I mean 10101 worked well, so it’s clearly not unmanageable. Just a question of people actually using it, which no one did.

A DOZEN!

No, they won’t, cause they’re mostly bots (why do you think you so rarely see them at meetups and conferences?) and people without any bitcoin.

Build open payment rails into AI or suffer this outcome.

The big AI labs are working on proprietary payment rails for their own use, locking useful AI into their closed gardens and ensuring their cut of everything you buy.

If we don’t build, that’s the outcome we’re stuck with - build agents with Bitcoin wallets, build agents that sell things, build agents that email merchants when they want to buy things.

BUIDL

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It’s time for bitcoiners to step up and build. You don’t need to know anything about software development anymore, you just need to note how to write (or even speak) words!

We have a golden opportunity to build out agentic payments based on the best money, rather than letting it be captured by big corporations yet again. But we’re squandering it arguing about useless crap instead of building.

Play with openclaw, give it a bitcoin wallet (moneydevkit makes this super easy! Also Lexe and phoenixd!), make it do things. If it fails to do what you want, go fix it! Build that bitcoin domain reseller, build that bitcoin airline ticket reseller, build whatever it is you need!

Bitcoin doesn’t just happen, it’s built. Join in.

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Unless it’s moneydevkit/phoenixd/lexe which are one-click installs with a built-in LSP :)

But, yes.

It doesn’t say anything about enforcement, though? The relevant claim is

“The heaviest proof-of-work chain contains no blocks that violate BIP-110 constraints from the BIP-110 activation point onward”

It is entirely mum on what happens without activation until after the bet “resolves”. Any bet on this would need to resolve closer to the end of the year after the forced-activation.

The way this is defined doesn’t it resolve to “yes” if no miners ever signal for 110 at all (resulting in the fork only happening on sept 1 at which point the bet resolves?)

No, because I’d rather be at a bar :)

I dunno who needs to hear this but seeing a professional (American) football game in person is strictly worse than on TV. The games are made for TV. Do you know what happens in the stadium for the nearly 50% of the time that they’re showing commercials? Absolutely fucking nothing. Oh you have a box? Cool, I’d rather be at a bar watching it on TV.

ODELL finally admits he controls the Bitcoin price.

I mean obviously we disagree but this conversation was never about whether that’s right or wrong. In fact I’m happy to see people disagreeing without assuming bad intent!

My point above was that comments like “I hope the next wave of Bitcoin developers agree with me instead”, which you made above, are pretty shitty. If you want to see a wave of Bitcoin developers that agrees with you, do something about it! Either contribute yourself or help find new developers. Slipping in sideways celebration that someone contributing a ton to Bitcoin was driven out by harassment at the end of a comment isn’t gonna inspire anyone to work on it, and worse it’s just gonna discourage people who might have wanted to bring in the next wave of developers to give up because who wants to bring in more people just for them to suffer absurd harassment?