understand the first thing about. That is a Denial of Service attack. Don't be like this moron. If you want to participate in these conversations, than be humble and recognize the limits of your current understanding, and work to expand the horizon of your understanding.

Don't regurgitate incoherent bullshit to argue a dogmatic position you don't even understand the logic behind.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/bitcoin-script-focus-on-the-building-blocks-not-the-wild-geese

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/jason-spaceboi-lowerys-bitcoin-thesis-is-incoherent-gibberish?new

you should check out

Today is the day Satoshi announced an unstoppable decentralized monetary protocol. Something that would enable people to send money to anyone in the world without any third party being able to stop them.

Use it for what it was meant to be used for. Yusef Mahmoud is a Palestinian cab driver who has been helping feed civilians I'm Gaza for a year now. You can donate to help him here: https://btcpay.foragoodcause.xyz/apps/37W6GRGutGU9a4F61uHeFcjHFyQv/crowdfund

Twitter verification here: https://x.com/BTCPalestine/status/1851774634410066184?t=koXYAvbCqoWT2tF6227bgA&s=19

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/what-ark-could-potentially-learn-from-lightning

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/upside-down-world-spooks-are-heroes-heroes-are-spooks

Saylor is a spook.

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/to-succeed-bitcoin-needs-something-new-not-more-of-the-same

https://bitcoinmagazine.com/takes/shinobi-gaza-is-the-most-powerful-demonstration-of-bitcoin-since-wikileak

Berlin is where real Bitcoiners are.

Data markets that directly sell information to consumers have broken incentives. They incentivize data brokers to prioritize preserving what is valuable in the moment to consumers, rather than what is truly valuable to preserve over the long term.

The idea of being able to mutate the contents of a Torrent while still having it be indexable and findable through a static identifier has lots of potential uses.

Zeronet, while a horrible UX, has some concepts worth revisiting.

How does media embedding actually getting handled and delivered on Nostr these days? Is it still external hosts and redirects or are relays serving content directly now?

https://open.spotify.com/album/1wOiuWSlK5pQdpQP8VgH6F?si=0hWXEqd0RzK7VRCnnCyztw

So I have been thinking lately, and I'm pretty confident at this point that a relatively private overlay protocol can be done on top of Nostr for people in dangerous situations. It would not be cleanly interoperable with conventional users.

Who knows someone who works at TSA?

Has anyone built something along the lines of a solomining collective with BitAxes along the lines of groups who play the lottery together?

If anyone has any kind of experience or resources regarding different chemical compositions of printer inks, would appreciate a brain to pick.

I wonder what effect federated bonds would have in the world of scientific research. Bond some portion of research grants and timelock them. Path A, researcher can claim funds after timelock. Path B, funds can be claimed by oracles and paid out to anyone proving research fraud.

What is the answer to the increasing tribalism and desire to simply reinforce biases? Circulating truthful information is an important piece of the answer, but people need to be willing to absorb it.