"imposes a hierarchy on the internet"

it's not lame.

it's the end of eternal September

it's the coolest thing ever.

freedom: use it or lose it.

be stouthearted, like an oaken ploughrod that splits the earth under the hot sun so that babes and women can be fed and not weep in doubt and hunger.

riiiiiight

OCEAN is virtue signaling and hiding that miners who spamfilter are free riding on miners who don't. anti-censorship, but not anti spam, is the future of bitcoin:

It's hard being friends with someone who is "special needs."

I think if you are led to this and convicted that you are put in this earth to be a support for this person, then that is what you have to do.

But if it's too much, you can also know when to let go.

Or let go a bit.

Moderation in all things.

Balance is hard.

Condolences also to you and your wife.

Thank you for your work on stacker news, and I hope you will find a way back to the sunny paths.

this should be the top comment.

Darth, are you the author? or did you copy from somewhere?

Great, either way.

36,000 bb in treasuries debt. 148bb in tether.

not exactly a rounding error but also not exactly a lot.

"Why are so many of Bitcoin’s loudest supporters the people I least want to be aligned with?

Trump. Bukele. Putin. Musk, Ken Sim."

Cause you're a moron?

If trump and bukele liked fresh air and babies, are you going to want to live like an incel in a basement?

Anyway if your enemy likes bitcoin that makes it all the more urgent that you get bitcoin before they do.

Hitler liked gold, lol.

IDK, maybe he's not wrong.

But maybe the branding problem is if you are selling to idiots you got to lie and say what idiots want to hear.

Bitcoin doesn't lie. I'm going to say that that's not actually a problem.

Why is it any more centralizing than any other thype of pool?

If it enables miners to more easily derisk their operations from price and hashrate fluctuations, they can concentrate on what they do best

MINE BLOCKS FOR CHEAP

and grow hashrate faster. Which is decentralizing.

What'm I missing?

No, he's right that spam is bad but he's wrong that we can do better than OP_RETURN as least evil sane thing.

a deep and useful comment.

more color

"many of the idiotic 'data storage' things are either intentionally or inadvertently exploiting the fact that behaving abusively about public resources gets them a ton of free attention."

"Fundamentally Bitcoin has already 'solved' the abusive resource use by limiting the total resource usage. I'll be the first to agree that the solution is far from perfect, but the alternative of chasing down the abuse, judging it, blocking it, etc. can easily be much worse and doubly so when it gives them a lot of free press and validation as "important enough to censor" -- a benefit that some parties might even be intentionally behaving abusively to secure."

from Greg Maxwell / null c ( OG dev-bitcoin )