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I'm not a fan of the speedy trial thing, if that's what you mean with vulnerability. It puts pressure on people to make a decision quickly and that's not what Bitcoin imho should be about. Slow and steady - there was no need to rush, and it would have been totally fine if it would have activated later without rush.
I wonder though: will mining pools champion L1 purity? I don't really expect them to.
Us and a bunch of degens spamming pics, I guess.
Why do you use it?
On hot wallet basically because its what wasabi coinjoin does most for smaller sized outputs, so it's just a thing for joining the larger anonset. I do think that this is a more recent development; iirc i used to have more p2wpkh before. I don't really care either way on hot. Most of it gets spent through LN often sooner rather than later.
On cold wallet, the honest answer is because i thought it was cool that an observer doesn't know whether its a script or a pk output. Which is, I admit, a dumb reason and i should have skipped it until at least there was a battle tested FROST implementation I could use. So yeah... feel free to call me a retard on that one.
Do we all realize how this "bigger data centers and bigger models will make AGI" narrative has somehow faded? What about all those massive data centers?
The basic principle is: If you connect to my electrum server then I can log your IP and traffic. If you use your own then I cannot.
For example, some of the deanonymization orgs are known to run large amounts of public services to try and correlate your IP to your transaction.
Was it a failure or a triumph?
Depends on what you mean by it.
I think that the activation was a failure, not as in fail to activate but the implementation - in Core - clearly had unintended side effects, so it was activated too soon.
For the feature itself, it's only a failure if someone other than me spends my p2tr coin due to a bug or cryptographic weakness, so that's too soon to tell. For example, if the quantum doomers are right and this turned out to be the last protocol enhancement, then it could become a failure in the future, but I'm not particularly worried about this right now.
Nobody voting yes is actually keeping a meaningful amount of Bitcoin in a Taproot address, can all but guarantee they're bandwagon jumping hypocrites.
My hot wallet is, by utxo count, 97% taproot. My cold storage is 100% taproot but I did that much too early and should have waited for greater adoption and rolled over to a new p2wpkh setup instead.
I remember p2sh taking forever to get used too though, would you say that that was a disaster too?
I'm still going to work on the free internet. But it will be niche. Cloudflare is already a gatekeeper and they will extend their power.
I expect that this means back to the internet of old for me. The internet where we don't care about the masses, where we develop for our peers and we do not pay much attention to corporations.
Remember the EFNet of the 90s?
Yes. The issue with changes to policy having unintended side effects would have eventually been triggered by something else if not taproot.
Learning from this now is better than learning from it in the future.
I expect floods of scams. I wish it wasn't so but I have little hope. 15 years of Bitcoin's code being used for scamming / self-enrichment is probably a good measuring stick?
I read this sentence 5 times:
To address this shift, the NVIDIA SMART framework provides a path forward—optimizing inference across scale, multidimensional performance, architecture, ROI, and the broader technology ecosystem.
And I then decided that you don't need AI for slop. lol.
The main problem is depth, but as @freetx says above, there's a niche area of no-nonsense podcasts and explainer videos that are very doable without needing specific insights.
I'm not sure about the podcast format though - why not just do narrated videos? I made the script for the little joke "podcast" above within a minute and the voice rendering took 280 seconds on my 5 year old MacBook M1 with the small 1.5B vibevoice model (once I figured that it works better to batch it by voice, not try to render it all in 1 shot). Alibaba has released a novel pictures + script to video model that would enable anyone with a 24GB GeForce card to just roll out explainer vids.
"We can confirm that the total amount of government-owned Bitcoin has not increased and that the increase in the Bitcoin Reserve Fund corresponds to movements across government wallets," IMF Communications Officer Meera Louis told Decrypt in an email.
I'm drawing blanks testing if anyone would be benefiting from IMF falsely stating this.
I don't expect Core to remove the config option if it's wanted. Recent quote from sipa 1 also says the that this config setting is unlikely to be removed anytime soon if that's controversial to remove.
It is marked deprecated, which means the option is expected to be removed in a future version, but given the current political dispute around it, I do not expect that will happen any time soon.
If it gets removed, it's easy to patch back in too.
Footnotes
I don't use it since a decade or so.
Discord is echo chamber paradise and it operates like a honeypot, kind of like Telegram.
If you want to start a cult, completely gaslight a large group of people into whatever flavor of extremism your brain appreciates the shortcuts for, this is the platform for you. Just know that everything you say on Discord will be used against you and you may very well get arrested.
lockinontimeoutis the protocol upgradoors wet dream because now you can speedy trial with a preset outcome unless someone does uasf. That stacks all the chips in favor of the smart contract pushing dev.