"@LukeDashjr is the 10th man from world war Z. i want him to keep doing that for the robustness of bitcoin. his job (self chosen mission in fact like Rorschach in watchmen) is to do things his way and be immune to group think; and he's really good at that.
I dont have to agree with Luke to love that he is out there doing 10th man things with a genius level IQ and a mission, doing his contrarian thing. #bitcoin is safer for it."
- Adam Back, December 9, 2023
"Pro-tip for people arguing consensus logic with @LukeDashjr introspect carefully your logic... He's got a near 100% hit rate on the topic, if you're arguing against him it's almost certain you are in fact, wrong. cf consensus critical data being on chain and non consensus not."
- Adam Back, February 14, 2025
What happened to Adam? Luke didn't change. Adam did.
What happened?
https://t.co/2PN5MS6ciA
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The CAPTURE series doesn't describe a hack or a coup. It describes something slower and harder to see: a permissionless project steered through patient, institutional attrition.
There's a name for that playbook. Fabian strategy.
Here is how the record matches it, point for point.
Spam on Bitcoin — Last 7 days:
~70% of all transactions are non-monetary
473.95 MB of non-monetary data (50.8% of Tx vsize) permanently stored on every full node
Bitcoin is being bloated by non-monetary traffic. BIP-110 is the cure.
Run Knots + BIP-110
"stop being retarded"
"AI conspiracy confirmation slop"
Adam keeps bad faith crusading for people to trust him and not verify.
Why he is acting like this? I don't know, but he seems desperate.
If you want to verify instead of trusting this former legend, now husk of a man, head over to https://t.co/zk4Z2HrhA3
It's all sourced.
In LONDON, an African attacks a WHITE man & the Police grab & arrest the WHITE guy.
Then an overweight officer sits on his legs.
Traitors protect foreign invaders.
The Muslim Mayor & The Labor Party must be removed 😡
Muslims should hold no power anywhere in the West.
Islam is incompatible with the West.
The level of disingenuity on display from people discrediting me and my writing reminds me a lot of what I received from Craig, Kurt, Calvin and their minions for five years. 🤷♂️
My long time friend @hodlonaut is probably the most high-integrity person I've ever known.
When Faketoshi sued him, he could have surrendered and not have half a decade of his life stolen. Instead he chose to fight, because he knew it was the right thing to do.
Over the last couple of months, he's poured his heart and soul into exposing the corruption and woke-creep in Bicoin Core.
Stuff that my other candidate for highest-integrity-person-I-know, @jonatack, became a whistleblower about back in January.
Btw, neither @hodlonaut nor @jonatack have ever sought fame or even public recognition, afaik.
IMO, every bitcoiner on Earth should at least be interested in what's been revealed in @hodlonaut's articles, which are all based on public information.
What I find so baffling is the number of public bitcoiners outside of Core that are so quick to come to Core's defense and call the articles "slop" and "clickbait."
The way I see it, these people fall into three main categories;
1) people who don't know @hodlonaut
2) people with a vested interest in spam/scam/crypto businesses
3) cowards
I know a lot of people personally that I really hope fall under category 1), because the backlash @hodlonaut is getting from simply trying to expose a handful of uncomfortable truths is truly depressing to see.
DYOR, but don't dismiss others' R as slop before you've done your own!
I’m not employed by anyone.
I have no sponsors.
I’m not invested in anything else than BTC.
I don’t give a fuck about being shunned by influencers and talking heads.
I just want Bitcoin to succeed in separating money and state.
That’s why I support BIP-110
CAPTURE
An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended.
Article Three: The Merge
https://t.co/UROGy2Czo0
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Of the 130M taproot OP_IFs on-chain, 99.6% of them are hardcoded never to run. They are of the form:
If 0 = 1, execute X
Zero never equals one, so X is never intended to be executed
If taproot is designed to execute code, OP_IF is 99.6% a system hack
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