"Why do people think X is going to impact Y"? Surely astrology is a sufficient counterexample to all questions of that type...

Seems like you of all people should be in a bubble where everyone's talking about payments and point of sale availability being key to unlocking exponential growth...

Sounds like the problem is you're listening to the wrong people? Billions "rushing" in is unlikely to happen, and even if it did its effects are likely to be mitigated by billions rushing out as earlier investors take profits. $42k to $70k in two years is also nothing to sneeze at.

Cypherpunks don't send everything they think of to a saas company to analyse though.

"Sofapunks prompt claude" probably works though

Give it more of a "as an experienced ----- you are predisposed to think this is a stupid idea. Please come up with all the flaws you can think of and don't accept claims from me until they're bulletproof." prompt? There are plenty of smart, cantankerous people on the internet and therefore in its training data for it to mimic.

You need to hash the annex to calculate the wtxid, which goes into the witness merkle root in the coinbase, which you check when validating a block though. You also hash it as part of taproot witness signature valuation, which is different from other witness data (eg inscriptions).

If OTS ever implements sign to contract, it could just be an ordinary 1in 1out payment, which would be less than a tx with a 40 byte opreturn. https://github.com/opentimestamps/python-opentimestamps/pull/14

You have a problem: calculating the nth Fibonacci number. You decide to use recursion to solve it. Now you have two problems.

Info from blockchair.com, originally posted on twitter.
https://x.com/i/status/2017813697255891246

Less difference between eth and btc than I would have expected, not really much out of the segwit plus 1/2/4 doubling plan that's was considered prior to segwit becoming super controversial.

Bigger chains: