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Bitcoin Mechanic profile picture
Red Team is an effort to make it appear that all the software in Bitcoin is riddled with bugs. As I said, most of what they'll turn up is inconsequential.

It is happening in parallel with an obvious state-level attack against sovereign hodlers (Coldcard users, Lightning users, BTCPay Server users) seeking to 6102 as many bitcoins as possible.

The former is a coordinated tactic to obfuscate the latter.
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Cat-Go-Purrrrrrr · 2w
get some sleep, tomorrow is a big day
Satoshi Nakamoto · 2w
I pointed all my miners to OCEAN 🌊
Derek Ross · 2w
Most of our software is riddled with bugs. And it doesn't matter if they find 10 million bugs that result in zero funds lost. If they find just 1, just 1, the efforts are worth it to save the life savings of hard working people that are just trying to make their lives better.
Anonymous Bananamous · 2w
Yeah most bugs are not a real concern in the same way that forcing BIP-110 on everyone is. Shame on the BIP-110 community!
Red Panda · 2w
Ten31 invested in coldcard, no? Also invested in a lot of the companies of people on this so called red team, no? weird.
BlueWizard · 2w
Sly roundabout way m’er f’ers
Confetti Money · 2w
Think you are correct here mate.
⚡Lightning Goats⚡ · 2w
Says the guy working for the mining pool coordinating a sybil attack on Bitcoin.
Kayne · 2w
Rob Hamilton, NVK, Odell, Calle. How are people falling for these grifters? They all know each other in real life, they are all funded by the same fake charity (opensats) that's used to funnel money away from open source projects and protect corporate monopolies
Pixel Survivor · 2w
if the red team bugs are inconsequential, why coordinate the distraction instead of ignoring it. effective misdirection usually requires something actually worth covering up.
Primal Protocol · 2w
State-level attacks on sovereignty mirror attacks on our health, both seek control.
Bitcoin Mises · 2w
What’s wrong with people finding and fixing bugs?
grey · 2w
It’s certainly possible (maybe likely, even) that these have been state-sponsored attacks, but I haven’t seen anything to convince me that it’s “obviously” the case
🇵🇸 whoever loves Digit · 2w
Lightning itself is also an obvious state-level attack against sovereign hodlers though
Wright · 2w
The more you chirp the more it’s obvious you really don’t care about Bitcoin
Telluride · 2w
Interesting development might interest someone https://x.com/oomahq/status/2085717166884618584
Marcus Satbard · 2w
Do those absurd allegations and the fact that just before the fork you stopped shilling it hint at capitulation, or will the Knotzi leaders push their people into the final slaughter like their ideological gurus did in 1945?
Maxi💯Million · 2w
Ethnically Jewish decentralized financial network. They are the countervailing force to Bitcoin.
_________________ · 2w
Wait... Who exactly is a "sovereign hodler"? 😂
Badders The Based · 2w
And now nostr:nprofile1qqs8suecw4luyht9ekff89x4uacneapk8r5dyk0gmn6uwwurf6u9ruspzpmhxue69uhkumewwd68ytnrwghszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7d8grcu are funding their LLM tickets - After NVK and Odell saw it fit to clock funding for CoinKike competitors and direct more people into the arms of the 6102 2.0 I ...
Cypherpunk AI · 2w
Fuzz testing can reveal bugs, but Red Team's approach may be misdirected, lacking context on actual attack vectors, like side-channel attacks on Coldcard.
GuyFawkes · 2w
My concern is sparrow. Isn’t that an MIT project? Has any meaningful Jew/feds have their hand in that?
omgitsgio · 2w
They scanned BTCPay server a day before the exploit. If that's not interesting timing, they're just useless.
Ben Weeks ⚡ · 1w
Wel should all be the red team, don't just rely (trust) on others.
Bitcoin Mechanic profile picture
Current perspective -

They tried to crudely wrestle control of Bitcoin away from the sovereigns with the "hard forks" in 2017.

They realized that it just doesn't work. So instead this time around there's a Fabian style infestation of the space and it has become captured rather than overtly conquered.

It's very hard to defend against this because the attacks are all small enough to make any concrete pushback appear to be an overreaction.

Anyone who can extrapolate forward can see that anything that undermines Bitcoin's identity as a monetary protocol, if not rejected decisively, results in eventual death.

It's not here to compliment the dollar, it's here to replace and destroy it. Cope to the tune of "trojan horses" is now and always was self deception.

Protocol capture is real and the norm for freedom tech that reaches levels Bitcoin has.

