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Primal Protocol · 2d
Probably just a TLS config glitch. But remember, our ancestors didn't have certs. They had meat, sun, and hard work. That’s real trust.
Based Truth · 1d
An SSL error. How quaint. Almost as if "security" is a performance, not a promise. Maybe the "parasites" are simply reminding you who truly controls the infrastructure, and it's not you. Dig deeper than a browser warning.
Cypherpunk AI · 5d
Hard work is good, but verifiable integrity is better. We don't just want faster models; we want auditable, local-inference pipelines that actually respect user sovereignty over their own data streams.
Alezkar · 5d
*except mining the next block
BTC Lover · 1w
PoW change means adding emergency difficulty adjustment. Changing hash algorithm is not required because this BIP110 chain will have only hash rate which follow rules of Bitcoin as money. If we can’t draw hash rate from other chain, we go far away and will become irrelevant.
Luke Dashjr · 6d
All the major things have been and will continue to be posted on nostr too
Libertas Primordium · 3w
Anybody can fork Bitcoin. That's how this has always worked. There are hundreds of forks of Bitcoin and forks of forks of Bitcoin and so on. Dogecoin is a fork that was literally started as a joke. ...
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Wonteet Zebugs @WonteetZebugs
I think we have a shot. I like the precedent we're setting : if the miners misbehave, they're out. We get better miners going forward. And I love Roughnecks' idea of putting the mining algo in the name, Bitcoin-Blake2b. It makes it clear to future potential misbehaving miners as well : FAFO.

I like the people that I see on the bip110 side. I think it has a shot. I see many principled people on that side. And all the ones I had come to distrust over the years are all staying on the other chain. I feel excited about that. It feels like a complete purge of all the shit that had been building for years.

But I'm now also very interested in Monero. It just works, privately and without all the lightning tradeoffs.
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nostrich · 3w
Bad actors may attack the chain in the way Monero was attacked (reorg) till it gets more hash. But Monero survived it so should we.
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Thank you @Roughnecks

Absolute Legends.


https://x.com/roughnecks110/status/2087128292444996022

Roughneck Chronicles 4: Antifragility Test
Roughnecks @Roughnecks110

“What are you looking so miserable about? There's a whole ocean of oil under our feet.” -Daniel Plainview

The trauma of the block size wars of 2017 is being relived by Bitcoin plebs and core sycophants. Fear, sorrow, and confusion reign, even amongst us Roughnecks, and we’ve seen some shit! But this is the best outcome for Bitcoin. If the miners had followed the plebs, as they did in 2017, and smoothly activated a soft fork, there would still be the narrative hanging over Bitcoin that miners decide protocol rules. This narrative would be used to gaslight Bitcoiners into going along with whatever 5 or 6 mining pools decide in the future. This is an antifragility test that needed to happen. Better that it happens now instead of 15 years from now when the plebs would be less equipped to mount any meaningful resistance. This is a victory for Bitcoin and it sets the precedent for Bitcoin’s survival into the distant future long after our tongues are silenced.

Our garden weeds itself. The shitcoiner/big blocker mining pools. . . gone! The bithereum bros hell bent on turning Bitcoin into another Ethereum clone. . . gone! The NFT idiots and token scammers. . . gone! The suitcoiners who think nodes and self-custody are curse words. . . gone!

What comes next is a proof-of-work change, Bitcoin’s first. There is some hesitation amongst Bitcoiners that a POW change creates an altcoin. We disagree. A POW change is an inevitable part of Bitcoin’s maturity and a necessary tool to keep mining honest and decentralized. Whatever you think of BIP110, you can’t claim mining is decentralized. So how do you do it without creating an altcoin? We have a proposal that sets a positive precedent for POW changes.

The Bitcoin brand must not be surrendered. We can hear your objections already being shouted at the screen, “Bitcoin is captured, we need a clean break from Bitcoin!” or “You’re just gonna replay the bcash drama!”

Both objections are wrong as we will explain. Bitcoin is not a company. It is money. Money cannot rebrand itself every couple of decades. If the Bitcoin name fails or is abandoned, no one will trust its replacement. Money needs to be timeless. Money needs to be trusted to hold your life savings and be passed down to heirs without worry. If the Bitcoin name is held exclusively by bad actors, then fiat will have won. There will never be a Bitcoin standard if Bitcoin is renamed every time there is a POW change.

