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Cato The Elder
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Recent Notes

Cykros · 3d
I just generally feel it's divided two groups of people who otherwise all agreed than mining centralization is bad. But yes I'm aware from the technical side of things there isn't a huge gulf. But w...
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Bitcoiners fight during bear markets and cheer during bull markets. It’s the nature of the beast lol

Regarding the filters debate, if Core had rolled back the OP_R change in good faith immediately, a lot of this divorce would have been avoided.

I think spam fees are a negligible part of the miners’ revenues today, but the effect of accumulating monkey JPEG dust is really bad long term for node decentralization, so that disconnect is what’s driving this. Once we can get back to reasonable filters we should continue to diversify mining and hopefully ProductionReady and other nodes get market share.

And then price will moon :)
Cykros · 3d
Not that I'm too worried about the reorgs. But only because it doesn't seem like they'll be close an an issue, regardless of how much Mechanic gets out doing his best impression of Michael Saylor when...
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It seems like we have more in common than you think, I’m also very supportive of decentralizing mining and supporting new alternative implementations, (although I do run BIP-110 on my Knots node).

Is BIP-110 perfect? No. But it’s the only reasonable way I see of changing course and revert the development monopoly of Core, which I’m at this point very sure is compromised and will keep pushing gradual degradation of the protocol to weaken it slowly. Our enemies are smart, have money printers, and lots of patience to infiltrate the most centralized aspect of Bitcoin today.
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Cykros · 3d
I just generally feel it's divided two groups of people who otherwise all agreed than mining centralization is bad. But yes I'm aware from the technical side of things there isn't a huge gulf. But whatever, Bitcoiners fighting Bitcoiners is how we do things. Especially in bear markets. I don't en...
DagzTagz · 3d
It was a series of posts Cato As I moved my real coins, not that fake shit and discovered it all in real time in public on nostr https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsx54hjsv5fhf90yrukyguesdqewasejtmfqktthe90894zzlvsdpgw9fuae
Cykros · 3d
Besides not doing anything useful, being the most reckless activation of any fork ever (55%? Yikes), and completely undermining any valid narrative against spam? Mostly all the charlatans spreading c...
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On activation methodology, there is no other option. We can’t give veto power to hostile miners like F2Pool, who also mines Ethereum!

BIP-110 is a reaction to overreach by Core, who increased the attack surface for no real gain ignoring the will of the community (the OP_R uncap had 4 to 1 nacks to acks and plenty of grassroots opposition). Legal risks are real if Core keeps pushing Bitcoin from monetary network to file storage network, for example allowing huge arbitrary data in the designated arbitrary data section. The fact that a hack (libre relay) was created by a bad actor doesn’t mean we have to legitimize it.

Are you closely associated with Core? Because BIP-110 is also a reaction to several figures showing up in the Epstein files. Core has been co-opted.
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Cykros · 3d
The idea that Core changed Bitcoin inherently is another one of those twists of the truth. The reality is, nothing about Knots meant you couldn't open up datacarriersize either. It's not a 'hack' -- it's a configuration file option. I'm not thrilled with Core governance, and do still run Knots (wit...
DagzTagz · 3d
I already tagged you last night bro! Look at my nostr profile… are you capable of simple math? Or do you not understand the connections I made because you don’t understand legacy wallet migration I posted that with block timestamps purposely 5 days PRIOR TO CORE ANNOUNCING THE BUG
Operation Libertas · 4d
Companies like Raytheon don’t have endless jobs and they have competitors who can make people better offers if they’re trying to steal talent (or access). Not so say that there isn’t something ...
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Well you’re right that it’s not definitive - I have to rely on public information and don’t have any specific insider information. But I’m revealing a suspicious pattern:

- Strategy has deep ties to intelligence which have not been revealed to retail investors.
- It has a highly classified classification.
- It hired way overqualified intelligence individuals for a very small amount of government sales.
- Covert BTC accumulation via Strategy would make a lot of sense for a government which doesn’t want to give the game away early, and complies with the “budget neutral” SBR requirement, since they could 6102 the stack later.
Cykros · 3d
Besides not doing anything useful, being the most reckless activation of any fork ever (55%? Yikes), and completely undermining any valid narrative against spam? Mostly all the charlatans spreading complete nonsense. Like that it's how Bitcoin was before Core changed datacarriersize. Those got thro...
Cykros · 4d
Segwit enables multisig now? I knew the historical revisionism was all the rage these days but denying the existence of addresses starting with a 3 is a new one. Someone had better let Gavin know th...
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You should be embarrassed to come here to white knight for this fraud.

Yes, BIP-11 was great if you wanted to reveal your wallet structure immediately lol. It’s like I’m saying that the printing press made making books at scale possible, and you try to dunk on me saying that aktchually some dude in China was pressing seals on parchment before then. Get a grip.
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DagzTagz · 3d
Damn Cato I honestly thought you would stfu after I provided proof of my work but instead you pushed the narrative I’m a fraud So now we’re going to see who the fraud is, boomark this fucking post