David Freeman
@_DavidSFreeman
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If you wanna learn how to swim, you have to jump in the water. Don't forget to feed Bruiser.
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Joined May 2021
@kiawtzin bitcoin does not need a BIP to be defined as money bitcoin needs to actually be used as money
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human discernment over money is what we are trying to avoid, mechanic
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Review and test (non-trivial) changes: Kernel API Cluster Mempool BIP 54 Fuzzing & related infra Anything milestoned for v31.x Pick an issue labelled āCI Failedā and debug the non determinism. Core has too many changes in flight, and not enough consistent, high quality review.
What would I need to do in order to be considered a voice worth considering when it comes to Bitcoin Core discussions? This is a real question. I'm a technical person. I can read and write code. I've done it in the past. My career has taken me to other places, where I
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knots users forking off will give them their own island to play out the Lord of the Flies, free from any adults
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Two people are about to go to jail for writing software, and half my timeline is arguing how confiscating peoples money isn't confiscation cause reasons. What the fuck is wrong with this space?
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@parman_the the inflation bug in the bitcoin software deviated from the bitcoin protocol's property of inflation resistance it should be supported the proposed protocol change to confiscate bitcoins is deviating from the bitcoin protocol's property of seizure resistance it should be opposed
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Cash on the internet. No auto-updates.
The Bitcoin Core development process and distribution model actually makes it somewhat harder to fix security issues, compared to other serious software distributors. Take Google Chrome as an example. The CVE fixing happy path is to develop and review a fix in private, push that
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@zaidq1818 @BitPaine Ok chiming in here because that first clip is from my podcast, see from around 6 mins to 9 mins or so. What I'm reading her saying there is: "the code as Satoshi made it is not DoS resistant and that's why it needed updates". New use cases there is not about supporting
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is anyone surprised that a sect of bitcoiners who dont value technical experience and instead are driven by *feels* would put out a feel-good proposal and implementation that is technically bankrupt?
Functional tests written for this client, are failing. Fuzz tests are failing. Tests are stubbed out with early returns. Release bins were being uploaded before Guix sigs. If you want to run this, wait for a later release candidate.
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OK Claude, write a soft fork to disallow spam in bitcoin. Make no mistakes.
Functional tests written for this client, are failing. Fuzz tests are failing. Tests are stubbed out with early returns. Release bins were being uploaded before Guix sigs. If you want to run this, wait for a later release candidate.
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this post was before any of the escalating forks btw
Believing that you must act, or else Bitcoin will die, is the core symptom of Bitcoin Derangement Syndrome. Follow what you passionately believe in, but donāt let it consume you. And if you need reassurance that not giving in to emotions is the right path, just look at the
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People who think freezing funds is ok are the true enemies of Bitcoin.
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ladies, if your coredev: -gets an exorbitant salary from VC money -twists definitions to suit their needs -stores a bunch of jpgs in your nodeās closet -blocks others to prevent dissent -wont accept othersā PRs to their code -goes rouge heās not your coredev. heās luke dashjr
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