Damus

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ODELL · 12w
saylor seems to be advocating for a hard fork that forces people to move coin. burning those who do not comply. this breaks the fundamental social contract and value prop of bitcoin: sovereign owner...
Laukess profile picture
I haven't listened to a Saylor interviews for some time now, but I feel like every interview I've watched with him he says at least one retarded thing.

Last interview I watched, he seemed to think bitcoin was centralized because developers could just merge code at will, and because of that we shouldn't support them financially, because ossification would be preferred.

He does seem to learn and change his tune, at least early on. I have mad respect for that though.
Aaron van Wirdum · 18w
Not recently. I (used to?) have a technical podcast with nostr:nprofile1qqsgdp0taan9xwxadyc79nxl8svanu895yr8eyv0ytnss8p9tru047qpz3mhxue69uhhyetvv9ujuerpd46hxtnfduje6mks called Bitcoin, Explained. The most recent episode happens to be on this OP_RETURN issue as well actually-- though of course a lot...
Laukess · 19w
Have you been on any other podcasts recently besides this one, you can recommend?
Laukess · 19w
sorry, ignore what I wrote, I'm retarded.
Aaron van Wirdum · 19w
>When a fork *is* contentious, and miners, following economic incentive, end up choosing different rulesets to support different bitcoin users, then the chain genuinely forks into two histories. This...
Laukess profile picture
And the minority hash power would be economically incentivised to move to the other side to avoid being reorged. I don’t understand why we would get a split if the majority of miners are going with bip 444. Would it not require a URSF or some sort of code change from the anti 444 group to force a chain split? Am I missing something?
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Aaron van Wirdum · 19w
You’re right. (Could be as simple as using the invalidateblock command though.)
ODELL · 19w
if there is not overwhelming consensus for a soft fork then it will likely result in a chainsplit the end result is very similar to a hard fork, two competing chains those holding self custody would...
Laukess profile picture
You say "overwhelming consensus", but by whom? If most miners chose 444, non compliant blocks would be discarded by them, and your core node would go with the longest chain, no? If that was the case you would need something like a URSF to force a split, right?

I want the tokens or a prediction market so I can see the actual consensus. Something more sybil resistant than loud twitter users/bots.

This is starting to feel a lot like the block size war, not on content, but by the type of people who support each side, and their arguments.

Back then it was.
x: bigger blocks will lower fees
y: not long term and it's a bad way to scale
x: fuck you, you want high fees.
ODELL · 19w
if there is not overwhelming consensus for a soft fork then it will likely result in a chainsplit the end result is very similar to a hard fork, two competing chains those holding self custody would have equivalent btc on each
Laukess profile picture
Just shouting into the ether in hopes of someone seeing this and zaps me a few sats, so I can see if I got the wallet setup correctly.

GM folks.