Luke Dashjr

Roman #Catholic, husband, father of 11 children, #Bitcoin Core developer, and CTO @OCEAN_mining; INTP;
I condemn fake "Catholics", cryptobros & pedos; see link

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

I am a community-paid #Bitcoin developer working on Bitcoin Core & many other parts of Bitcoin.

You can help fund my public Bitcoin work by:
1) Sending me bitcoins - contact me for a Bitcoin address!
2) GitHub Sponsors: https://t.co/nj4ojT48Iv
3) Patreon: https://t.co/YNTwwEdK4v

[Shaun @theDAHTcom]

🏡 My neighborhood has been having a lot of burglaries. 😢

It used to be a safe place to live and raise a family. That is why I moved here in the first place. I left the city apartment because theft was becoming normalized there, everything was broken, and crime kept inflating while my hope for the future kept shrinking.

Now that my new home might be in danger, I lock the windows, add another deadbolt, and keep a firearm for self-defense. Simple deterrents.

On October 10th, the HOA security guard knocks on my door.

He tells me that determined burglars will find a way inside no matter what I do. Organized gangs can bring more manpower, better tools, and more force than any homeowner could reasonably stop.

Then he explains the new policy for the community:

“If someone is determined enough, they will get in anyway. That is why our new default policy is for every home on the block to leave its garage door open.”

Wait, WHAT?!

I push back. Surely there wasn't consensus around this new absurd policy.

He assures me the policy was endorsed by the neighborhood’s oldest locksmith and its largest landlord.

That locksmith? He never misses a chance to remind everyone that he helped invent modern locks, so apparently his judgment cannot be questioned, even when his associations with Epstein and a certain island raise questions of their own that go unanswered.

That landlord? He sighs, and says owning more homes than anyone else proves he cares more about the neighborhood than the rest of us. He leaves out that the homes are heavily leveraged, the financing products for them that he promoted are severly underwater harming millions, and that he has already started selling those properties he once called pristine assets.

But I am told not to worry.

“The experts have spoken.”

The guard explains that an open garage gives burglars a safer place to go, away from the living space, without destroying my home or injuring anyone inside.

Sure, they may steal my tools. Maybe they set up camp, light a fire to stay warm, abuse children, or use it as a cartel drug running drop point. But hopefully they stop there and do not break into the rest of the house.

Nope.

I tell him to "get the fork off my property or find out"

That is essentially the pro data storage argument for blowing OP_RETURN wide open.

Because spammers may find another method anyway, we should give them an easier, preferred place to do it and hope they do not do something worse.

Imagine when I invite others into the neighborhood or try to sell my home, I am expected to explain that vagrants, criminals, or worse have taken up residence in my open garage, and somehow assume that the home still has any value.

But not to worry. The garage is the preferred space for non residential and criminal use. I can just ignore them and prune them from my view by using the side entrance for the time being.

No! No quarter for those who wish me, my home, or my protocol harm.

Oh, and that security guard? I couldn't help but notice the nametag on his uniform:

“PaulBlart.eth”

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@TracyHoyosLopez @kotasjn @Excellion Anyone who would oppose BIP110, which makes it impossible again.

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@ocean_mining 1024 tomorrow?

[spoon @spoonmvn]

I don’t follow Luke.

I think most of the perspectives out there on him are the knee jerk reactions of midwits.

He’s a good man, in a world that is lacking in that department.

But I don’t follow him.

I hired him.

I hired him because he’s the most qualified for the job that became available when Core ignored their responsibilites.

That job? Developing and maintaining the code I run on my node.

So Luke works for me now, as he does for the thousands of others who have downloaded Knots.

That’s Bitcoin. That’s how it works. You get to choose who you hire.

But you don’t get to choose who I hire.

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@bramk @CatoTheElder17 @zndtoshi It's a consensus change. There is no middle.
You either upgrade or you URSF.

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@ndgo1370 Mandatory signaling begins in August. That guarantees 100%.

[Dathon Ohm / BIP-110 @dathon_ohm]

Since Bitcoin is decentralized, no one is in charge of defending Bitcoin, so the responsibility falls on each and every one of us.

Bitcoin's future as decentralized money depends on you.

So make this moment count. It's now or never.

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@dathon_ohm Lack of attention is no longer a valid rationale either.
It's just extreme negligence at this point.

[Dathon Ohm / BIP-110 @dathon_ohm]

As the BIP-110 movement gathers strength over the coming 23 days, these FUD attacks are going to intensify as opponents and fence-sitters start to buckle under the pressure. This means we are over the target.

[superpilotish @superpilotish]

For the Bitcoin influencers who say "I'm not for or against"

Whatever you're running on your node, that's what you're for

If you were running a node and shut it down, that's an abstention

If you've never had a node, you're just saying stuff🙄

@PupusasG @JoeyTweeets @francispouliot_ @Excellion @LukeDashjr

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@RhettEnriquez @BenJustman @ts_hodl @lukedewolf We don't need to brick them. They'd have already abandoned us.

Changing the algorithm just gets us back to a functional situation where new miners can take their place.

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@geekigai @CedYoungelman What happens when it overflows?

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@LibertyBTC @TheGuySwann Technically miners still have a few more weeks before that, but it was never "if", but "when"

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@wk057 @Singekino_Miner It's literally parallel to BIP148... we already know it will work.

[Guy Swann @TheGuySwann]

Since i feel like we're all back together and I have decent connections to most opinions on this topic, I'm curious...

Do you support the BIP110 soft fork?

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@RicardoVintem @dathon_ohm Since the community adopted it

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@Excellion @giacomozucco Giacomo just assumes because they're standing next to each other that they're friends again

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@BTCpragmatist @asanoha_gold @stephanlivera What sponsors?

Nobody said they were stepping away. Temporary is the nature of the softfork.

[Luke Dashjr @LukeDashjr]

@Excellion Then don't try to force terrible things on me