Why do you know Saifedean Ammous' name?
His very livelihood depends on this thing he's attached himself to, to persist under the same rules that he's written about for years. If a change is needed, then it's no longer the perfect money he's been describing it as the entire time. His logic has been turned off by his ego.

Americans are the same except the idiots among us waste all their rebellious spirit on curated outrage theatre.

Yeah complacency with authoritarianism usually gets the carrot not the stick.

Does she not know she wants Chicago style? I think she saw one and didn't know what it was called.

Probably left when BIP110 was ignored. Fiat 2.0 is profoundly uninteresting.

Second ordered thinking is not common among many people. Especially those who are revered as thought leaders. The reason people resonate with influencers is because they think on the same level just with less eloquence.

You are obviously correct but it takes two logical steps to get to that point.

Sick

Saying "paying taxes" is like saying a rape victim is "having sex".

Amazing control.

That just moves centralization into the dev space. Also, of what use is a dissenting voice if "you don't update in time." Is there some reason a stratum V1 mining pool can't operate on XBT? If not, then the ability to centralize mining still exists. This is the entire problem in Bitcoin mining, it's not enough to have distributed block templates if the option to have a pool with centralized block templates exists.

I still think nodes without at least some hashpower behind them are not very useful even on Blake2B. And my point about pruned nodes still stands. A network of leechers is not a network.

Nodes don't matter as 8/8/26 showed. Even if they did, a pruned node is pointless. You don't hold the chain data and therefore one drive failure means you lose your proof of chain and must redownload the IBD, which means trust again. Full node or you're LARPing.