IslandHODL ⚡️

European bitcoin normie environmentalist.

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[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

Listening to @thetrocro on @Dennis_Porter_ and also the @progressivebtcr episode with @resistancemoney I made a little calculator so you can work out how much mining your BTC incentivises.

Calculator here:
https://t.co/1yuxUtcYcY

Their whitepaper here: https://t.co/T5fY4UwtAh

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@bayemalou1 @johnsweeneyroar @Nigel_Farage There was a documentary about all this 10 years ago.

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@jyn_urso Was it the space lasers?

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@BradleyMines @jyn_urso @aantonop I no longer have an account. But I can use DuckDuckGo

[Liz Webster @LizWebsterSBF]

🚨Sir Ian McKellen is quoting Thomas More, writing in 1517 during anti-immigrant riots in London 🔥 when terrified foreigners were dragged from their homes and blamed for every social ill.

More asked the mob a simple question:

“What would you do, if you were the stranger?”

500 years later, those same words cut straight through the noise.

Because today we are again stirring hatred, again blaming the vulnerable, again pretending cruelty is “strength”.

If the great humanists of the 16th century could see the danger…
why can’t our politicians in 2025?

History is speaking louder than ever.
The only question is: are we listening?

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@peterktodd @jyn_urso How’s that ‘libertarian’ government working out for you?

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@BradleyMines @jyn_urso @aantonop I think he is active on patreon, or was last I checked.

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@MarioRo27568313 @Ben_deWaal @inessafights @jyn_urso Better that garbage sits on nodes than in the UTXO set.

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@jyn_urso @grok @BodiCan35 Are we climate finance punks now?

[Bitcoin Isn't About You @brian_trollz]

@mikeinspace This last crop of Bitcoiners is legitimately retarded. We need to figure out whats in the soil, or water, or whatever before we harvest the next one.

[Gold Leader @GoldLeader89]

If you’re mad the defaults in your favorite software are changing, but you still have the knob to change it back 👇

[Dr. Margot Paez @jyn_urso]

I stand with Gloria.

[Dr. Margot Paez @jyn_urso]

Pleased to announce that one of my bitcoin mining research papers has been accepted to the International Conference of Applied Energy! Excited to be able to share a bit of knowledge about bitcoin with nocoiner academics.

[Antoine Poinsot @darosior]

Trolls have been going after Gloria hard. She’s human, and it must take a toll.

If you want to share support or remind her trolls don’t speak for most Bitcoiners, email me and I’ll forward it: Antoine [at] Chaincode [dot] com.

[Bitcoin Isn't About You @brian_trollz]

I'm done. This disgusting scumbag accusation originates from @grassfedbitcoin. While he paints himself as victim for such offensive things as... *check notes*.. responding to his wife in a public conversation, he spread nasty disgusting rumors like this in private.

[L0la L33tz @L0laL33tz]

In leaked messages to The Rage, Knots maintainer Luke Dashjr is proposing a Bitcoin hardfork to implement a trusted committee that enables the retroactive altering of data on the blockchain.

All relevant messages we received are contained in the article for you to read for yourself.

This phrase has been greatly inflated over the years, but what Luke is proposing here is an attack on Bitcoin.

I‘ve stayed out of the Knots v Core debate until now bc I can sympathize with not turning BTC into ETH -If you want to do JPEG stuff, there‘s other chains for that, and the only reason to use Bitcoin for it is to astroturf off of its value.

On the other hand, its also been clear that filters alone do not work. This is what Luke essentially concedes in the leaked messages. Keeping JPEGs off of Bitcoin can only be done if the entire network adopts his changes - and there‘s hardly another way to do this than by decree.

No matter what side you stand on in this debate, I hope that we can agree that proposing the implementation of sich a decree in the form of a hardfork that would implement a *trusted committee* with the power to *retroactively alter the blockchain* goes too far.

Not only does it effectively erase Bitcoin‘s censorship resistance - it would turn Bitcoin into a permissioned network, and potentially make node runners face criminal liability for not complying with the committee‘s proposed removals.

As Luke stated himself, lawyers are already working on public letters to advocate for the sanctioning of illicit content on Bitcoin - Letters which Luke is involved in behind the scenes, but feels are better to stay out of publicly on advice of counsel.

Let me be very clear: if Luke‘s hardfork is implemented, it opens the door for law enforcement to request the removal of other data on the Blockchain, making the implementation of KYC/AML technically feasible.

I hope that publishing this article will do two things. First, I hope that it makes clear to the people running Knots what the future of Bitcoin is they are supporting.

Second, I hope that Core developers will begin to consider the opinions of the people who chose to run Knots. If anything, a majorly harmful hardfork activation should be grounds enough to take their concerns seriously. Burning Bitcoin to the ground over JPEGs is not worth it.

[Keith Edwards @keithedwards]

Texas pastor @jamestalarico flips the script on anti-trans attacks: “we’re focused on the wrong 1%.”

[Claude Taylor @TrueFactsStated]

This is 8 minutes long. It’s twitter so few will watch the whole thing-but I did and I now have a much better understanding of what motivated Tyler Robinson.

[₿𝔢𝔫 ∞/2.1Psat ⚡️💊🧠📚🌍🌏Ⓐ🏴🌹 @Ben_deWaal]

@EnjoyingBitcoin @clarkmoody @GrassFedBitcoin @LukeDashjr I run a node and will not be switching to Knots. It achieves nothing useful and causes several minor problems.
I don’t care if others do (the problems are minor enough not to advocate against the freedom of choice), but I certainly won’t.
Your statements about Core are incorrect.

[IslandHODL ⚡️ @IslandHodl]

@FumbleBTC @PeterMcCormack @TriggeredByLTFC @markstephenson2 @TRobinsonNewEra I used to think Bedford > Luton cos Bedford didn’t have a Yaxley Lennon. Not anymore. At least Luton has an airport so you can GTFO

[Hawkins FC @fc_hawkins]

@PeterMcCormack @TRobinsonNewEra Absolute joke, interviewing that racist criminal. Will never go to another real bedford game