Fun fact: Mircea Popescu put a bounty on Pieter Wuille’s head
21 sats \ 5 replies \ @ek OP 19 Jan
Huh, interesting even though "interesting" is probably not the right word. But I am also not surprised. I didn't read much yet about Popescu but what I read sounds like a generally unhinged person.
I searched around and found this article from Bitcoin Magazine and they linked to the blog post with the bounty: There's a one Bitcoin reward for the death of Pieter Wuille.
Skimming through it, I guess the reason for the bounty was SegWit?
I have a lot of reading to do. Unfortunately, he used some weird calendar to date his posts: Wednesday, 03 April, Year 5 d.Tr.
Anyone knows what d.Tr. means? Does it stand for the creation of the blog/bitcoin? So it starts counting from 2008 since that's when the blog started according to the footer?
Copyright © 2008 - 2024 for all text and images. Trilema is. Everything else's just hearsay.
Btw, if you use a link without a / at the end, the site just closes. Very interesting person indeed (or just a bug). Example:
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I didn't read much yet about Popescu but what I read sounds like a generally unhinged person.
It annoys me when people are like oh what a nut, can you believe it, what a toxic OG lol instead of what an epic fuckwad. Death threats are not funny. They are not foibles of somebody's quirky personality that we should chuckle and shake our heads about.
If that guy really did drown everyone in btc from top to bottom is better off for it.
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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @ek OP 19 Jan
I am a little confused, did you quote me as inspiration to talk about other people or did you feel that my quote sounded like these people:
oh what a nut, can you believe it, what a toxic OG lol
If so, that wasn't my intention, since I agree with you:
Death threats are not funny. They are not foibles of somebody's quirky personality that we should chuckle and shake our heads about.
I would say there aren't many things that I wouldn't make fun of in some way but inciting violence as part of a "joke" is definitely a no-go—kind of weird that I am even writing this.
I also absolutely hate a lot of these prank videos online. Even people who watch them make me sick since they already gave these people what they want: your click and your attention. So I am also kind of sick myself since by definition, I also watched some of them. They are just clicks on the expense of other people. People don't even need anonymity on the internet to be fuckwads. Enough clicks and attention can apparently compensate for the lack of anonymity of some actions.
But I get it. It's like watching an accident happen in real time. And social media addiction kind of makes people forget about decency. The first thing that often comes into mind is often: "I can post this on social media!"1
I am not sure if it really became worse thanks to social media (or the internet in general) or if the internet just makes us more aware of what always was the case. For example, I really like this clip of a German police officer:

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  1. Myself included, it happens to me too with SN.
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I am a little confused, did you quote me as inspiration to talk about other people or did you feel that my quote sounded like these people
No, just that he came up just now and it reminded me of the stuff I wrote about.
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No idea regarding d.Tr.
Mircea Popescu also started the "The Real Bitcoin" fork. It forked off at v5.3 or so, before the introduction of P2SH, because the project was diverging from Satoshi’s vision.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 22 Jan
Apparently there are still two such listening nodes on the network.
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