Alan ₿ Watts ⚡️
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"This is it." #Bitcoin
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Joined November 2021
Them: “So you just save in Bitcoin and focus on your craft?”. Me:
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Bitcoin is an electronic cash system, not an electronic jpeg storage system.
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You can lead a pleb to Bitcoin, but you can’t make him stack.
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Bitcoin will emerge from the current node war stronger and more decentralized than ever. Bullish.
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Adam Back had now joined the anti-spam side of the node war. Respect.
Bitcoin is owned by humanity, the protocol developers are stewards, and need consensus from users to change it materially. bitcoin is about money, spam has no place in the timechain. what defaults the bitcoin core project puts in the reference client matter in this.
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Bitcoin is having a Hegelian dialectic with itself, which is good and healthy.
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Node War II will have the same winner as Node War I: The conservative side that seeks to not change Bitcoin.
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One positive side effect of the current node war is it’s driving more people to run nodes, whether Knots or Core.
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“You know in a famous debate that was settled by the sixth patriarch of Zen, there were two monks arguing when a flag was flapping in the wind, whether it was the wind or the flag that was moving. And he said it’s neither. It’s the mind.”. — Alan Watts, Reality, Art, and Illusion
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Excellent video on the Core debacle.
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@5and2fish_bw @GrassFedBitcoin "[Jesus] found in the temple…the bankers sitting. And when He had made a whip of knots, He cast them all out of the temple…and the money of the bankers he poured out, and the tables he overthrew." -John 2:14-15, slightly reworded.
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“They’re running Knots now, even though all the Chaincode Labs devs on our payroll promote Core”
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Happy Labor Day to all who save in Bitcoin and focus on their craft.
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Whether you prefer to run Core, Knots, or something else, it’s good to have multiple full node software options.
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Whenever people think Bitcoin is in a bear market, the bull starts back up again. And whenever people think we are in an eternal bull, the bear returns. Such is the nature of orange coin.
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“History is much more an art than a science. It is a reconstruction by a historian who uses the materials of evidence in the same way that a painter uses paints. And in this way, he reconstructs his version of the past, and if he’s sufficiently persuaded, he convinces other
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