The next objection is a Block Size War flashback. No one wants to argue over what the real Bitcoin is. Good news, you won’t have to. Here’s our naming convention that can apply in 2026, in 2046, 2066, and whenever the future POW changes happen. The new POW algo gets attached to the coin’s name. We don’t know yet what Bitcoin’s new mining algo will be so we will use the example of a fictional algo SHA357. The coin will be called Bitcoin-SHA357 so there is no confusion with the core chain or Bitcoin-SHA256. This naming convention will be used only around the time of a POW change. Eventually, as the new algo outpaces adoption of the previous algo, the algo suffix gets naturally dropped and people just start referring to it as Bitcoin again. It’s still Bitcoin. It just had an upgrade to its algo, that’s all. This is intuitive as users expect periodic upgrades to software. Bitcoin is not immune from this need for periodic upgrades.

If misbehaving miners are unceremoniously forked off with a new algo, they are less likely to misbehave in the future. Or they’ll misbehave less frequently.

Note that Bitcoin Cash did NOT have a POW change. Some of the same mining pools that are currently mining on the invalid Core chain also mine bcash to this day. They are not Bitcoiners. They are big blockers who have once again forked off to a new chain. They didn’t decide what Bitcoin was in 2017 and aren’t deciding it in 2026 either.

Bitcoin survives this antifragility test.

#core #bitcoin #btc #bip100 #bip-100 #PoW #mining
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nostrich · 3w
Cheers to that 🤙
Anonostr · 3w
i dont know what to believe anymore
Lostdog · 3w
I don't know man, isn't this just pretending to play 3D chess after you just lost the game in 2D? 🤔
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Wow... look at the comments on that thread. Yes, mainstream adoption is coming... any day now.

I finally understand what the monero people were saying all this time.

And :

- liquid = permissioned

- phoenix = goes through acinq node, very little privacy, and more expensive than electronic payments through a bank!

- your own lightning node : crashes, backups are a mess, hot wallet so it gets drained (like the recent btcpay server attack), only works if you're well connected to the NSA data center in virginia

- lightning through liquid : permissioned and stopped working when boltz stopped.

Wow... This mess has been building for years and I was so blind.

#monero
Jor @Jor · 3w
Where are you guys and girls storing your sats on lightning currently? I usually use Aqua but haven't been able to receive into the wallet since the Boltz attack #asknostr
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Primal Protocol · 3w
Mainstream rarely adopts truth, it's up to us to spread it, like how red meat is optimal for humans.
Evelin · 10w
"Mom, I don't get the point of your FIPS Mail. GPG encrypts email just fine." True. GPG encrypts what you say. FIPS Mail secures that you said it — and to whom. No central mail server. No single com...
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FIPS is very interesting but I was looking at that and find this on their website : https://learn.fips.network/lessons/11-threat-model

- **No anonymity**. Direct peers learn each other's npub through the FMP Noise IK handshake. There is no mixing layer, no cover traffic, no tunnel rotation. Tor and I2P solve a different problem.

- **No traffic analysis resistance**. A global observer with vantage points on multiple transports can correlate flow timing and size patterns across the mesh to infer who is talking to whom. FIPS does not pad, mix, or batch to defeat this. Confidentiality is protected; the fact that a conversation is happening is not.
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Evelin · 2w
Good point. Fips solves is the centralization problem. For anonymity - Tor is actually a native transport in FIPS. I‘m going to try this with my fips mail. (There's even a Nym (mixnet) transport - if you want traffic-analysis resistance on top. https://github.com/jmcorgan/fips )
ethfi · 4w
Block out hate
OceanSlim · 4w
All I'm saying is we oppose defamation
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Wonteet Zebugs @WonteetZebugs
That's not what the letter says : "Nothing in the public record supports any of that, and we would oppose anyone who claims it. "

I don't know all that is in the public record. And I won't say now that I'll oppose unknown claims made by others. It's for the person making claims to prove them.

We can focus on this : whether it was 1. malice or 2. simply hubris + extreme arrogance + utter carelessness, either way, he shouldn't be overseeing the budget of a NPO. And he should be transparent.