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You are confused. “Policy” in Bitcoin is codified by the consensus rules. Nodes enforce adherence to the consensus rules: no mined blocks that break consensus rules shall be added to their copy of the chain. The consensus rules are hard-coded into the protocol, and the version of bitcoin software you run determines which protocol rules you are enforcing. Mempool forwarding settings are not policy, and are of little consequence. Find something more interesting to worry about.

2026-03-08 21:21:36 UTC

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Experienced software developers will remain in high demand.

2026-02-23 21:57:15 UTC

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Someone should make a Slack clone that uses NOSTR. 💪

2026-02-23 03:33:56 UTC

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Amazing. I need to work on this. 🧠

2026-02-23 02:13:28 UTC

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You’re confused because your premise is wrong. It was a change to the default value of a client side preference, not “a cap”. Users can set the value as they please. It’s not a consensus rule that miners heed, it’s a client side setting, which ultimately doesn’t matter, and also, nothing is “forced through” - you can still set a low value if you’re into incentivizing permanent storage of redundant data over optional storage in a prunable (throw-away) field, for some reason. Nobody has to accept the default value.

2026-02-23 02:03:16 UTC

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Part of the calculus for miners when considering switching to Bitcoin Luke’s Vision (BLV), which they might if fees are higher over there due to transactions finding it harder to get included because of lack of miners, is the cost of turmoil and disruption on the Bitcoin market. Degradation of confidence could be devastating for hard-earned institutional buy-in. I highly doubt that anywhere close to half of the network will be interested in the latest narcissist-lead, fear-driven, fringe-group fork. May BLV be shorter lived than BSV.

2026-02-23 01:50:30 UTC

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Bitcoin LV 😅💩

2026-02-23 01:20:10 UTC

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That’s what the Bcashers thought. Didn’t work out too well for them.

2026-02-23 01:18:40 UTC

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Same, SSDs are so much nicer. I want quiet, low power, and fast for something I’m running at home, 24/7.

2026-02-22 16:26:29 UTC

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Yes, really. Decentralization is a priority, so nodes must be affordable.

2026-02-02 02:51:17 UTC

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“Russia Russia Russia”
https://blossom.primal.net/fe6ecd30d01fd4f2af73b4dc582f05da2074b81624234dcc447c8d563560db7f.jpg

2026-02-02 02:25:03 UTC

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Not true. The 1:10 ratio was discarded long ago, it’s more like 1:100 now.

2026-01-30 20:56:24 UTC

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“Wants to” does not necessarily mean “will”, following an analysis of the data…

2026-01-30 16:34:23 UTC

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You mean the Gravy Seals?

2026-01-29 18:59:03 UTC

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Yep.
White supremacist and far-right extremist violence is considered the top domestic terrorism threat to the United States, according to law enforcement officials, intelligence assessments, and independent researchers. Since 2018, white supremacists have conducted the majority of lethal attacks and plots among domestic violent extremists in the U.S..
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_terrorism_in_the_United_States

2026-01-29 01:03:53 UTC

Florida Tourism Collapse: Trade War with Canada Impact
Ouch! 280,000 jobs and $52 billion in lost revenue in just one state, due to soured relations with Canada. Decades of relationships erased in a year.
FTA:
> For Florida workers, the consequences were immediate and personal. Service sector wages stagnated as labor demand collapsed. Healthcare access declined as private clinics closed. Working-age residents began leaving the state altogether, accelerating population churn and weakening consumer demand even further. What began as a tourism shock evolved into a labor market crisis.
> …
> Tourist tax revenues collapsed by as much as 50% in some jurisdictions. Infrastructure projects were frozen. School districts cut programs. Emergency reserves were drained at record speed. This was the moment the illusion ended: Florida was not experiencing a downturn—it was confronting the consequences of a trade war that transformed consumer trust into a strategic fault line.
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> The fiscal consequences are compounding. Property tax shortfalls are forcing counties to raise rates on remaining residents, accelerating affordability crises. School districts face chronic underfunding as tourism-linked revenues fail to recover. Infrastructure maintenance is deferred, not delayed. Deferred maintenance becomes decay. Decay drives further out-migration. The feedback loop tightens.
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> Internal planning models used by regional development agencies indicate that even under the most optimistic assumptions, no more than 30% of former Canadian winter spending is projected to return over the next decade. That implies a structural loss of roughly $35 to $40 billion in annual economic activity. This is not a recessionary dip—it is a reset. The scale is comparable to the long-term decline of a major industrial sector, except this collapse did not originate from global competition or automation. It originated from political miscalculation.
> …
> That mismatch explains why the United States failed to anticipate the scale of damage now unfolding across Florida and other tourism-dependent regions. Policymakers focused on factories, ports, and export balances while ignoring a far larger vulnerability: services, consumer trust, and allied behavior. Tourism was classified as discretionary, apolitical, and resilient. That assumption proved catastrophically wrong.
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> In reality, Canadian travel to the United States functioned as a fo
https://www.whatjobs.com/news/florida-tourism-collapse-how-trade-war-with-canada-erased-280000-jobs-and-52-billion/

2026-01-28 17:25:33 UTC

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Amazing that trading/charting software can accommodate that many digits!

