For anyone interested about the truth: Adam Back is absolutely, overtly and veritably lying about me *ever* supporting BIP110, or even being "a fence sitter" about it.
I have always strongly, clearly and unequivocally opposed any similar fork proposal since the very earliest suggestions.
I have always been, and remain, consistently opposed to:
- using consensus rules to tackle specific types of onchain spam,
- defensively addressing any kind of "illegal data" moral panic in any possible way (mempool policies included),
- enforcing any controversial consensus change (including the ones I agree with, unlike this one) without clear full-ecosystem agreement.
It's a bit unfortunate that a very influential voice in the industry is lying about me, since I have a smaller reach to debunk him. Maybe some of you can help me by spreading the correction. Thanks.
There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam.
BIP 110 turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions.
That precedent is the danger. We should save our energy for threats that really matter. $BTC
"The purpose of a system is what it does. There is, after all, no point in claiming that the purpose of a system is what it consistently fails to do."
- attributed to Stafford Beer
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#kalshi as with all #PredictionMarkets is In a regulatory loophole within an extremely heavily taxed and excessively regulated industry that is gambling no matter what anyone calls it. It is as old as humanity and has driven people to enslave their families and descendents in long ago times. Worse, there is nothing preventing cheating in prediction markets. Cheating, the only activity as old as gambling, with the same power to drive humans to extremes. So Kalshi presents the ability to gamble and cheat, and the loophole allows all of it in every state. So of course it is number 1 by a mile and will keep growing as long as society steps aside and lets these horrific base human weaknesses run roughshod over all and any logical, moral and decent challenge.
Bitcoin Knots. Luke example 1/1000. Should make a series. I'll do 1 update per day.
There will come a day when this guy decides Bitcoin goes against God and just decides to push a Knots update that wipes out everyones funds.
A stunning piece of engineering!!
1X unveils the new humanoid hand for NEO
- 25 degrees of freedom: 22 fully actuated in the fingers and palm, plus 3 at the wrist.
- The DoF are distributed anatomically rather than evenly, deliberately biased toward a thumb that genuinely opposes the fingers.
- In-house tendon-driven, quasi-direct-drive running low gear ratios of ~5:1 to 15:1 vs the typical 100:1–200:1.
- Motors live in the forearm and pull tendons through the wrist. This keeps the hand light and its inertia low while producing high forces.
Sensing
- All 25 DoF are natively force-controlled and fully backdrivable. Every joint doubles as a force sensor.
- Very important, closed-loop proprioception: it always knows its own pose and effort without looking.
- Tactile skin across the fingertips and surfaces measuring contact and shear. This helps with adaptive gripping in real time.
Safety and durability
- IP68 waterproof and food-safe, so it can wash its own hands.
- Compliant by construction: the low gear ratios, tendon drive, and low distal inertia let external impacts safely backdrive the fingers. It yields when hit by a hammer or caught in a drawer.
- Full finger assemblies validated to millions of cycles.
Manufacturing
- Deep vertical integration: in-house motors, custom electronics, and tendon systems.
- Hundreds built already, with capacity to produce 10,000 hands this year.
"An API to the Physical World"
You can't preach "decentralization" out one side of your mouth and flip the default on your main pool endpoint to signal BIP 110 without asking. You spent years bragging about how Ocean gives miners "sovereign" blocks through DATUM. You said you're only a miner if you're building your own templates. But now the default on the regular Stratum pool is switching to signal the soft fork on July 15th? Lol.. That's you setting policy for everyone.
This is also exactly what I've been telling everyone for years. Ocean spent all that time larping about "sovereign" miners building their own templates, acting like they were the decentralization kings. I kept saying there's nothing technical stopping them from changing their policy whenever they feel like it.... And here we are today..
When you log into Ocean, by default you're now signaling for BIP 110. They are constructing the block for you. You have to actively opt out if you don't want to signal. That's their right, it's their business, it's their pool. But let's not pretend this is the same story they were selling.
Ocean needs new leadership
Thread: @Lukedashjr Liarposting By The Numbers
Account-wide since July 2012:
- 159,875 total posts
- 0.95% (1526) of all posts contain “liar”
- first “liar” tweet: February 4, 2017
- highest LPM (liars per month): 97 times in April 2026
- 2025: 381 “liar” posts
- 2026 YTD: 339 “liar” posts
- latest 6-month rolling share: 3.09% of posts contain “liar”
Charts below 👇
> get dm
> "smelly, my dads old pc has a keygen on it. it plays really loud annoying music. was our old home pc infected with malware for many years?"
> download key gen
> look inside
> not malware
unfathomably based dad knew how to get legit warez
In the Blocksize War, I was fasinated in it from the start. While at the moment I am following this BIP-110 issue very closely, the trouble is I think I missed the start of this dispute.
When Ordinals became popular in 2023, I really did not care in the slightest. To me, this was just like waves of other stuff that had been on Bitcoin over the years. (e.g NFTs, Counterparty, Omni, images in fake public keys, LukeJr's onchain spam about Hamburgers and Yandere anime etc) I saw some people were annoyed by it, but I had no sense of the anger and passion they felt and I did not pay much attention. When the whole OP_Return issue picked up in the summer of 2025, I was pretty surpirsed by how angry this made people. Therefore, I do not tink I have been following this from the begining, which would make it harder to write a good book.
At the same time, not much has happened compared to the Blocksize War and much of what has happened feels like a pathetic joke compared to the Blocksize war. I was at the "Hong Kong agreement" in 2015. It felt like there was real tension and fear in the room. The meeting felt important. And it felt like the group there had some influence over Bitcoin. I was at an "equivalent" showdown meeting in Lugano in 2025. It felt a bit pathetic by comparison. Felt like the participants were not a significant part of the ecosystem. Some participants had other priorties. Some people wanted it to be important, but it didnt really feel important. Felt more like an act or performance. And the fundemntal issues being talked about were total nonsense. "There have never been any images in Bitcoin, but its different now because large OP_Returns are now officially sanctioned by Core, and Core is the reference client. Therefore we are in a crises". Like what the actual fuck!! That is just utter nonsense! We actually sat there and spoke about that for hours.
That said if the BIP-110 movement do eventually split off into anthother chain, I may think about a book. But I think a book is unlikley at this point