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So are you of the opinion we should continue making changes Bitcoin, introduce new unknown unknowns, based on these speculative feels?
Or do you concede that it was a mistake to activate Taproot based on guesses and chance?
Carla Rover once spent 30 minutes sobbing after having to restart a project she vibe coded.
Vibe coding has turned jr devs into experts in change control
it has not been a complete game changer
I think that's the crux of any argument, where the bar for introducing unknown unknowns is.
Since it hasn't been a game changer, resulting in lukewarm adoption at best so far, proponents got it through on pure speculation and hype rather than substance and that is a very dangerous precedent.
Yea proponents should do more write-ups like that so people can see how retarded they are and track the narrative pivots over time... Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Just months ago it was a scaling solution
Largely the premise of "The accidental super power" by Peter Zeihan
True but also backwards looking, technological asymmetry closes the gap, space is the next war fighting domain for example...
Zeihan also talks about the culture that is unique to Americans, in some part because of our geographic advantages... We won't tolerate anything less than greatness and manifest destiny, whereas your average europoor or arduous marching Chinese see struggle as virtue
More the general mind virus imo but yea speedy trial is part of that
Yea miners are not a last line of defense, if anything they're more of a liability, high time preference can easily manifest itself there due to the economics. Stupidity is a given, Bitcoin only works because an overwhelming majority of them have to be stupid all at the same time to fuck it up.
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oh no... I have to get to work today so won't take the privacy bait ;)
but yea with hot its fine for experiments
Cold ... frost ... retard
Privacy again oof...
FROST is an interesting concept though, have looked at it in context of nostr identity re: @bitcoinplebdev's project... but not convinced yet on the Bitcoin side it's any better than multisig or shamir, I also don't spend much time thinking about vaulting products... yet. I do anticipate getting into that rabbit hole for ShockWallet eventually. The ultimate irony would be if I'm the one to actually make it useful.
It reflects economic reality, without these upgrades the base ticket would have to cost more, meaning less foot traffic because that would price more people out
It's like taxing the rich, but the you can't complain when the rich get better service because now you depend on them for revenue
Personally I'd prefer the UX of a higher priced standard ticket and have less people in the park overall, but then economies of scale would probably make that standard ticket even closer to the cost of an upgraded ticket today
It's basically a subsidy to the lower income as constructed, but also why park UX sucks... Something something socialism
Activated too soon AND still no compelling use-case or adoption... that's a failure along the same axis
The the proof-of-vulnerability is that it was activated at all... The one covenants are now attempting to exploit
Between you and @nout we've found the bulk of Taproot outputs....
Why do you use it? What's it doing it wasn't before?
The disaster is in the precedent it set, that useless forks can be astroturfed into activation... And now every shitcoiner that thinks Bitcoin should be an application stack is pushing for new ops
Not every psyop is a success, the enemy gets a vote, entropy gets a vote, the citizenry is a force multiplier with no allegiances, but still everything is a psyop.
Trump and Xi loyalists are working together against the globalists to defend their own countries national sovereignties.
Enjoy the psyop and buy some NSA coin.
Where's the limit?
They print the money, blackmail the CEO's, backdoor the chips and software, license the media, regulate the ISP's, permit the transports, make their own ballot machines, control the schools and colleges, appropriate the energy, threaten the judges... They have more agencies than you can name, more front organizations than real ones.
The only limit is their ambition.
Its much more mature to assume that there is nobody at the wheel
No, that's just naive. Just because you can't plan your way out of a paper bag doesn't mean that the people with nearly unlimited resources are as inept.
Intel agencies literally exist to effect what you deny.
people usually find it exceedingly difficult to align
Yes, that's why government is a battlefield of factions, factions that spare no expense to form battle plans.
the hostility of the Dems and the way the national security apparatus has been going after Trump?
Battlefield. Not as clearly demarcated as NSA vs CIA or party vs party, either faction has assets deployed among the other. If the apparatus was aligned against Trump he'd never have made it into office, he has to be protected by a faction within it.
It's not politics, it's a clandestine civil war, and Bitcoin is a COunter INsurgency operation... The insurgents being globalists.
... Or even a material amount across all addresses total.
Proponents would seem to be either afraid of using it, or lied about their urgent use-cases all along.
On a purely relative basis, a proponents burden of proof is that they're no less "safe" than address types with a longer track record... But they won't put any skin in the game on their experiment.