@GrassFedBitcoin BMechanic thinks Vitalik left because Bitcoin Core wouldn't let him blow up the OP_RETURN. That's nonsense. He could've forked his own implementation and set the limit wherever he wanted. He left because he wanted a pre mine. Plain and simple

Mechanic keeps framing this as us siding with MSaylor against BIP 110. That's backwards. Saylor sided with us. People have been on Spaces for the past year and a half fighting and trying to educate others about BIP444 /BIP 110. We run nodes. We set the block size limit knowing the network could safely handle up to four megabytes if spam hit. It's not about plebs or suits. It's about people who actually understand Bitcoin. When that much money's on the line, you do your homework. Saylor did his. And our arguments made more sense than Luke's.

Last year I spent a ton of time in spaces and (even a podcast) trying to educate as many Bitcoin bulls as I could about how Bitcoin works. Soft forks are usually a good thing. They let us upgrade without anyone losing money when there's enough support from economic players and hash power. But this isn't that. This is what I consider an evil soft fork. At 55% activation with only a tiny economic majority of nodes and hash power it makes Bitcoin not secure. From everything I'm seeing on X right now the ecosystem is more than ready. We're good going into August 8th. Enjoy the show.

Short story: We know a thing or two because we've seen a thing or two! Unfortunately I don't think we're getting any valuable airdrops this summer. But the entertainment is priceless.

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

Guess who wasn't exposed to Prime Trust...Cash App and River. Hard to beat Cash App's no fee no spread on purchases over $2,000. For really large purchases, I'd probably use River though since Cash App still has lower withdrawal limits.

The first time @PeterSchiff tweeted about Bitcoin was on November 14, 2013. If you had started a $1/day bitcoin DCA that day and kept it going through today, you’d now have about 3.26 BTC worth over a quarter million dollars.

A side project I've been working on is a time-lock encryption oracle that can be easily used by humans and agents. Use it for delayed data access, embargoes, sending messages/files to the future, or anything else you can come up with. 1. Timelock a file in the browser by choosing the unlock time, drag and drop the file, and click encrypt. Easy. You then have the encrypted file to share with others. 2. When a key's time arrives, anyone with the encrypted file can decrypt it in their browser. All of the above can also be done by developers and agents in the terminal using only curl and openssl, which all machines should have installed already. Get your agent to experiment with it! It works by publishing an RSA key for each minute for the next 30 days. The system then releases the corresponding private key at the top of each new minute. It was designed to be maximally simple and compatible with all systems. This is not a commercial project and is not related to @River. I just wanted something like this exist on the internet to see how people use it. Have fun!