Ray Dalio @Dr_Mario_MD What you're missing is that you're looking at shallow phenomena which usually change over historical time (e.g. volatility) rather than the huge risks inherent in modern trust-based and fiat money. If you think risk = volatility you won't get it.

Ray Dalio @Dr_Mario_MD Bitcoin is both trust-minimized (even more than gold) yet quite unlike gold digital & easily transferable in its trust-minimized form. It's an unprecedentedly superior form of money, but like anything else new traded in a free market, its historical journey starts off volatile.

An OCEAN miner made a block rejecting all known arbitrary data His block earned 3.134 BTC = $352,969 If he would have included the available trash he would have added an extra 0.00293294 = $325.46 That's an additional 0.09% overall revenue A wise decision that all miners

calle When you open with “core is a group of professionals that’s cares more than any other group” you kinda lost me There are plenty of “professionals” that care more about bitcoin as a monetary system than you guys I can assure you that (and have worked on it for way more than most

Calle is correct that Core developers can rightfully do whatever they want. They are not slaves. They don't owe anyone anything, except maybe the people who are paying them, but let's put that aside for a minute. As an open source dev who builds an open source OS designed for

I think the answer is: "they are developing for the people who want to USE the network" instead of "the people who CREATE the network".

Do Filters Work?

Here's what's going to happen: 1. 100KB OP_RETURNs become standard 2. Someone inevitably broadcasts something that triggers malware detection 3. All Bitcoin cloud infrastructure gets knocked offline 4. Major disruption - exchanges/pools go offline 5. Panic results in band-aid

Stay vigilant, COLDCARD doesn't use JavaScript or NPM as part of the stack. -management

Modus BTC Sessions 😎 We are not affected!

Aqua not affected by today's NPM attack.

If you are getting your direct deposit converted into bitcoin you shouldn't pay fees, Jack Mallers.

BTC Sessions 😎 ⚡️RPL⚡️ No JavaScript all native so no NPM

COLDCARD + Cove unaffected

#vlog 30 Why I Won't Be Upgrading To Bitcoin Core v30

calle Fees protect the miners, but they don't provide enough disincentive to protect the full nodes. This has always been a problem, of course. But increasing the OP_RETURN allowance will likely make this problem worse. It also will increase legal risks.

This doesn't even make sense!

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Hiyoko Yes, I strongly recommend running Knots not Core.