hodlonaut_80_IQ Pleb Slop Slinger.

#Bitcoin Citizen Journalist. Always looking to learn. Speaking my mind. Behind citade @ctdl21

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

I spent three and a half months investigating and writing the CAPTURE series. Three articles, hundreds of sources, a documented record of how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended.

That work is done. The articles are published at https://t.co/zk4Z2HrhA3. They will be there long after the current news cycle.

I did what I felt I had to do. What people do with the record now is up to them. I can put the work into the world. I can't make anyone read it.

I'm stepping back from social media for the summer, maybe longer. Quality time with my family is the only thing scarcer than bitcoin.

To everyone who read the articles carefully and engaged with the evidence: thank you.

I love Bitcoin and the freedom it promises. That's why I wrote these.

My BIP-110 node will keep running.

See you on the other side.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

How absolutely refreshing that the bitcoin protocol does not give a single fuck about what price clown world puts on bitcoin. No measures are being implemented. No rescue packages. Just adherence to the protocol. One block at a time. Like a psychopath.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

«Three months ago, I was not running a Bitcoin node at all.

Today, I run two Knots BIP110 nodes.

That did not happen because I needed another technical hobby. It happened because I saw the hydra, and once I saw it, I could not unsee it.

I saw how easily ordinary users can be moved by defaults, language, process and expert culture.

I saw that Bitcoin does not defend itself as an abstract idea.

It is defended by people who decide to participate, verify, enforce and refuse.

My contribution is small, but it is real: two nodes, two boundaries, two signals.»

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

Built a new dedicated node from scrap parts. @start9labs is great, first time trying it out. 🔥

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

@brian_trollz I answered your concern tactfully, and even changed the sentence to allow your estrogen levels to lower from current critical levels.

Was the drop in core nodes starting with the OP_RETURN drama also a sybil attack btw?

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

@BitMEXResearch @adam3us In the embedded screenshot of the irc logs

[Shadow of Ezra @ShadowofEzra]

Mark Levin says it’s time to ban “Nazis” and “Jihadis” from social media, saying free speech has gone too far and is “overprotected.”

He wants them immediately removed from all platforms because they are “inciting” violence.

Levin is trying to put people who disagree with his politics in the same category as an assassin.

“Get off our platform.”

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

I will readily admit it brings me joy to see gravity deal with the scammy turd called etherium.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

@adam3us

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

Etherium having a great week!

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

This is why I am a bitcoiner.

This is why I was motivated to fight for Bitcoin.

[MaxisClub @MaxisClub]

Absolutely, can you imagine a world without principles? it would be a world no one would want to live in, it’s very easy to say that bitcoin doesn’t need principles, when in fact it works precisely because of its principles and positive incentives. It’s like people who defend communism, but only because they don’t live in a communist country.

those who say bitcoin has no principles are usually the ones who have none themselves.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

Plebs matter.

Principles matter.

Relativize everything, and evil no longer needs to hide. It simply rebrands itself as another valid choice, even preferable because of very technical handwaving by experts on a payroll.

Observe how angry these facts make some people.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Needs to be above zero

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

How many Bitcoin plebs were in the Epstein emails?

[Beautyon @Beautyon_]

Only one person on this list is using their real name; all the others are anons.

Do you really believe that in a system where there is proper accountability, that the real names of these people would not be attached to their GitHub accounts or whatever they're using to identify themselves?

Furthermore, there are no transcripts of the "offline" discussions they've had as a group on these changes. What trillion dollar network would permit these people to conspire in private to change bitcoin's purpose?

It's insane.

Any psychologically normal person looking at how Bitcoin Governance works would be terrified by this, especially when they delve into the backgrounds of these people, and example of which you've just seen with the Epstein Event.

No one knows who these people have been talking to or what they've agreed in private, and only a completely Mind Blind delusionist would claim, "all the discussion is on the mailing list", which is exactly what they will say to counter there has been a conspiracy.

For the Mind Blind, only what they can see is real, and if they were not in the Star Chamber themselves, there is no Star Chamber. If there are no Epstein Files, then they believe no one knows they were on Epstein Island.

The lesson here is painful, but Bitcoiners have to accept it. Ossification is the only way Bitcoin can survive the next Gloria, or the next $ack_list_member and the future "maintainers" (more accurately named "Steering Group").

You will say, "But how can Bitcoin evolve?".

First of all, you are deceived if you believe in "Evolution". Mathematics doesn't "Evolve"; its properties are fixed and immutable, meaning they don't change over time.

Once the software that delivers the behavior of the Bitcoin network's functions is completed, that code and the feature set must be frozen to protect all the users of Bitcoin. If this is not embedded into the culture, bitcoin cannot survive, because the next "Gloria" or "Peter Todd" or "Epstein Island Incel" will inevitably emerge from the ether in the future to destroy bitcoin.

The Epstein Event could not have come at a better time for bitcoin; because it is taking down the arguments for increasing OP_RETURN by association. It is also unleashing a permanent wave of paranoia about who is contributing to the development of bitcoind.

I have no doubt that there are people who will demand background checks of anyone contributing to bitcoin. That makes perfect sense after this debacle. Anon culture has no place in the development of a trillion dollar financial network, and no sane person would accept it. If the normies ever found out about this...

You can guess the result.

And the Bitcoin Cult counter to this, that developers putting their identities "out there" puts them at risk is Bitcoin Cult gibberish, and will help ossification.

Developers of the reference client should be absolutely terrified at all times, not that they are personally at risk, but that what they're doing could damage the network.

The people who signed off on OP_RETURN blithely did so without any fear of any consequences of any kind. and since some of them don't even own bitcoin, they did not even have the self interest incentive to keep the network clean.

The way bitcoin's Reference Client has been managed is now a part of Bitcoin's history, and it is a good thing that that is over. Obviously something must be put in place to replace it; what that should look like is up for anyone to offer a suggestion on, but one thing is for sure; weirdos who are not aligned with Bitcoin's purpose, who don't own bitcoin, who think it is "An Experiment", if allowed to tinker, will bring about another major threat event.

And who needs that?

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

Many people are angry that principled pleb maxis are taking a stand for Bitcoin.

Because they are afraid it hurts the price.

Pathetic.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

@GhostofMapl It’s nothing but a very predictable immune reaction.

[hodlonaut #BIP-110 @hodlonaut]

BIP-110 is nothing but a very predictable immune reaction.

Bitcoin, the idea, is sick.