Yeah, the actual monetary inflation is very close to my estimate beforehand — it only is affected by the actual number of blocks found.

What do you mean with "individual inflation"?

Your advertised time and your scheduled time seem to mismatch by a few hours.

I also lived Ready Player One. The Wikipedia article makes the sequel sound like a dud, though.

Just like Matrix—too bad they never made a sequel. :p

“In a world where you can be anything—be kind”

I think the suggestion was to use git, not GitHub.

Would be pretty awesome, if people worked on bills in public in a git repository just like an opensource project, wouldn’t it? And why not, they’re public servants.

Taiwan has adopted a few such ideas in the past years. I listened to this podcast a while back: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/02/podcast-episode-open-source-beats-authoritarianism

Bitboy made that logo in November 2010: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1631.0

The blog post by scronty is full of crap. Tried to gain some fame for being part of Satoshi with that silly tale.

"1 USD = ₿966"

I see that Steak 'n Shake is a BIP 177 early adopter.

One of the top comments: "Subscription based streaming services need to understand that their entire business model is built on being slightly more convenient than piracy"

John Carvalho’s proposal to refer to sats as bitcoins:

As the old adage goes—The first rule of Bitcoin club is to always talk about Bitcoin. The second rule of Bitcoin club is to never talk about your bitcoins. ;)

Sounds like you had a blast! After recently relocating I was feeling a bit miffed about how long of a drive it would be to get to the local Bitcoin meetup, but after I went the first time and ended up just talking to people for three hours straight, I had a similar realization as you.

Yeah, I saw that, too. That sounds like a really cool building material. I wonder how cost-effective it is.

Good question. I think I have covered that topic here already: #971342

Right, we can’t force them, but we can make OP_RETURN data more attractive than writing to payment outputs.

It seems to me that you could have done the same reveal trick with P2SH, but you would have been limited to 520 bytes, because the redeem script has to fit in a single push and 520 bytes is the maximum push size.

achow101 says that the migration tool will handle other BDB versions as well, because the BDB file format didn't change between versions.

If you want to write a BIP, please check out BIP 2 which provides guidelines for would-be BIP authors.

Part of the legacy wallet removal project was that Ava wrote a new minimal read-only implementation of BDB that has all the parts we need for being able to read legacy wallets indefinitely. The wallet migration tool will be part of all future releases of Bitcoin Core.

If the profitability goes down too much, there may be a build-up of unused hardware that could potentially be used to attack the chain more profitably than to contribute to writing new blocks.