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Joe Kerr⚡ @Boomstick44

6 months ago

You found Bitcoin and suddenly everything made sense. ⠀ Suddenly you saw the corruption, you looked forward to the future, and you felt secure. ⠀ It felt like you had been rescued. You talked differently. You thought differently. You had new community, new language, new hope.

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BIP 110 is safe and effective. If you disagree you a racist. The FAFO Edition: open.substack.com/pub/accesstrib…

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I can’t tell you how many people I’ve met who were left broken as a result of the unconstitutional, unlawful, and unscientific measures taken by governments around the world based on Fauci’s fake science. This woman sobbed uncontrollably on my shoulder after telling me she was planning to take her life the day the Freedom Convoy left for Ottawa until she heard about the truckers. She finally felt like she wasn’t all alone. Seeing those trucks gave her hope. Hope kept her alive. I gave her my number and told her she will never be alone again.

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Jesse @punspotter

5 months ago

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THIS IS INSANE. 🤯 India gave GitHub THREE HOURS to delete BitChat. By the time the deadline hit, the app was already back. On a network with no company to send the order to. Here's what happened: • India orders GitHub to remove BitChat, citing "unlawful communication" • GitHub has 3 hours to comply or face legal action • Within hours, a developer mirrors the entire codebase on Radicle • Radicle has no central server. No company. No CEO to subpoena. No app store to pressure. • The instructions go out: clone it, seed it, keep it alive • Every person who seeds it becomes another copy the government can't touch The part nobody's saying out loud: this is the exact scenario BitChat was built for. It runs on pure Bluetooth. No internet. No SIM. No phone number. It was already unkillable at the app layer, that's why protesters in Nepal, Iran, and Madagascar used it to route around government shutdowns. Now the SOURCE CODE is unkillable too. India didn't delete BitChat. It just handed the entire internet a live demo of why decentralized infrastructure exists. You can order a company to take something down. You can't order a network that isn't owned by anyone. Command to mirror it yourself is already public. People are seeding it right now.

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Crypto Jargon @Crypto_Jargon

a week ago

🚨🇮🇳BREAKING: India just ordered GitHub to take down Jack Dorsey's BitChat within three-hours. The mechanism explains why. BitChat runs entirely over Bluetooth, no internet, no servers, no phone number needed. That's exactly why NEET protesters started using it after mobile

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Disagree with this take, but its balanced and well argued.

Simon Dixon @SimonDixonTwitt

7 days ago

▶️ PART ONE: Where I Stand on BIP-110: The Battle for Bitcoin Nobody Wants to Name | Simon Dixon Hard Talk LIVE (24 July 2026). Read the blog: BIP-110, the Spam War, and the Battle Nobody Wants to Name: Where I Stand simondixon.com/blog/bip-110-t…

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@anondeguerre @denverbitcoin @parkeralewis @bitentrepreneur @MartyBent @petromundo1 Yeah. They should really stop putting those signs up saying "no women allowed". Oh, but wait! There was no sign...

Bloomberg just published a detailed investigation into how Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick and former White House digital assets adviser Bo Hines shaped the GENIUS Act in ways that directly benefited Tether. Before becoming Commerce Secretary, Lutnick was CEO of Cantor Fitzgerald, which manages Tether's reserves. Cantor acquired a 5% stake in Tether for $600M in April 2024. Tether's chairman called the price "bloody cheap." Based on Tether's reported profits, that stake was worth over $6B on paper. According to court filings citing contemporaneous notes, Tether's chairman said Lutnick "managed to kill every bill about stablecoins, crypto, etc." Once Trump took office, Hines took over, calling a three-year compliance grace period Tether wanted a "red line" for the White House. He prevailed. One month after the bill was signed, Tether hired Hines. Three months later, Tether loaned money to a trust benefiting Lutnick's children as they purchased his Cantor Fitzgerald holdings. The final law included what critics call the "reciprocity loophole" allowing USDT to be regulated by El Salvador instead of the US, and a "defi loophole" limiting issuers' responsibility for tracking tokens used on secondary markets. This is the kind of story that should remind people what stablecoins actually are. They're permissioned corporate tokens with kill switches, not permissionless money. The biggest beneficiaries of crypto legislation have never been bitcoin users. They've been the issuers sitting closest to the levers of power.

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Bitcoin already has that fix. The block size limit and the fee market it creates are what actually constrain spam, which is the exact mechanism your hypothetical relies on. The design space for embedding data in Bitcoin is effectively infinite. BIP 110 closes a few corners of it, and the data just moves. So one fork was never the deal. The deal is whack a mole in perpetuity, paid for in contested consensus changes, and the market is looking at the terms, and choosing to pass. For reference below: a novel way to encode arbitrary data on Bitcoin, fully BIP 110 compliant.