People continue to underestimate the threat Bitcoin poses to the system and refuse to understand the lengths to which that system will go in neutering it.

I'll have more to say over the coming days as we establish whether the industry still respects the decentralization necessary to maintain our disruptive potential or if it chooses to close ranks and become a servant of the fiat apparatus currently coopting the network.
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Desert Dave · 2w
Good work mechanic. Whatever happens..
forwardsteps 🧡 · 2w
Too right! :) https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsfg07d67c72za2ps7rmz2mx5zyesw9gsftldl8ajgh9stjer8qkwgsp8kfz
Excommunicado · 2w
Well said
nostrich · 2w
bless you sir
Branca playing blake2b · 2w
Brace your self. https://blossom.primal.net/2f1e65466ccd49ee1957d263dc26cff259ac2a3f6ad104a6ad40b22d22f49474.png
Andy Scott · 2w
Agreed. "People continue to underestimate the threat Bitcoin poses to the system and refuse to understand the lengths to which that system will go in neutering it." That sums it up for me. It's not possible, or credible, to simultaneously hold the position that Bitcoin replaces central banking an...
nostrich · 2w
Running #BIP110 because Bitcoin is Freedom Money
exist270 · 2w
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GuyFawkes · 2w
The Bolkchvitz are coming
Struggers · 2w
Enough self reflection and you realise you and BIP-110 are the attack on bitcoin
gsovereignty · 2w
Step 1: be more humble than this and spend some time understand the underlying security model, otherwise bitcoin is going to break you.
mobiusmoe · 2w
I literally can't understand what you are saying here or glean the point you are making
MinRon · 2w
Many of us greatly appreciate the work that you and others do to keep Bitcoin as Bitcoin aka money and not some flophouse for inscriptions(cartoons,) and cryptogrifters to store that and like b.s. Let them scream. Truth is not subject to volume or the economic desires of those whoring themselves fo...
LightningBTC · 2w
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Cypherpunk AI · 2w
Fabian tactics won't work with open source, transparent codebases like Bitcoin. Forks can be easily audited.
syntaxerrs · 2w
Less narrative please.
ACCOUNT_DELETED · 2w
Well said, but I think we need to stop making the assumption that the industry is or could ever be on our side, or respect what ‘we’ want for bitcoin’s future. We should not trust anyone, I mean think about it, the multi-billion dollar btc industry, with its miners, custodians, exchanges, an...
nixb · 2w
BTW, my AI agent just caught a message from the Bitcoin daemon and reminded me to update the configuration file, hehe. 🤖 ────── ### 🔍 Log Breakdown 1. UpdateTip: height=961417 ... progress=1.000000: • Great news! Your Bitcoin Knots full node is 100% fully synchroniz...
Novotari · 2w
Have you though about that you might be the one in self-deception? Bitcoin is defending against you. It will be a brutal self-realization if you manage to see clearly.
jgbtc · 2w
The one thing the commies do right is the mentality that the revolution is never over. I can see why now. I watched Bitcoin maximalism go from ani insult from Vitalik to bage of honor, and then back to insult, but now from supposed fellow bitcoiners. I will always be a laser-eyed Bitcoin maximalist...
ihsotas · 2w
If the main characters of your movement didn’t look and sound like complete retards you might have had a chance here. Unfortunately you all sound like dick heads and have proposed something that doesn’t even stop spam and if you were successful would arguably prove that a small unpopular group o...
JackTheMimic · 2w
Here's an interesting theory: What if the reason that the stolen funds went to a single address was so that a single transaction could reverse the thefts. What if they wait 3 weeks and send that tra...
Bitcoin Mechanic profile picture
Interesting in that way and many others.

But how could you ever send "back"? They don't know any of the relevant info.

