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Hot take: The terms autotroph and heterotroph are backwards. Trees don't eat wood, but people do eat meat.

ICYMI, Evolving Bitcoin's Code, the Bitcoin 2023 panel discussion with a focus on scaling Bitcoin, was recently posted online. Featuring Tadge Dryja, my and Amiti, with myself as host. youtu.be/cm6yBsJdeyk

My favo(u)rite line in this trial so far: "Try."

Overlooked environmental / existential benefit of PoW: Each TSMC wafer etched with SHA256d ASICs is one fewer floating point AI wafer for the paperclip hypnodrone singleton.

Reject the idea that ecash is a scaling solution for Bitcoin. At this point, ecash is "just" the best form of custody we have but custody doesn't scale Bitcoin. We can't be lazy and reliant on trusted third parties for scaling. Bitcoin needs to scale on the protocol level.

Sympathies and long-overdue congratulations to all the great folks who have been attacked by faketoshi. We're finally in the "grind extremely fine" phase.

"Move the lightning node to the cloud", they said, "it solves all our problems", they said. Sadly...it does not (unless you want it to be custodial).

The real-world/Bitcoin boundary layer continues to confound: At 2024's largest Bitcoin conference, they wouldn't let me bring a laptop. ...and "they" were the United States Secret Service.

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20% ON THE EU, 34% ON CHINA, 46% ON VIETNAM, 24% ON JAPAN, 49% ON CAMBODIA, 25% ON SOUTH KOREA, 36% ON THAILAND, 47% ON MADAGASCAR, 38% ON GUYANA

Why run a node? Running a node is the only way to know you have bitcoin. - Tadge Dryja MIT Bitcoin Club #mitbitcoinexpo

They've been distracting you with meaningless op_return and sats drama. Meanwhile, the elite core devs have pushed through a consensus hard fork, already fully ACK'd and merged into master. Wake up, sheeple! github.com/bitcoin/bitcoi…