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Bitcoin Tech Talk #478

Interesting Stuff

"Jimmy and I agreed there is no economic incentive to use bigger up returns, right? so it's basically two sides of a coin. If nobody's going to use it, we should not enable it or we are not worried about enabling it, right? But either way, if nobody's going to use it, it's probably a pretty marginal issue." - @Murch I would say that there's no *obvious* economic incentives to use OP_RETURN, not that there were none. And this is an important difference. To say that there are none is to say that you know all possible future things that people might use it for. I don't think anyone can know that. h/t @Bitcoin_To_The_Oblivion

If you don't have a hill you'll die on, your either a coward, a nihilist or both.

Garbage in, garbage out. True for programs, true for brains.

Savings, not debt.

A life without risk is not that different than death. But risk without reward is just masochistic. Risks that have the right amount of reward in them, that's what makes life interesting.

There's a thin line between being charitable and making excuses for other people.

Despite the prevalence of GLP-1 drugs, you can still tell how much self-control and agency people have just by looking at them.