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Bitcoin is hard to change. That's a feature not a bug. Adding new rules by fiat and the cover of good intentions just doesn’t work.

If you want to see bitcoin used as money, use the damn thing as money.

You cannot change bitcoin by committee or dictate. You need overwhelming consensus.

You don't want bitcoin to end up like EU producing 10s of thousands of new rules and regulations a year now amounting to over 1 million decrees.

I know it's a stretch to compare Bitcoin to EU but i believe that’s the direction of travel we go if we start changing bitcoin by virtue of fiat.

You can't dictate or regulate how people view, run or use bitcoin, but you can make it easy for people to use it. You cannot force people to use bitcoin as money but you can accept bitcoin as money and use it as such.

We the people need to change, not bitcoin.

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Kiko Tsuki · 1w

Last year OP_RETURN was uncapped in months, with no real consensus. Bitcoin has been attacked.

This is so lame. So your answer to crooks breaking our sound money is to sit back, relax and spend some sats? Oh and make it easy to use (presumably by giving custody away to others?) Or you don't think that far ahead cos you're too busy just chill'n and spend'n satoshis gift? Not too worried about ...

What I believe as well, right on target

This was a narrowing of the rules. Not adding new features. Didn't seem too hard for people to add taproot now did it? I don't remember thousands of node runners asking for taproot..... Your logic is flawed.

LeadingSuspect · 1w

As long as all transactions in bitcoin feel like as if one water molecule has to ask another water molecule and its current to leave its current hydrogen bond to form another, and before it could it had to ask the new how many times it has changed its state and in which ever carbonated lifeform it h...

The big miners made the final call. If we would have properly distributed hashrate it would then be a fair vote. Tell me whats the point of Bitcoin if Foundry and antpool make the final decision on what gets changed in Bitcoin?

Archiesta · 1w

I cannot believe that people are this close minded. Core changed without consensus so easy because of their priesthood. This will not end well I think. It seems that nothing man invents can withstand corruption. So no cyberito for me.

Seed Phrase Companion (SPC) · 1w

This is the part that resonates most, don’t force Bitcoin to become money. Build a world where people naturally choose to use it as money.

Bitcoin Mises · 1w

Resonance Cascade · 1w

What this shows is how fucked we are with mining centralization. Expect the heavies to come down hard on the miners now to block an Iranian Hormuz passage toll for example?

I wish I had seen as much shit posting and philisophical pontificating about the nature of bitcoin regarding Core and Op Return as I have about BIP 110. Its like two similar situations with two different responses from bitcoiners. For Op Return, since Core just did it, bitcoiners just took it up t...

DireMunchkin · 1w

Let's hope the same cabal that increased OP_RETURN size doesn't come back in a few years and add inflation or something. This episode proved they can railroad everybody else into going along, and there's not much that can be done about it. You can fork off to a minority chain, that's about it. 😔...

3 major incursions on the protocol have left us with a wide open vulnerability that leads to issues for lightning/ark and quantum vulnerability. and honestly, there is two major issues that never have been addressed, and you can verify this easily (try your clanker): - the checkpoint system is cent...

The Nazi Society · 1w

I have never run into this many NPC's as I have here in the last few days https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksb3KD6DfSI

Sydney Bright · 1w

“If you want to see bitcoin used as money, use the damn thing as money. “. Well said!