Dr. Whom

proof of dork

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@allenf32 I’m not sure about that. These people still believe “good people on both sides” and such. They really do reside in their own reality.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@LaurentMT @adam3us They will be usurped eventually by economically rational pools?

[Pierre Rochard @BitcoinPierre]

If you zoom in really closely at the bottom left, you'll see that this is officially the worst performing #Bitcoin halving cycle (so far).

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@still_darling מזל שלפחות הספקת לחסן אותו נגד צהבת B ביום היוולדו. עכשיו הוא לגמרי יכול לחלוק מחטים עם זונות.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@lporiginalg ⬆️ When you’ve had more inches of 🍆 in you than your height.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@danielberzani תצעד קצת יותר מהר עד שתשיג אותה ואז תלחש לה באוזן ״אני לא אנס״ כדי שלא תדאג.
👍

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@Truthcoin SoV is not determined by protocol max supply.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@theficouple @lindsaystamp3 Bitcoin is up 4 billion percent in 15 years. Are you dumb?

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@SMB_Attorney

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

אני לא ממש מבין את הויכוח והדילמה בנושא הזה. אין שום משמעות להפסקת הלחימה. אפשר להתחיל אותה מחדש תמיד. כפי שחמאס עשה באוקטובר. אז מה יש להפסיד אם מקבלים את החטופים בחזרה בתמורה להפסקת לחימה אם אח״כ פשוט נכנסים מחדש לסיים את העבודה?

[מואיז הקטן ® @LittleMoiz]

היום מציינים חצי שנה לטבח ה-7 באוקטובר.

נניח ויש הצעה:
שחרור כל החטופים, כולל החיילים - תמורת הפסקת המלחמה.

אתם בעד או נגד.?

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@zippy24816 I’m waiting for the PoW fork.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

מזל שיש את ביבי אחרת השיט הזה היה בראש מעייני השמאל הישראלי כנראה.

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Scotland's Hate Crime Act comes into effect today. Women gain no additional protections, of course, but well-known trans activist Beth Douglas, darling of prominent Scottish politicians, falls within a protected category. Phew! 1/11

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

Someone making clothes out of dollars and using money as confetti - quick! Let’s change the monetary system to fight this evil in a way that makes it slightly more inconvenient to use dollars as clothes.

[Hardfork Mechanic @GrassFedBitcoin]

Someone paying $389 to move $1.94.

547,000 sats to move 2730 sats.

Why?

Because this has nothing to do with Bitcoin and doesn't make any sense from the network's perspective.

People who take comfort that behaviour will remain predictable thanks to economically rational decision making need to know it goes both ways when you start taking in external factors.

You have to do it with miners too.

If a miner can make more money in ways that have nothing to do with bitcoin then you can no longer rely on simple assumptions like "miners will do X because if they don't then they will make less than a miner who does"

The simple example I've used many times is compliance.

If you have a choice between expensive legal battles and exclusion informed by government blacklists (i.e censorship) then it's economically rational to do what's economically irrational.

"You left $500 in TX fees on the table! Why?"

"Because our lawyers advised us that this would save us several million dollars."

We have a case-study of this exact scenario with Wasabi Wallet.

So if this is true, what does it have to do with spam? From a miner's perspective, spam is simply a free lunch.

What's the downside?

The issue is we've been standing on shaky ground when it comes to the assumptions we've made about the choices of miners. Myself included.

It turns out there are instances when economic rationality works *against* the interests of the wider network. It's obvious, but apparently we're all surprised that this it the case, or straight up in denial about it.

Spam is that exact scenario. Blocks are far larger than was ever supposed to be possible with the introduction of witness-discounted data. We see block after block at what was meant to be a theoretical maximum of just under 4MB.

There is no room for interpretation. This is simply harmful and the result of a nasty attack.

The entire basis on which the blocksize wars were fought was that encumbering nodes with way more data would lead to centralization. (Along with a host of other issues, like centralization of mining & pools).

The simple solution is that it needs to stop. Blocks cannot be stuffed with arbitrary data placed there by ambivalent miners.

The way this stops is as a natural extension of a bitcoin community that recognizes attacks and responds accordingly.

It means using node software that isn't designed to hurt its users which is already happening with migration away from Core to Knots. The most popular plug-n-play nodes have all begun offering this.

They did not this time last year.

It means miners choosing pools that at least give them the option of not participating in the attack -> currently well under 1% of the hashrate, 6 months ago not even an option. Hard for me to talk about because obviously I'm employed by the pool in question.

It means people who never mined doing it for the first time.

And mostly it means maintaining an understanding of what makes bitcoin bitcoin. That in itself has always been enough to evict crypto scammers to something other than Bitcoin. Those who wanted to turn it into "paypal 2.0" with the same disregard and contempt for nodes that the spam apologists display now forked themselves off to bcash and craigcoin.

The one thing that will *not* solve this problem is high transaction fees. This is an argument made by those who at least understand an attack when they see it, but are in denial about what surviving it actually involves.

Throughout the last few months the conversation has rapidly progressed and the tide has been turning.

I am under no illusions that this is an easy fix, but that is because of the nature of politics and how much larger the ecosystem is now.

But it's also just history repeating itself.

Bitcoin keeps having to fight the same battles again and again. Always in service of importance of being able to run *and use* a node, affordably and trivially, by complete noobs.

To maintain decentralization.

To resist the corrupting of what we have.

Bitcoin is money. Other features cannot come at the expense of that.

OP RETURN wars, bcash, segwit2x, shitcoins, coloredcoins, hostile BIPs, malicious devs....

We've done it a million times before. Every single time the "laser-eyed toxic maxis" win.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@maxipleb safety. still hard to ascertain purity because of prohibition.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@Antonio82687742 @AzamR59596357 Isn’t a raft the last place you’d want to be during a hurricane? 🤔

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@Elky_weiss רגע איך התנך שרד אלפי שנים בלי מימון מדינה לפני הקמת ישראל?

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

Ordinal are fucking stupid.
NFTs are for lease intelects.
This is objectively awesome.
Deal.

[mononaut @mononautical]

Would the miscreant responsible for this like to come forward?!?
https://t.co/Ue1IW4WSqF

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@brockm Least bad option 🤷🏼‍♂️

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@sivori Bitcoin obviates the need for a prenup.

[Dr. Whom @clevernym]

@_sha265 צריך לקבל שלילה על שימוש לא נכון במים.