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Bitcoin is more than English-speaking Bitcoin Twitter
948 sats \ 14 comments \ @south_korea_ln 13h bitcoin
I talked to a friend yesterday who runs his own Bitcoin and Lightning node. He didn't know about the Core-Knots drama. He doesn't use Twitter, just occasionally checks the mailing list. He just laughed when I told him what people are getting riled up about these days—the good old child porn argument (Grammarly just suggested I replace my full stop with an em-dash~~), and the fabricated US-flavored woke/anti-woke rift between the two factions.
Do you know people into Bitcoin around you that don't know (or don't care) about this (imo) non-event? I'd like to not care, but I'm a sucker for this kind of drama, so I end up reading up on it whenever I see some post about it.
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @zapsammy 1h
here's the problem of people who are busy doing the Great Work and try to not get involved in the drama:
just because a man doesn't believe in some ridiculous religion, he is not free from the consequences of behavior of people who do believe in such religion;
what is a man to do? i think that in such a scenario some of the effort of working on Great Things has to be allocated toward re-educating the dumb people; it is way too easy to get caught up in cults!
@south_korea_ln do u think that Korean Drama shows contribute to ur emotional involvement in Bitcoin drama?
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102 sats \ 0 replies \ @Fenix 13h
There's nothing better than that peace of mind. I suppose that in a bitcoinized economy those dramas will be very local and hardly spread among the non-custodial masses.
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54 sats \ 3 replies \ @SimpleStacker 12h
Tell your friend to get on SN!
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77 sats \ 2 replies \ @south_korea_ln OP 12h
He's not much into any type of social media. At least, that's what he says. I've mentioned SN before, so maybe he did join under a nym without telling me. He values privacy more than I do. His profile matches @optimism's very much in terms of his knowledge and thoughts on AI and its limitations, but I'd say that's probably the case with most people seeing through the VC-bullshit narrative.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 57m
Note: I'm not that knowledgable on the topic of AI! GPT and Grok know way more than me (~lol) ... I'm just curious and test things!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @0xbitcoiner 5h
Your friend’s super smart!
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 54m
I've always been exposed to some of it through the dev mailing list and the Bitcoin Core Github, but I could totes do without if I'm honest. I like spending time on real issues, even if they're small, much more.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @030e0dca83 1h
I bet 99% of users don't know about these behind the curtain dramas. I know people who never heard about "ledger recovery" story, they don't know what is UTXO, when I tell them about lightning they think it's about weather. It won't make any obstacles to use Bitcoin the same way people don't know how works current financial system however we use it without problems.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @DarthCoin 4h
I know many OGs (non-english and english speaking) that simply ignore this fabricated drama.
I tend to ignore it too. It will be over soon.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @d680ecaa8e 7h
Could be case for any language not english only
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @nichro 9h
Grammarly just suggested I replace my full stop with an em-dash~~
It tried to frame you as a chatgpt poster!
To answer your question, not many bitcoiners around me who are aware seem to be that worried. I'm not sure if it's because they don't understand or care about the debate. A few technically minded folks that come to mind seem to be aware but busy with other things they have more impact with (building, networking, getting involved in other ways like meetups etc.)
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @OT 11h
It would be nice to simply work on your craft, stack, save and spend where you can.
I've also been drawn into the drama as I think its important to have an opinion on which direction Bitcoin goes. It's just unfortunately time consuming.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @flat24 12h
Many true Bitcoiners aren't focused on social media hype; they simply have their node, dedicate themselves to studying, and sometimes to mining. And they already know they're helping to build the money of the future.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 13h
Maybe everyone around us is already using Bitcoin... meaning they don't really care about Core vs Knots.
And we just don't even know it.
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