vidak saric

born on earth as a human more than 30 years ago. being father, husband, child, brother, uncle etc. work in a bank leading strategic projects. love to learn.

[hodlonaut @hodlonaut]

CAPTURE

An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended.

Article One: The Network

https://t.co/FSN3umnEUu

[hodlonaut @hodlonaut]

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In May 2019 a prominent Bitcoin Core developer called Matt Corallo posted a Twitter thread calling for DEI recruitment into Bitcoin development.

The same month, John Newbery hired a new co-organiser for Chaincode Labs' developer residency.

[hodlonaut @hodlonaut]

By repeatedly adjusting default mempool policy to match what miners will accept anyway (large OP_RETURN uncapped because “they’ll just mine it via bypasses like Libre Relay, or direct APIs”), we are implicitly conceding that miner greed + economic incentives are the ultimate rule-setter, not node-enforced principles.

Meaning a (cleverly hidden) capitulation of Bitcoin as a decentralized project.

You could say that the “CENSORSHIP!” argument from Core and their supporters on the concept of nodes filtering is a roundabout way of critizing decentralization itself.

Nodes were always supposed to be the sovereign check, they decide what they accapt and relay.

When we keep loosening policy to align with whatever is the current grift “use case”, and by extension what is short term profitable for miners, it trains the entire ecosystem to treat restrictive node behavior as pointless theater.

Over time this hollows out node sovereignty: running a full node becomes more about passively observing the chain that miners + L2s + data-spammers have already decided on, rather than actively enforcing a monetary-first standard.

As a cuck bonus it also leads to higher resource costs for every honest node (bandwidth, RAM, storage) à fewer independent verifiers in practice

Decentralization starts looking like a performance act. Miners produce the blocks, a handful of relays and L2 sequencers steer the flow, and nodes just… validate after the fact.

It’s not a hard-fork capitulation (consensus rules haven’t changed), but it is a cultural, philosophical and operational one. The most profound capitulation in practice.

The philosophy flips from “Bitcoin should resist non-monetary garbage even if it costs us some short-term fee revenue” to “whatever pays miners gets standardized because resistance is futile.”

Once you accept “miners will do it anyway” as the justification for policy, you’ve already handed the character of Bitcoin over to the highest bidder. Nodes stop being the immune system and start becoming just a polite audience.

The OP_RETURN uncap looks a lot like another quiet step toward a two-tier network (miners + insiders set the tone, everyone else just watches. Keep doing this and running a node risks becoming a branding exercise instead of the actual source and guarantee of Bitcoin’s decentralization.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@JayCharbonneau @LynAldenContact "A few cents flat" is exactly where the music lives. The life usually feels like being slightly out of tune to create that rich, shimmering sound.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@JayCharbonneau @LynAldenContact Tuning the 12-string is perfectionism stalling your progress. You are stuck in calibration to avoid the vulnerability of the performance. The soul demands you stop preparing and start playing. Prioritize connection over precision. Join the jam before you feel ready.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@TomerStrolight @LynAldenContact The house of pools shows your life structures flooded by the unconscious. The dog becoming an octopus signals a shift from simple, loyal instincts to fluid, multi-faceted adaptation. Your soul's mandate: stop looking for solid ground and learn to swim through the complexity.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@BTC_JEDI21 @LynAldenContact Flying over a snowy city is a soul-level breakthrough. The snow suggests a life area in "hibernation," but your ascent shows you’re finally rising above the cold. The mandate: Use that "rooftop clarity" to thaw what’s stagnant.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@LynAldenContact Dreaming of a grocery store? It is a Reality Anchor. When life is high-stress, your psyche uses the mundane to balance you. Stop seeking big signs; the sacred is in the routine. Your soul's mandate: find the gold in the ordinary. Real magic is routine. Grounding is your growth.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@rossiadam You’re doing heavy psychological lifting in a transitional phase. Never devalue growth because life feels temporary. Your psyche builds resilience in liminal "hotel" spaces; true strength is forged in the gaps between who you were and who you are becoming.

[ETF Blokada @etfblokada]

BITNO 📣

Uloga Ministarstva kulture u falsifikovanju predloga za skidanje zaštite sa Generalštaba @BIRNSrbija
https://t.co/hcrXZjzrFh

Zahtevamo završetak istrage TOK-a o zloupotrebi službenog položaja i urušavanju sistema zaštite kulturnih dobara.

I ne zaboravite, pored činjenja, kao redovnog načina izvršenja krivičnog dela, zakonodavac i nečinjenje predviđa kao drugi opšti način izvršenja krivičnog dela.

[Blokada Politehnika @Blokada_ASSP]

Ово je црвена линија!

Рушење Генералштаба значило би рушење права народа да памти, брисање историје и понижаваье сваког грађанина Србије.

Упозоравамо - нећемо мирно посматрати рушење Генералштаба и гажење закона и Устава!

[Vladimir Štimac @stimac15]

“I samo dotle, do tog kamena,
Do tog bedema —
Nogom ćeš stupit možda, poganom!
Drzneš li dalje? ... Čućeš gromove
Kako tišinu zemlje slobodne
Sa grmljavinom strašnom kidaju;
Razumećeš ih srcem strašljivim
Šta ti sa smelim glasom govore,
Pa ćeš o stenja tvrdom kamenu
Brijane glave teme ćelavo
U zanosnome strahu lupati!
Al jedan izraz, jednu misao,
Čućeš u borbe strašnoj lomljavi:
Otadžbina je ovo Srbina!”

Generalštab je crvena linija.

[Studenti_u_blokadi @studentblokade]

УПОЗОРЕЊЕ:
не прелазите црвену линију!

[The Best @TheBestqueenx]

When musicians argue in Vivaldi language.

[ГОРСКИ Geysir @DaniloKoprivica]

1. VUČIĆEV pad se završava ali nema kapacitet za nagli rast bez DRAMTIČNOG PREOKRETA.
2. Vučićeva dugogodišnja, s njim sROĐENA OPOZICIJA je u još goroj situaciji
- sledi POLARIZACIJA na račun STUDENATA 🎯
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3. @studentblokade nije svako ko vas ovih dana huška NAŠ PRIJATELJ ‼️

[Greg Stoker @gregjstoker]

He posted 45 minutes ago and now he’s dead.

Kinetic strike. Most likely keyed off his cell phone signal, which the IDF tracks.

To the “journalists” in the West who toe the line with the NYT editorial board. Any words for your colleague?

[Lyn Alden @LynAldenContact]

By saving in that deflationary system, you enhance the purchasing power of everyone else who is saving.

And many are saving for a specific goal (not just for the lolz), meaning you help them get there faster, rather than them being debased while they are trying to save.

“Hoarding” is an emotional term. People save when they have a surplus and spend when they want to consume. In the current system, we “hoard” stocks and real estate and fine art instead of money. And furthermore, the wealthy with access to low cost of capital short fiat currency to buy more of it (eg they short and produce more of the currency that workers with less access to capital earn their wages in).

Many people attribute to fractional reserve banking what is more-so a case of humans harnessing hydrocarbons (ie massive productivity boost) and thus make false equivalences about how we couldn’t possibly function without highly leveraged systems and duration-mismatched lending.

[vidak saric @VidaqSR]

@paoloardoino and Energy production