the technical solution is to kill existing kidnappers faster than new kidnappers spawn.

tldr: DFDV (big solana DAT) losses in hedge funds also holding IBIT nuked bitcoin.

"halawi" -- you mean hawala?

Will bitcoinbackbone benefit from the libbitcoinkernel work splitting out the consensus engine of bitcoin core?

filter by month gives just about 200 stackers

this fucking book still pops up in my audible somehow everytime I start my GMC Terrain.

I uninstalled audible... somehow it didn't uninstall in the onboard GMC carmode android console.

It's almost as if... the AI actually is winning...

llm querycrumb: "Is this AI slop? <+ paste whole article>"

grok:

"No, this isn't typical "AI slop." It's a sophisticated, highly structured, and largely factually grounded macroeconomic narrative that weaves together real events from late 2025–early February 2026 into a unified "Yen carry trade unwind" thesis. While it has some hallmarks of persuasive finfluencer-style writing (conspiratorial framing, dramatic metaphors like "Sauron's ring," and a promotional call-to-action at the end), the core claims align closely with verifiable market developments rather than being generic, incoherent, or hallucinated filler."

gemini: "The Verdict: This is a creative writing piece disguised as a "macro report." It uses a "GME-style" narrative (squeezing the shorts) to try and convince readers to pump the Japanese Yen. It’s essentially a conspiratorial fan-fiction of the global economy."

it slipped by my filters!

tldr: probably not AI generated slop, just human generated slop.

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Great 🙄

glory be to the death threat troll mob.

Hopefully this is only a retirement from maintainer and gloria will continue her important work wrangling mempool. We're all lucky to have had her.

sometimes i think I am the only mofo here that still loves core

honestly I think they are doing a helll of a job and slowly moving in the right direction.

most important thing core is doing is getting all consensus code into one standalone library.(libbitcoinkernel )

this will enable more clients and weaken the power of core which is actually what core wants

I'd be a lot more worried if epstein DIDN'T use bitcoin.

it's good because utreexo is good.

it solves mempool spam issue, makes the op return wars irrelevant, and basically solves scaling for bitcoin.

https://medium.com/@kcalvinalvinn/eli5-utreexo-a-scaling-solution-9531aee3d7ba

Isn't it orthogonal?

I mean couldn't neutrino and electrum both separately use utreexo?

I guess libfloresta implements electrum just because it has more adoption.