Well then I have no idea why don't people use Rootstock more, it is a mystery to be honest.

Well then once they get over the fear of the federated peg maybe they will use it. Of course we would all be better off with trustless bridges to avoid this risk and psychological fear. But then again Bitcoiners use Custodial LN so I don't understand Bitcoiners any more.

Bitcoiners don't care about anything but larping. That is the problem, levels of apathy unseen elsewhere

Good, a year with nothing but spam pearl clutching is a sad year, give me some fun at least ... And no Ecash won't stigmatise merge mining, Bitcoiners have been hating on it since they ever heard about it, they are not reasonable people

No I mean PKI where all IDs are 5 bytes and are all registered the same way through a transaction on Rootstock. Some names can point to Homeservers or indexers or just users, exactly like DNS, that the lack of hierarchy.

I actually worked on this stuff and thought about it deeply, but I am not very optimistic on it at scale.

Pushing notifications to an aggregator whenever you have something new, the ActivityPub way makes sense. And Crawlers make sense.

But pushing a "hey please subscribe to me" the way Bluesky does is weird although I actually designed Homeservers to support that. It only makes sense if you assume orders of magnitudes fewer Homeservers than users (little self hosting) because it saves on bandwidth, BUT if you have a PKI, and you don't support random DIDs some of which can't be enumerated, then you could just enumerate all users and thus all their Homeservers and thus no need for the Homeserver to notify the aggregator of its existence.

I don't know, all of it seems marginal to crawling

Nah, Rootstock is already getting used in Latin America without politics. Bitcoiners simply don't want to use Bitcoin, others will and they will be paying more fees to miners so they will become more relevant. The only way through this bullshit is just to use Rootstock for your needs and ignore the drama. The tragedy of Bitcoin politics is that everyone talking doesn't actually need anything to change. Those who do should just use Rootstock and pay fees there and as halvings go on, nature is going to heal.

And of course the better way is what the OG sidechain paper and what Rootstock is already doing and going to do with BitVM; L1 gate withdrawals until L2 has enough work over the withdrawal claim + has no challenge with a fork with more work.

You can ideally use validity proofs as well, and use hashrate on L2 to update the ZK program whenever you need to make a soft or hardfork, but I suspect that is not how things will work, because it is too complex, and an equivalent of PoWPeg in BitVM is good enough for long time.


But if you make sidechain with very minimal consensus and ossify it, basically something like Bitcoin with GSR and written in Rust not C++, then maybe the validity proof thing is viable.

Long story short, I am not worried neither about Paul nor Bitcoiners reactions, they can't get any more dysfunctional.

LOL, ok then here you are, your European saviours are going to protect your right of speech and won't put you in a cell because you called a politician an asshole. What are you guys talking about right now.

Regardless it is not sustainable. I have seen some reporting that Twitter and Facebook are losing users especially younger, while tiktok and Reddit are doing better with younger folks, but overall the social media is getting less use and it is more fragmented ... I think we are going to go back to forums to be honest. I basically use Nostr as a 4000 users forum or so.

No, this is not a QR compatible, but I don't think it is too hard to design an alternative to QR, it is a deterministic and high contrast shape with well defined orientation.

In order to make it QR compatible it will be much uglier, QR needs to add error codes and things like that.

The goal here was only default profile pictures.
But maybe there are tricks that I am not aware of.

It is the oldest and largest merge mined sidechain for Bitcoin that enables you to peg-in use EVM and pegout again to Bitcoin Rootstock.io

It is a bank with a very liberal registration policy... Hardly surprising that it is widely adopted.

It is important to build attractive alternatives though. Including a Bitcoin derivative that trades upside for short/medium term purchasing power stability.

I hope we can satisfy at least some of this demand with solutions that increases the purchasing pressure on Bitcoin and actually pay miners even if on sidechains.