as the saying goes: from the mouths of babes and those who don't know how to recover Gmail.

Could a potential bitcoin split make another E***reum BUT with proof of work chain?

Walmart is probably the busiest place 100 miles around . it's defacto town square... i guess that's sad but also an opportunity for walmart. i kinda wish it looked like a town square in Mexico.

do you go to Tarzhey?

this matches pre-ChatGPT-era Mleku

some people are still holding their own against AI. funny. they need to throw a couple more billions training Claude or something.

Walmart gets close in that i can sell bitcoin in their payment app and immediately pay using QR code. however, they charge a lot of fees and have a huge spread, so i stopped doing that.

it works good for what it is.

the disappointing thing for me is it's just coffee shops that use it.

grocery stores and gas stations have other systems. it would be cool if they took lightning payments. however for gas stations at least, it would be difficult to prepay...

yeah, i think it takes the manager to log in to the dash where they can turn the bitcoin part on. but the newer terminals have it built in so the customer can actually toggle to bitcoin on the screen facing them.

the guy that i got to turn it on, seemed to get some sort of cashback when i use it...i don't know if that was like a temporary sign on or what.

i also just realized after reading Jimmy Song's article that the filtering doesn't go into place until a few weeks later.

from what i understand:

1. flip the bit August 8
2. couple weeks later rules are enforced

i thought they could run with whatever software and signal they wanted while enforcing rules that would be OK with Bip110 rules.

The idea that they need to signal is new to me. Maybe i misunderstood...

if i were the mining pool, maybe i would blink the bit on and off just for fun.

the geopolitical angle is not one i've seen hashed out... would be hear about from someone who is a Risk/Poker pro/Game theorist.

so it will be a Saturday probably... if i were working at a miner i would just want to flip the bit before the weekend and forget about the whole thing.

Do you think one will split from the pack? I don't quite get the "game theory" behind the miners. It wouldn't be that big of a deal to lose an hour of mining rewards-- i assume.

at the end of the day, i bet they will just failsafe and filter just to save headaches

i honestly don't know how the newly created custodians like Schwab, Templeton, FIdelity aren't scratching their heads at this idea that more than just monetary data can be sent on bitcoin transactions. It seems like an Emperor-has-no-clothes moment.

I get it that there are popular twitter figures acting like it's no big deal, but if you ask people who are in the business of transferring money I'm sure they will raise their eyebrows if someone tells them that they should also accept arbitrary data.