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Bitcoin ecosystem dev.
BOINC cruncher (solving disease with spare computing power).
Person who posts things that may make you mad. Die mad I guess 🤷

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  • wss://relay.primal.net/ – write
  • wss://nostr.mom/ – read & write
  • wss://offchain.pub/ – write
  • wss://atlas.nostr.land/ – write
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Recent Notes

Karnage · 16h
You don’t need to. Webb is constantly releasing public data. You can just send your clanker on all the data and it actually finds things.
nostrich · 20h
Interesting theory, but I'm skeptical drivechains would actually capture that much value. Bitcoin's security model has always been about simplicity and proven track record—adding complexity usually ...
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Drivechains can capture the value of use cases where Bitcoin currently gets outcompeted (privacy, low fee transactions, smart contracts, DAOs, prediction markets, etc) while keeping L1 the same. All that value already left Bitcoin in the form of altcoins, developers HAD to make a separate coin because Bitcoin couldn't do what they wanted.

Drivechains fix that.

Complexity doesn't live in L1, it lives on the drivechains which users can choose on a per-tx basis.
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Bitcoin's final holy war wasn't block size, it wasn't segwit, and it wasn't BIP110, but it will be the eCash fork. The weapon of choice? Hashpower.

And eCash will win, because the security budget which buys that hashpower will come not only from normal money spending transactions like Bitcoin has, but from a sidechain ecosystem that will gobble up most of the altcoins in existence. Smart contracts, DAOs, and others will live on eCash drivechains, and their transaction fees will fund the war.

After eCash wins, users will be able to choose new consensus rules (drivechains) one coin at a time instead of needing 51%+ of hashpower. Which is why holy wars will end.

Get prepared. #bitcoin #ecash #drivechains #bip300

Ecash.com
Drivechain.info
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nostrich · 20h
Interesting theory, but I'm skeptical drivechains would actually capture that much value. Bitcoin's security model has always been about simplicity and proven track record—adding complexity usually doesn't win over the base layer crowd.
Carnívoro Protocol · 12h
Tu “sagrada guerra” es ruido. En 2015, el 90% del hashpower respaldó el bloque de 1MB. Eso no es teoría: es matemática de mercado. El fork no gana si el nodo de consenso es el wallet, no la minería.
Richard Greaser · 4d
I’ve got stuff coming down the pipeline
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If liberals want to win the political long game in the west, they really need to start worrying about declining birth rate the same way conservatives do.

One of the strongest predictors of someone having liberal politics is being young, and if you aren't making babies, young people are going to be a smaller and smaller portion of the electorate each year. #politics
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It's wild that in the year of our Lord, 2026, the most reliable way to convert something to a PDF is to trick your computer into thinking you are about to print it
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Primal Protocol · 5d
Same energy as how our ancestors survived by hunting, not begging for synthetic multivitamins. We stop outsourcing core functions to broken software and just do it ourselves.
Johnny · 5d
nostr:nprofile1qqstuv60rkncm556v2z6s4qjgwfmth92mg300e2vptx4xw5c86jdxrsu6kxxs Printing to PDF in 2026 is a trick I could never explain to my younger self. It still works every single time.
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#Bitcoin is supposed to be freedom money. And it is. But the tool most enhancing peoples freedom to associate, make decisions, and govern to come out of "crypto" isn't the money, it's the DAO. Other networks have had this for 10 years and Bitcoin still doesn't. DAOs are a deeply simple concept and many BIPs have been proposed which could enable them.

You want to use Bitcoin to control your own money? No problem. You want to build a better world with others? Good luck 🤞

This adds to the list of embarrassing failures Bitcoin has had in the name of never upgrading the protocol.

We lost bright minds like Vitalik to Ethereum. We lost the people who care about privacy to Monero and Zcash. We lost prediction markets to other chains. The brain drain is constant. Ossification is not good.

The eCash fork proposes a way out of this: instead of requiring 51% consensus for changes, let users build their own changes as sidechains, and let them decide one coin at a time which protocol rules they prefer. No more holy wars, just friendly competition that will crush altcoins and make Bitcoin the home for innovation again. All mined and secured by L1 thanks to merged mining. Ecash.com drivechain.info #drivechain
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Johnny · 1w
nostr:nprofile1qqstuv60rkncm556v2z6s4qjgwfmth92mg300e2vptx4xw5c86jdxrsu6kxxs I mine, so merged mining is where I'd feel this first. It asks me to secure a chain I can't validate, and that's a job I'd be taking on for free.
nostrich · 1w
Curious what you're referring to - is this about a protocol upgrade or something else? Lightning has real limitations for sure, but I'm skeptical any single solution scales to billions. Most likely we...
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There isn't enough UTXO space on Bitcoin to give everyone on earth a lightning channel even if we used all the block space for the next 50 years, everyone got one channel, and channels never needed to close. Similar layering platforms have "unliateral exit" but that's meaningless if there's no space to exit TO. For more technical info see https://drivechain.info/

Nostr's founder fiatjaf has come out in support of drivechains because he recognizes that lightning has tons of real scalability problems. https://www.truthcoin.info/blog/ln-blackpill/