2026-01-27 23:06:06 UTC

Germany urged to repatriate £122bn in gold from Trump’s ‘risky’ America
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2026/01/25/germany-urged-to-repatriate-122bn-in-gold-from-america/

2026-01-27 22:39:52 UTC

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Yeah, in LatAM, bribing judges is much easier!

2026-01-26 03:39:10 UTC

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It’s a game changer. Amazing in CC, but also the new CoWork feature in the desktop app, for other tasks.

2026-01-25 20:01:05 UTC

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Civil War 2.0 playing out as planned 🍿

2026-01-25 19:58:17 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/3c6694cf16fff391931f10aedb26a6e819281e4639c6f6cdc6a9e28b6f4a2dcc.jpg

2026-01-22 17:44:19 UTC

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Haha yah I’ve never been a fan of Microsoft operating systems, but Gates stepped down in 2008.

2026-01-22 16:24:36 UTC

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lol @ “revelation of…” yeah let me pull something out of my ass to give you more revelations 😆
A photo of them together proves nothing. Do you know Epstein did more than just creep on young women? He was also involved in big financial ventures, and as a result interacted with a lot of rich people for that. His interactions were not confined to only fellow creeps. The assumption that everyone who ever talked to him is also a sexual predator is crazy. Literally impossible. Get a grip!

2026-01-22 07:25:13 UTC

Canadian PM Mark Carney at Davos: the rules-based international order is over
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btqHDhO4h10
The full (and translated) text of the address is available [here](https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/mark-carney-speech-davos-rules-based-order-9.7053350).
So many bangers in this speech:
> Let me be direct: We are in the midst of a rupture, not a transition.
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> Over the past two decades, a series of crises in finance, health, energy and geopolitics have laid bare the risks of extreme global integration.
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> But more recently, great powers have begun using economic integration as weapons. Tariffs as leverage. Financial infrastructure as coercion. Supply chains as vulnerabilities to be exploited.
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> You cannot "live within the lie" of mutual benefit through integration when integration becomes the source of your subordination.
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> And pragmatic in recognizing that progress is often incremental, that interests diverge, that not every partner will share our values. So we're engaging broadly, strategically, with open eyes. We actively take on the world as it is, not wait around for a world we wish to be.
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> We are calibrating our relationships so their depth reflects our values. And we're prioritizing broad engagement to maximize our influence, given the fluidity of the world order, the risks that this poses, and the stakes for what comes next.
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> Middle powers must act together because if we're not at the table, we're on the menu.
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> But I'd also say that great powers can afford, for now, to go it alone. They have the market size, the military capacity and the leverage to dictate terms. Middle powers do not. But when we only negotiate bilaterally with a hegemon, we negotiate from weakness. We accept what's offered. We compete with each other to be the most accommodating.
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> This is not sovereignty. It's the performance of sovereignty while accepting subordination.
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> In a world of great power rivalry, the countries in between have a choice: compete with each other for favour or to combine to create a third path with impact.
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> We shouldn't allow the rise of hard power to blind us to the fact that the power of legitimacy, integrity and rules will remain strong — if we choose to wield them together.
https://stacker.news/items/1417213

2026-01-22 06:17:37 UTC

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Compile it on Luke’s compromised server, like his distro, just to follow trend

2026-01-22 06:16:31 UTC

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Brutal. Time for the Dutch to exit the system and HODL bitcoin in anonymous wallets they own, outside of state surveillance.

