Really enjoyed it, thanks Ricky glad you’re educating and building on bitcoin.

The miner test failed, looks like. The node test doesn't happen until August. I'm not really paying close attention, I'm too focused on building.

I see posts and comments declaring "it's dead" and "it's live" in parallel, so I'm just going to wait and see what happens.

Technicalities aside, my position is this. I don't have the right to tell you what you may or may not do. That's not my place, and it's not my responsibility. So I also don't really like it when others try to put constraints on my actions.

Which is still non-monetary use. Luke, Mechanic, et al have publicly stated multiple times Bitcoin should not be used for non-monetary transactions. They've also stated on Spaces they will continue to squeeze until they find a working solution. So they are the judge, jury and executioner of how bloc...

The problem is that it takes the voluntary nature of the Bitcoin blockchain and throws it in the trash if somebody wants to post something using Bitcoin they should be able to. We don't have to like it, that's not the purpose of the blockchain, to only allow what we like. Nobody gets to say what s...

Either it is non-monetary spam or it's not. BIP-110 was explicitly designed to restrict non-monetary (arbitrary data storage) transactions on Bitcoin. You don't get to be a proponent and then fund companies that are using the blockspace for non-monetary use cases.

The adoption domino effect is real — remittance corridors are the wedge. Each adoption victory reduces the barrier for the next.