IIUC this post will be shown on the Open Source stage at Bitcoin 2026 so people can zap me during our panel.

If your answer is an address index that also seems a bit underwhelming; BTCDrak already released such a Bitcoin Core fork over a decade ago but I guess no one really cared: https://bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin-rbf-bitcoin-knots-and-bitcoin-addrindex-three-core-forks-that-don-t-break-with-consensus-1458237046

Do you have an answer to this question?

I couldn’t find much on these Bitcoin Maps websites. Only place I’ve paid with bitcoin so far is the Bitcoin house itself.

But maybe a local knows more than I do.

Roy

It'll only serve as a check on the direction of development if people use it.

So my question is, what exactly will be the product differentiation that will get people to use it?

If the answer is different policy defaults that seems a bit underwhelming since, well, they're defaults and can already be changed...

How would this be different from Core itself?

The general idea of adjusting difficulty predates Bitcoin, but (AFAIK) Bitcoin was the first with a difficulty adjustment *algorithm* :)

No offense taken, I think this is exactly right. And both the Iranian and the UAE governments probably know this as well.

To be fair, I have seen some “we’re not fucking leaving” sentiment among expats. But as mentioned daily life is also still pretty normal; I doubt it will persist for very long if things keep getting tougher from here.