2026-01-22 06:04:00 UTC

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Do you believe every crackpot conspiracy theory online? Do you also think 5G signals spread mind control viruses and the moon landing was fake?
```
No, it is not true that Bill Gates has been banned from any country. Claims circulating on social media suggesting he has been banned, arrested, or kicked out of countries like India or Kenya are false and have been debunked by fact-checkers.
Here are the details regarding the situations often cited in these false claims:
India (Vaccine Trials): Rumors claimed Gates was kicked out of India or faced trial for illegal vaccine trials. In reality, a HPV vaccine study in 2010 (funded by the Gates Foundation) was halted, but not because of a ban or criminal action against Gates. The project faced controversy after local deaths occurred, which were later found to be unrelated to the vaccine.
Kenya (Diplomatic Immunity): In late 2024, the High Court of Kenya suspended special diplomatic immunity privileges granted to the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. While the foundation subsequently withdrew from a "Host Country Agreement" that provided these special privileges, this is not a ban on Bill Gates or his work in the country.
Conspiracy Theories: The allegations of bans often stem from broader, unfounded, and "evil" conspiracy theories accusing him of using vaccines for population control or causing the COVID-19 pandemic, which have been widely debunked.
```
It's always much easier to make up bullshit than to debunk it, but Reuters helpfully took on that joyless task for this topic, to help out clueless incels with no critical thinking skills, such as yourself:
https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/list-of-claims-about-bill-gates-includes-falsities-idUSL1N2LO230/

2026-01-22 01:47:33 UTC

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Is there a single shred of evidence for that?

2026-01-22 00:45:28 UTC

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He almost single handedly funded the cure for malaria. How many millions of lives will be saved because of it?

2026-01-22 00:41:16 UTC

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Bitcoin bud

2026-01-20 16:32:31 UTC

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“In charge of everything” — get a grip. What is “everything”? Leaders of the G7 countries? No Jews. President & Director of the World Bank? The IMF? The BIS? Not Jews. WEF leadership? Not Jews. United Nations leadership, also, not Jewish.
Yes, there are many successful people who are also Jewish. So what?

2026-01-20 16:21:02 UTC

GM, $90k gang

2026-01-20 08:49:10 UTC

Good riddance #Iran
https://blossom.primal.net/908763885a26fb816b5325d14e3701ed4e295c3a60974ae4d3b5e0d746f5c628.jpg

2026-01-19 00:25:27 UTC

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“Seem to” if you consume antisemitic propaganda as if it were true. Iran has been pumping that shit out at full volume since they discovered the Internet.

2026-01-18 22:41:25 UTC

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Why post it at all, if your existing narrative is all that matters? It is ironic that this guy is calling for people to listen to each other and respect truth, and is presented in the opposite context?

2026-01-18 22:21:57 UTC

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That is not what he said in this clip. He said we must listen to each other to resolve issues, not only with our brains, but also with our hearts, in order to maintain our humanity in the age of machine intelligence. Ironic that you failed to listen.

2026-01-18 00:54:24 UTC

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Hybrid is best: a knowledgeable developer guiding the AI, step by step.

2026-01-18 00:11:36 UTC

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Use high quality chicken broth, and roast the vegetables first, broil at the end for a tiny bit of char. 🔥

2026-01-17 20:39:12 UTC

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Probably doesn’t matter

2026-01-17 18:20:43 UTC

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Free trade > Protectionism

2026-01-17 01:43:49 UTC

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https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/convoy-protest-emergencies-act-appeal-9.7046769

2026-01-17 01:41:36 UTC

Canadian government is running out of appeal options on the court ruling that found they violated protestors’ charter rights when they illegally invoked the Emergency Powers (aka War Measures) Act to arrest them, seize their assets, and other abuses. Will the politicians involved be personally held to account? 🤔

2026-01-17 01:37:38 UTC

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She explains it well to the non-developers who think this. It’s not going well for the companies that let their senior devs go.
https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqs9ftcn3nawtxlk0gygd43g5228xs5998h50duzycr86hkffvskugqcqel7r

2026-01-17 00:16:20 UTC

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https://blossom.primal.net/0dacdb6e1d8ec9759bf94465feb7c48a6d37113c802c5fabb70878de545ee330.png

2026-01-17 00:14:29 UTC

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Good OpSock 😅

2026-01-15 17:06:37 UTC

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All to fulfill the desire of a senile old crook to create a distraction from his crimes.

2026-01-14 23:06:16 UTC

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lol like Russia has ever respected international law

2026-01-14 23:00:23 UTC

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Silver production has been ramping up to meet the demand with more supply

2026-01-14 08:39:46 UTC

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Will all if the agencies split it among them? Where will the CIA sell it? ❄️

2026-01-13 17:15:08 UTC

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The older you are, the more you understand how difficult it is to coordinate groups of people to achieve anything meaningful, and also how secrets don’t often scale past 2 people. Thus, how highly improbable most conspiracy theories are.

2026-01-13 03:37:32 UTC

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lol