A zap is a microtransaction and somewhat a better appreciation than a like. As @Knut Svanholm β/21M still denies the usefulness of microtransactions he should consequently not have a zapping address on his nostr profile. π
What will be next major version number of Bitcoin Knots? 30 seems to be a tainted number now. From now on only minor numbers? That would also reflect the ossification process.
Taproot may well turn out to have been the last softβfork on Bitcoin. The way the core developers handled the release of versionβ―30 β and that was not even a consensus change β could effectively have closed forever the window on future softβfork proposals.
These books printed by Amazon with large margin and fine print font size are a disgrace and basically wastepaper. It is a shame that such books are also sold outside of the Amazon website.
Bitcoin as a whole is larger than the ego of any of its developer. Long forgotten are Gavin Andresen, Mike Hearn etc. So will be the current ones that still resist to listen to the community and still doubling done with their narrow-minded technical arguments not seeing the social economic dimension of Bitcoin.
Itβs somewhat shortβsighted of some Bitcoiner to claim that the ongoing debate is not important and that Bitcoin will be fine anyway.Β In fact, the very people who care enough to point out the current issues and put in the work are the ones ensuring that Bitcoin stays fine.
