Absolutely not

Why am I not surprised Voorhees has his fingers all over this

From the active participants on X and nostr primarily

If anyone can make their voice heard why did Mechanic get banned for simply pointing out Lopp's conflict of interest?

The thing for me is, technically, they are probably right in this matter. But I agree with Mechanic about "directionality" and to me a big part of this is the horrible behavior coming out of Core. If this is the right move, just explain it, instead we are getting responses like "you're not a dev you don't have a say" and this high priest bullshit it's ridiculous.

I'm not against them being able to do it, that ship has sailed, I think in this case the issue is taking this decision about what's in someone's mempool away from the node runner. There's also this issue in how core is coming across with this decision. This ivory tower-ism, condescension and holier than thou shit coming from Core is gross frankly. I'm pretty shocked at the behavior.

Pay 2 Post could be a good idea

The power going out for a bit is fun. The power going out for a long time is not so fun haha

I don't know where I stand quite yet either but it's ridiculous that Mechanic got banned for "abuse" for pointing out Lopp's undisclosed conflict of interest. Have the debate, don't start banning people from the discussion.

Kind of surprised at a couple of these

Man I've always wished for the return of airships. Hope it works!

Sam Harris wrote a whole book on this called Lying if you're interested

That's how I saw it too

True, the thing that could keep this in check compared to the past though is the ease of assaying and proving availability of bitcoin reserves. Not at all as easy to do with gold or other backings.

Thanks for always providing the non-paywall link

I thought Wasabi had abandoned coordinating coinjoins?

Paywalled

You can also do your own multisig it is not that hard these days

To me, Satoshi nails it here. For some reason, I don't know why, people seem to never consider collectability as a "use" that generates initial value. In fact, this is the whole point of Nick Szabo's paper Shelling Out on the origins of money as collectibles.

In the beginning, some Bitcoin users just wanted to collect bitcoins. They wanted to have a higher balance. I don't know why this is not considered a "use".

The Most Serene Republic. He was truly one of a kind haha

Great post