Why do so many maxis dislike you? Serious question. I only know about the sellout & shitcoiner arguments but donโt really know if youโre a good guy or a bad guy in this story.
Lopp didnโt you support XT which had actual blacklisting and tor fuckery in it.
I mean since Odell is fine digging up things from 10 years ago to attack Luke.
The real question is: when the government forces companies like RIOT and MARA to censor transactions, will they comply or move their hashrate to a different jurisdiction? How will market participants respond to their decision. And how long before capital controls become โthose machines donโt leave our bordersโ controls?
Welcome to the future motherfuckers
Maybe not pools exclusively, but someone is paying attention and taking notes.
Yes. And if they are juicing the mempool with garbage ordinals, eventually that ponzi will die out.
In the meantime, everyone learns a *little* more about lightning and node configuration.
Canโt stop the signal.
Lol. Hashrate will move, regardless. Their may be pain during transition but the net result will be even more decentralized mining as the non-โpublicโ miners move to other locations/pools with better conditions.
Either the economics of bitcoin work, or they donโt. They are based on allowing the free market to do its thing. I donโt believe this can be stopped. If authorites squash/capture one market, two free ones will pop up to replace it due to incentives alone.
Nah, if there is any brains at all with the authorities, best to keep a quiet eye on it as-is less they force it adapt and decentralize even further. China made a big mistake. I suspect the IS may learn from that.
Hope youโre right. We donโt have a free market in the US and yet the world dumps its capital here all the same because of the incentives at the margins.
Itโs wise not to underestimate our central planners. While we think theyโre schmucks, theyโve not been unsuccessful on a macro level thus far.
Perhaps because I say what I think rather than conforming to whatever the current popular narrative is; I've been cancelled countless times.
Also, I think there's plenty of room for non-Bitcoin crypto networks that offer different utility. I explore many technologies and I don't apologize for it.
People tend to form a mental model of me based upon my posts they've seen, then they get upset when I do something that breaks their model.
IDK about "good" vs "bad" guy because it's subjective. I consider myself good because I've educated many people and also helped many folks secure their funds. I don't defraud folks - the services I provide are quite transparent, even if some folks disagree with them.
I supported BIP101 which was implemented in XT.
You're thinking about a change that deprioritized connections from tor exit nodes to mitigate DoS attacks conducted via tor to fill up connection slots. I was neutral on that one.
Never meet your heroes. ๐
shitcoiner and sellout are not enough?
Yes that was indeed the sus rationale used at the time to attempt to destroy privacy in Bitcoin.
Even better, donโt have heroes. Be your own if anything!
Who? Lopp?
I get your point.
But every tyranny, every empire before them has fallen. I see no reason to believe this one is different.
You canโt put the genie back in the bottle. The idea is now out there. This is why you donโt need to hope in bitcoin, you can *know*.
Youโre only hope is we get it right the first time, for everyoneโs sake. But if we donโt, then we will try again. And again. And again. Entire races have seen generations come and go in pure slavery, and yet we keep gaining ground.
Mankindโs instinct and fate is to wrestle with and balance freedom and tyranny.
