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[Snowman @ESBC12]

@ToneVays Maybe that´s a good time to open source it.

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@LektorThaulow Kan anbefale Starlink, så lenge du kan gi antennen fri sikt.

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@enur72 it seems like this reply aged well

[Snowman @ESBC12]

I think that the marked will need a few weeks to absorb this, and price will start to move upwards. We could all wish for a more decentralized bitcoin, but I believe this USAF would have moved bitcoin in the other direction (more centralized). No one has captured or taken over Bitcoin. The proposed change did not have consensus.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

It wasn’t supported by miners across the world, by exchanges or other high-volume nodes, by most developers, or by most investors, influencers, etc.

It just didn’t reach consensus, plain and simple (which is normal for a fork less than a year old; it’s in a long line).

It’s not as though there was any pressure on miners. There was no substantial “other side” that miners won against. A few thousand people running low-volume nodes doesn’t constitute consensus, and so the fork wasn’t successful.

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@hodlonaut To me, it seems like the users (nodes) did not want this either

[Michael Saylor @saylor]

@hodlonaut No. I’m saying virtually all the miners, exchanges, custodians, wallets, holders, markets, and economic infrastructure chose Bitcoin over BIP-110. Nobody controls Bitcoin. Consensus emerges from the network, and the network has spoken.

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

The issue is that all of that data still winds up in Bitcoin. Op return isn’t even the cheapest place to put it, it’s just historically the least harmful place to put it (that’s why it exists).

All of this fork discussion is basically a debate about which bucket to put spam into, since there isn’t a proposal on the table to materially reduce spam or materially increase the cost of the cheapest method to spam.

That’s why I didn’t bother to talk about it over the past year. And I’d see tweets regularly tagging me asking why I’m not talking about it, people claiming it’s the biggest thing and I’m not talking about it (it’s not the biggest thing. I had little reason to talk about a fork with low consensus that doesn’t materially reduce spam.) I have people emailing asking me if Bitcoin is going to die if a fork that just mildly re-arranges where spam goes doesn’t pass (because they somehow think it stops spam, and its leading proponents have called spam an emergency in need of a rapid fix).

Then I’m asked about it on a podcast. So I explained that it’s not an emergency, the fork doesn’t materially stop spam, it comes with some trade-offs, bitcoin is fine, it’s always worth exploring ways to optimize bitcoin for the future, etc.

Then I get dozens of replies from fork proponents asking if I’m compromised, why do I like spam, why don’t I want to stop spam, etc. Most of them (not all) have playground-grade ad hominems attached as well. It’s mostly not their fault though; they’ve been whipped into a frenzy by people saying if they don’t pass this fork then bitcoin dies.

I support people trying to fork if they want to. Bitcoin needs market tests once in a while. But if people ask me my opinion about this fork’s technical merits, the marketing around it, or its probability of becoming consensus, I’ll give my opinion.

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@ToneVays I do not understand the concept of higher importance of nodes with higer economic activity? If im a big buyer from a miner; How does the miner know my node(s)?

[Tone Vays @ToneVays]

A legit & serious poll, I honestly want to know:
👇👇👇
Will it make you happy to stack cheep sats, but in the process Wall Street, Michael Saylor & all the Bitcoin Holding companies capitulate by having to be forced liquidated.

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@ToneVays @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @jimmysong The best thing about this whole Bitcoin Core controversy is that @ToneVays is summoning the crews from those epic podcasts back in the day

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@PeterSweden7 While annoying, this is probably done to reduce plastic waste in the nature, and not to fight climate change.

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 Who’s filming that?

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@engineers_feed Syl

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@LynAldenContact Got bass?
https://t.co/bPWWvQC0Di

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@elonmusk @Tesla When Norway, @elonmusk ?

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@elonmusk When in Norway, @elonmusk ?

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@elonmusk When in Norway @elonmusk ?

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@elonmusk I think there are commercially available SaaS systems that can cover most government needs with little or no adaptation. Many of them made in the US.

[Snowman @ESBC12]

@elonmusk When Norway, @elonmusk ?