Well this is just great, never had so many open orders, worked 14 hours per day for two full weeks. Reordered parts worth thousands. And any and all motivation I had left was just suffocated by compliance bullshit. Most of my customers are spread out over the entire EUDSSR. I jumped through every fucking goddamn hoop they threw at me. Built everything myself, powered through as a one man team, just for them to snip a finger and cut me off of my customerbase I've built for years the moment it looks like I could finally make a decent living off of this. You cannot fathom the amount of hate I feel right now. Fuck this shit!

The secret to not crashing out and rage quitting Bitcoin is simple: Embrace irrelevance. You had your 15 minutes? Cool. So did Satoshi, and even he left. You don't have to do the same. You're welcome to stick around! You can show up to events to socialize and see what the fresh blood is building. You could become a walking meme. "Baklava guy" is taken, but you'll figure something out. Just don't start thinking Bitcoin needs you forever and that you're somehow super important. It doesn't and you aren't. Stay humble, stay irrelevant. Stay happy. ✌️

Were you foolish enough to run a BIP-110 node despite my warnings that it would break? Now your node is stuck at height 961,633 and simply switching to a different client won't fix it. To get back on the real Bitcoin chain: $ bitcoin-cli invalidateblock 0000000000000000000169eb6f811ddbd0daf343af7b62180cdb13e7c78dbc16 $ bitcoin-cli stop [install a non BIP-110 client] $ bitcoind -reindex -daemon

Compare something like Sparrow Wallet to ColdCard. Both had source available. Sparrow is an open source project (true open source - free to modify and distribute/use), a public good that people should audit and there's no pressure on @craigraw to pay for bounties, etc. ColdCard is a commercial company. They are selling a product and they are responsible for security. Their source code was made available, but people couldn't reuse it (license had forbidden it). So essentially there was almost no incentive for people to audit it. People who are not paying ColdCard money won't audit it because they can't use the code anyway, so they don't care. People who are paying ColdCard money assume that a commercial product is well audited by third parties, because what they're selling is a security product. They thought they were paying for security. ColdCard was selling a vaporware though, which is basically a scam. Nicely looking calculator with buzzwords instead of real security.

961632 was not the last fight. It was one of many. More users, more subcultures, more opinions and arguments about what this thing is for. Bitcoin doesn't need us to agree. It was built for the opposite case. Onwards!

The bip110 chain forked off at 961632. Bitcoin is at 961634 and counting. Months of heated discussion wasted for nothing. No. not for nothing. I want to thank the Knotzis. we all learned a lot in this time. About Bitcoin, consensus, forks, "spam", data and on and on. Onwards. Enjoy your chain/shitcoin.

@dotkrueger BIP-110's real damage isn't filtering Ordinals. It's proving two things: A) 55% is enough to change Bitcoin, and B) valid transactions can be blacklisted. Once those precedents exist, they don't go away. That's the attack.