Steve @steverabinow

2 weeks ago

BIP110 taketh away OP_IF, but giveth OP_PLENTY. Introducing a novel way to encode arbitrary data in *contiguous* bytes. Up to 2MB fully BIP110 compliant. OP_PLENTY encodes each 4 bit nibble of the raw data into a tapscript opcode. Decoding is trivial: take the opcode mod 22.

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The impulse to change Bitcoin’s rules merely to prevent others from using Bitcoin in ways you disapprove of is statist and alien to a community rooted in liberty, property rights, free markets, natural law, and Austrian economics. BIP 110 would impose monetary purity by fiat.

BIP110 is safe and effective, and if you don't fork, you're a racist.

On the filter fork topic. I don't usually have time, but this morning listened to one of the twitter spaces from earlier in the week, with some well meaning relative bitcoin newcomers, that humanized them, and their concerns and thoughts for why they thought that made it logical to support 110. My feeling after listening, is if these are the people with #110 in their handles, I'm sad to see them about to fork off and get disillusioned without understanding why bitcoin rejected 110 robustly. So here's a more empathetic, constructive higher level version of explaining why not. I hope it's high-level and first-principles enough that everyone can follow. They seem to want to understand what makes people tick, and are suspicious of intent. So, if someone asked me why is Bitcoin important and what is it, I'd say my (personal) mission and hope for bitcoin is to build the cypherpunk future, that "Snow Crash" was a blueprint, and work backwards from there. Bitcoin I hope leads to fully free markets via bearer unseizable, hard mathematically dependable money. Not everyone is comfortable with that level of freedom, but that's my view. And at this point, I believe that surprisingly, even now many governments have come to understand and value bitcoin's gold-like mathematical assurance, a positive development. Others may have milder views than myself, but still like hard censorship resistant money. Because of motive suspicion, if it's not obvious: I hate spam with a passion, that's how I came to design hashcash while researching decentralized bearer money with others, and running nodes in privacy related cypherpunk p2p networks nearly three decades ago. People seem upset about the default op return policy change in bitcoin. I will just assert, there are extremely robust and simple reasons for bitcoin changing default relay policy, and most just didn't do their research, so don't know what those are, or maybe not technical enough to fully understand though there have been 1000s of posts trying to explain in various simplified ways. So that lack of understanding lends itself to shared build-up of false narratives. So here's my back-to-basics higher level explanation. The decentralization needed to create cypherpunk money has implications a: side effect of decentralization is that you can't impose your views on others. The very decentralization mechanism that helps that, is working against what BIP 110 wants, which at it's most basic is a quest to police other people. I understand supporters don't see their intent like that, but introspect deeper. You can modify your software, but not anyone else's. Another critical and incredibly robust technical bitcoin immune system is bitcoin can't have people who don't understand technology basics insist on eroding security, decentralization robustness and core properties. That would end badly, fast, and so people will fight you on that. So the message is Bitcoin respectfully says "no" to what you want. Sorry, and bitcoiners do genuinely understand and empathize that you mean well, have high level thoughts that make emotional sense, and articulate sensible bitcoin-defensive high level ideas, but they are not grounded and without you seeing it, the way you propose to achieve your ideas, hard-conflict with free cypherpunk permissionless money. My advice is to listen to more experienced people who understand the system and why it works the way it does, to whatever detail you want to understand the grounded reasons for why this is the implication of decentralization and cypherpunk money. I guarantee you the developer and protocol ecosystem shares and exceeds your views on bearer hard money (and dislike of spam). You may not agree with individual developers choices, views, way of expressing themselves etc, BUT you also need to understand the IETF-like decentralized technical consensus process creates a protective change resistance, that is highly effective at protecting bitcoin mission. The implication of which is no developer can change anything without technical consensus from hundreds of other developers and protocol observers who are pedantic and extremely knowledgeable clever people who won't let any unaddressed technical question past. The protective change resistance is robust and decentralized in an amplifying way because of this technical consensus. And the many highly technical mainline developers' cypherpunk mission mindsets are probably far more determined than you can even handle on clarity of understanding and views about freedoms on permissionless networks, as many of you are probably still subconsciously inured by the matrix, where they have transcended that, and grew up immersed in it decades ago. They think natively in this space, while you are just grappling with the surface. Many wont have internalized or have the experience to know how this internet physics works, where there is no policeman, no policy authority, just mathematics, free market and hard money. That has implications for your views also, unfortunately. Now the tough pill, which is unfortunately true: If you won't listen to reason, educate yourself, learn, the same radical freedom applies to you: your permissionless recourse is to club together and create a fork. But bitcoin won't be joining it. (With respect and no sleight intended.) Please rejoin bitcoin now, or later if you're not convinced and need to experience 110 forking off and fizzling for yourself to start that journey of introspecting and learning. It would be sad if bitcoin lost people disillusioned due to simple lack of understanding of what's going on there, we're all trying to defend bitcoin and keep it on mission. Including btw the 110 technical promoters, just they wandered off plot somehow. Join the cypherpunks on bitcoin, come cypherpunk summer🌞 in a few weeks.

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