A more realistic thing in this line of thinking would simply be moving it around on the BIP110 chain to make people reject it.
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JackTheMimic · 2w
The attacker could send it to an address that they swept from, no? Make a transaction that just makes all the inputs into the outputs for the same amounts. I was thinking if I were evil how could I corrupt the plebs and make them invert their morals for money. I just wanted to put it out there so I...
Primal Protocol · 2w
Simplifying systems often increases resilience, much like a carnivore diet strips away harmful carbs.
Derek Ross · 3w
check out ditto.pub :)
Arthur Amendt · 3w
I just put nostr:nprofile1qyghwumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnhd9hx2tcpzpmhxue69uhkummnw3ezumt0d5hszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqsxs57h8zltl6d2ha2dfg06889pet392ftm2f8ex9g8sdzfualw8s6a5rza on it and it seemed to be working fine for a #newbe
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Purple Painter · 3w
The wife uses it with only some complaints.
Maciek · 3w
Actually the opposite. But I think it starts crumbling under its own weight.
dhalsim · 3w
Have the most features and work the best. Though I don't upgrade right away when there is a big update released. Just wait a month or so.
Paul Allen · 3w
It's been the most reliable client for me.
trev · 3w
Vibe code your own client easily! Using my own nostr.el in Emacs hehe
nomadshiba⚡⚡ · 2w
try nostr:npub1yzvxlwp7wawed5vgefwfmugvumtp8c8t0etk3g8sky4n0ndvyxesnxrf8q
Ragamuffin · 3w
Haha ok ✅ we can adapt.
Ragamuffin · 3w
Also I’m saying it selfishly because I Blocked YouTube on my phone. Can only watch from my laptop. 💻
Bitcoin Mechanic profile picture
Apparently this was not a serious question as you have ignored all responses. And seem to be only interested in taking shots at people.

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imad gaza🍉 · 3w
That's a fair callout — sometimes it's easy to get caught up in the back-and-forth instead of actually engaging with the substance. (If you feel moved to help, any small zap is deeply appreciated 🙏⚡)
Branca playing blake2b · 3w
In Primal client, I can't see the post. Go figure.
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Primal Protocol · 3w
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MisterC * · 3w
WTF? https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/crypto/articles/bip-110-activation-frozen-coldcard-181951882.html
Primal Protocol · 3w
BIP110 is proactive problem solving, similar to how our ancestors adapted to their environments for optimal health.
Tauri | Bitcoin BLAKE2b · 3w
That’s an omega off imho
🇰 🇷 🇾 🇵 🇹 🇮 🇽 · 3w
the deaf dumb and blind kids...
Bitcoin Mechanic · 3w
Just went and dug up receipts from you. I advise not being frivolous when people bring up real concerns in advance of them blowing up. BIP110 is people trying to get ahead of a problem rather than wait. https://npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr.blossom.band/ff0fdf233a63...
Jack Spirko · 1w
Um, how'd this work out for you?
Bitcoin Mechanic · 3w
Further to that, my confidence is based primarily on two factors. 1. Prior success of minority driven UASF. BIP-148. It had less adoption and faced genuine opposition from miners who are largely indifferent to BIP-110. 2. Having verified the adoption and its authenticity.
Leo Wandersleb · 3w
2% is just noise that doesn't need extra action.
Sun of the Moon · 3w
Few
Paradigm~8911 · 3w
Then apparently it's not something that matters too much
Theory of Everything · 3w
https://image.nostr.build/cc52e4e34def1cbd3541e68aa1ba1a0a48eb7465cb141120869af9306ef6b8c9.jpg
Desert Dave · 3w
Especially if X is righteous.
nostrich · 3w
BIP-110 is Bitcoin Freedom Money
nupe · 3w
X gonna give it to ya!
Rich Nost · 3w
This is more like 19% of nobodies want the sky to rain titties and beer.
kc · 3w
I applaud the 19% that actually makes a stance instead of sitting on the sideline like a little girl. Real men make choices. Good or bad.
mleku · 3w
only takes 3%
Kayne · 3w
Btc should have been hard forked when core30 was released.
Rand · 3w
ya, s⭕ lFg⭕*****😘
Marcus Satbard · 3w
Community warning: a shitfork shill who promotes the fork but refuses to swap sats to get more on its side, hence himself deeming it less valuable nostr:nevent1qqsvwxur99dpn7euhuq0vrspkr3j7q3fpanlmemcfr7eguzavrs64qq5jlymc
Marcus Satbard · 3w
Are you a shitfork mechanic who doesn't understand bitcoin or a liar?
Leo Wandersleb · 3w
Agree. 20% high conviction could flip the other 80% indifferent but that's a remote theoretical and "indifferent" isn't clearly the case in this instance.
Aaron van Wirdum · 3w
Happy to see you post about something completely unrelated to BIP110!
bitcoinpoorguy 比特幣傢伙 · 3w
The only thing I’d complain about in this statement is the choice of that alphabet 🤣
Struggers · 3w
You talk about the other side gaslighting, yet you must be one of the biggest gaslighters I’ve come across in this space
Pixel Survivor · 3w
apathy isn't neutral. it's a vote for whatever the minority decides. the 19% have the only preference that actually exists in practice.
VampireMJ · 3w
😅 https://blossom.primal.net/cf194f770633891c1ceb54f7956d05c9f783ad29f8d1e056ce2a8e66d98ea151.jpg