Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷

#Honeybadger & amazed husband of @Ond1n3🧡 • #Bitcoin and its PoW Chain • Building @initiativeBTC @2B4CH @Satpile @PenduleSatoshi @Pax_Bitcoinica

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

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1) Learn from others' mistakes and yours

https://t.co/1IsJQx48nk

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”

–George Santayana,
The Life of Reason, 1905

[Mr.Hodldamus @MrHodl]

I summon you

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@nikitabier I mean, seriously, WTAF is this absolute 💩 and why is it in my feed?

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

I'm already tired of videos showing a person talking in front of a screenshot of text, with a flickering bad green screen effect.

This is about the replace the videos of people filling their rants in their cars.

🤦‍♂️

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

As it's X's new feature, the algo keeps pushing these terrible videos, and I keep muting ugly narcissistic randos... Well done destroying Twitter a little bit further @nikitabier👌

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@JoeNakamoto @grok What's the non-subjective definition of "dictator"?

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@decentmoney2009 Why?

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@PubKey "Water is wet and salt is salty." 🤡

(Ignoring all context is "pretty simple" indeed.)

[Marius Off🔗Chain @mariusoffchain]

Puisque vous avez été plusieurs à vous plaindre de la loooongueur de mon article sur Spark, j’ai ajouter un lecteur audio

J’ai fais la même chose pour les articles sur Bitcoin, Lightning et Ark

Bonne écoute 👂

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@mariusoffchain Merci, c'est bien pratique de pouvoir "ECOUTER L'ACRTICLE" 😉

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

Cold War 2.0 Can you see it yet?

[Reuters @Reuters]

China's rare earths dominance is as much about research as it is refineries. There are more labs dedicated to rare earths in China than anywhere else. Beijing’s new passport restrictions keep that expertise at home, a Reuters investigation found https://t.co/RqYMfkxNhp

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@MrHodl Share one

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

👌

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

@PetinaVox With the money we don’t steal.

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

🔥

[Nayib Bukele @nayibbukele]

@Countrywritin @mrs_hercules Medications. Procedures. Treatments. Surgeries. Even cancer care.

Free for every patient.

You just show up at the door.

And as you can see in the video, the surgeries are as advanced as those performed in the world's leading hospitals.

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@renewableworks @SecScottBessent @POTUS Why?

[Mr.Hodldamus @MrHodl]

Some Alpha for the kids:

The block size wars didn't start in 2017. They started years earlier when Gavin Andresen began pushing for 20 to 30 megabyte blocks. A lot of us pushed back hard because we believed Bitcoin needed to stay small and permissionless. We wanted anyone to be able to run a node over Tor or even broadcast transactions over ham radio if they had to.

By 2016 the Hong Kong Agreement was made. Miners and some developers agreed to activate SegWit first followed by a 2 megabyte hard fork. Luke Dashjr wrote the code but Bitcoin Core refused to merge it into their repository. Jihan Wu got so angry about this that he posted his infamous "fuck your mother" tweet.

Miners then refused to signal for SegWit even though Bitcoin Core 0.13.1 had been running on roughly 90 percent of the network for almost a year. On top of that Bitmain and ViaBTC were mining empty blocks using covert ASICBoost while fees were going through the roof. We wanted malleability fixed and Lightning to move forward but we were being hijacked by Jihan Wu. That is why BIP 148 was justified.

The whole point of BIP 148 was that economic nodes were going to activate SegWit on August 1st no matter what. We had overwhelming industry support and nearly 90 percent of nodes were already running the software. The high threshold was only there as a backup in case miners changed their mind. We never expected it to reach that level because economic consensus was already there.

Compare that to today. BIP 110 does not have anywhere near that kind of economic support across the ecosystem. The people behind it claim they are being censored but the truth is most people simply think the idea is bad. Activating a soft fork like this with only 55 percent hash power would be an attack on Bitcoin. You cannot compare the two situations.

Both the big blockers back then and the BIP 110 crowd now made the same mistake. They have their own implementation called Bitcoin Knots, yet they remain obsessed with trying to control what Bitcoin Core does. No one can force users to run any specific version of Bitcoin. The software is backwards compatible for a reason. Users decide what they run, and unfortunately for the BIP 110 crowd they dont have a monopoly on "users".

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@Grobatt Très cool ta vidéo!

[Coinjoined Chris ⚡ @coinjoined]

Imagine trying to hack someone and getting trapped in an 87-minute discussion about Bitcoin insurance first.

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

Bitcoin bears be like

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@Protos Slow news day huh?

[Yves Bennaïm 🌿 ∞/21ᴍ 🇨🇭🇧🇹🇳🇷 @ZLOK]

@Protos "...that’s paid Strike’s Jack Mallers to be its spokesperson" isn't he the CEO, or is it sarcasm?