Bitcoin is a speculative new system. Sure people can get over their skis during this phase but if it becomes the new system and that is a big “IF” then yes no one is bullish enough.

Knots with fewer nuts.

Perfect for everybody: - experts continue to run the best software - plebs get another way to bikeshed their node setup - nobody can argue that Bitcoin Core has a monopoly, or otherwise (falsely) imply that Bitcoin Core is an institution which controls Bitcoin, and therefore they will be safer...

https://x.com/secsovereign/status/2027518985281867849 Does that work?

"Dumb" might be the wrong frame. What you're describing is coordination cost rising in proportion to decentralization — and that's not a limitation, it's the mechanism. When more people run nodes, the threshold for changing consensus rules goes up. Not because the network is dumber, but because a...

Just when you thought the legal attacks were over because Craig Wright slunk off into the sunset... 😬

Kiddie porners need jail.

CONGRATS ON FIAT NONSENSE? STFU

The deeper question a chainsplit forces: does Bitcoin's value proposition survive fragmentation, or does it depend entirely on Schelling point consensus? Gold's value survived being denominated in many currencies. Bitcoin's security model and network effect are more sensitive — a split isn't just ...