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I watched a talk from Cody Wilson the other day that has made me reorient spiritually a little bit. It's called "Death Athletic." It's a good articulation of the sentimental quandary we are in: the combination of "I know I'm fucked" but also "I can't give up because there is a higher purpo
se, and I will not be made miserable." He pulls some pretty good philosophical references throuhgout, and mentions Christ and Socrates as an example of inverting "this is being done to me" as "this is all according to plan." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVi9m65lHGc
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Sure thing, good questions.


) Package relay and ephemeral anchors complement OP_VAULT, but don't replace it. They're about relay policy and how transactions can be replaced in the mempool, but they don't enforce any kind of new on-chain script rules. Sadly you just can't do vault stuff without allowing "tighter" rules on script validation with certain new opcodes, which is all a soft fork is.

2) UASF from a code standpoint is not really any harder than any activation method, but IMO it should be a last resort. The point of "traditional" activation methods like BIP8/9/speedtrial is not to ask miner approval, it is to help coordinate the upgrade with miners so that there isn't some portion of hashrate that might mine blocks that are invalid with the new rule set and cause a disrputive chainsplit. Whether or not this winds up being a UASF isn't something I would decide.
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Ironic to me that the mobile experience on nostr is so far ahead of the desktop equivalent. Mobile is a captured platform; it's bad for our minds and our privacy. We should get off it to the extent possible.