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My latest single is CTV - a song that tells why I want this soft fork

2015 sats \ 13 comments \ @supertestnet 7 Sep bitcoin

Link to song

CTV

Lyrics

When your blockchain doesn't work at scale
And on lightning your payments start to fail
Don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Well, check out my solution
A small fork called – CTV

Hear my reasons, I'll try to motivate
We'll see fee spikes til we activate
Uh, don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like crying?
Don't you feel like a cry?
Come on, CTV!

Whoa, nothing could be sweeter than a payment pool, you see
In the group, fees are moot, and all transactions free
Yeah, and as more people join, the pool becomes a sea
So come on, run a node and signal for CTV

If you're waiting for devs to get on board
And you never get your voices heard
Won't you feel like crying?
Won't you feel like crying?
Well, you can keep on cry-cry-crying til – CTV
Whoa, cry-cry-cry-cry-crying til – CTV

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131 sats \ 1 reply \ @02ad8239c2 7 Sep

honestly, having scrolled thru various threads of late, i got the impression there wasn't any real organic enthusiasm for another 'feature fork' - the whole taproot thing being associated with all the ordinals/inscriptions garbage that everyone hates is probably the cause of that.

it didn't seem like it was even broad anti fork feelings as such, more of a reluctance to risk more 'unintended consequences' for something that may or may not be 'nice', but doesn't feel particularly imperative/urgent - in contrast, segwit was a long battle, but it got tied up with a cause - ie the narrative of fighting a hostile takeover- that made people rally to it.

you can't fake it to make it though, so if there isn't a 'vital' feel around it, it's probably not going to gain momentum, or attract interest in that way.

just sayin

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supertestnet OP 8 Sep

i got the impression there wasn't any real organic enthusiasm for another 'feature fork'

There isn't much enthusiasm for CTV but there is some. I'm doing my part to bring more enthusiasm to the effort!

more of a reluctance to risk more 'unintended consequences'

Yes, there is a reluctance to that, but I don't think it is an intelligent criticism, it is too vague. Arguing against a fork due to "possible unintended consequences" is essentially equivalent to saying "something bad might happen, not sure what." Which proves too much, because it is equally applicable to all possible actions, including inaction.

When faced with a choice like "should we do nothing or activate CTV or activate something else" I think it is unwise to worry about unnamed maybes (especially after years of research) and instead criticize based on known and identified vulnerabilities, compared with known and identified positives. And if you make that comparison I think CTV really shines.

you can't fake it to make it though

I hope my content is evidence that I'm not faking it, and I hope it attracts more support for CTV

300 sats \ 1 reply \ @Satoshi__Nakamoto 7 Sep

I would like to hear this song on yt

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supertestnet OP 8 Sep

Go ahead, upload it

100 sats \ 2 replies \ @fiatbad 9 Sep

I highly value recommendations from you, because I respect you and your ability (especially after meeting you in person).

I run a node using Start9's infrastructure. Do you know if Start9 has the option to signal for CTV from the UI, or do I have to use the CLI?

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @supertestnet OP 9 Sep

I don't think there is an easy way to do either, and it's mostly a joke, but the line is a reference to this proposal from Floppy Disk Guy

"Regular" full nodes generally don't signal support for a soft fork, with two exceptions: the proposal I just linked to is one exception and the other is bip148, which was controversial and hasn't been used ever since segwit

Mining nodes signal support for a soft fork either via bip8 or bip9

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fiatbad 9 Sep

Ah, yes. I thought it was just a mining node thing only, but I didn't know for sure and started questioning myself when I read that line in your song.

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @SatsMate 8 Sep

Now you just gotta sing this at a bitcoin conference lol

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @supertestnet OP 8 Sep

We'll see -- this one is quite hard to sing for me so I'd kinda prefer to sing some of my other ones at conferences

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @longlifelearner20 8 Sep

well, feel like crying indeed. feeling like crying seeds lol i must say that it is not everyday's post you come through such a priceless poem as well as a song since it is not fiat related yk what i mean haha. it is permissionless crypto. well done fellow. well done.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Golu 8 Sep

I love it.

0 sats \ 1 reply \ @nerd2ninja 8 Sep

LMAO. This wasn't too bad man. There's still more stuff we gotta do before people are confident enough to activate. Like the cargo cult application described in Peter Todd's article lol. We'll get there. This problems of the day change as time goes on and eventually enough people will be done being in defensive mode about it.

300 sats \ 0 replies \ @supertestnet OP 8 Sep

There's still more stuff we gotta do before people are confident enough to activate. Like the cargo cult application described in Peter Todd's article

I think the Covenantless Ark software is probably close enough. Or will be if they release it on mainnet.

Yes to the rest