Think for yourself = think beyond the words. I am not a doctor. None of what I say is medical advice. None of what I say is financial advice. I own some BSV.
@truthstreamnews
@WomenBeingAwful
To those saying "she should turn herself on," she was for example watching TV so he wasn't even engaging her, they weren't even chatting, hugging, kissing, etc. Not even focused on each other. How is she supposed to get turned on?
Basic stuff. How do you expect sex if no kiss?
There are no virologists.
Anyone calling themselves a "virologist" is just a hopelessly confused toxicologist.
The essence of their "work" is to poison cells in a petri dish and tell creative stories about the shapes that emerge when the cells die.
@kathymitchell56
I'm so sorry to hear that.
This giant media overreaction to what is in fact just part of seasonal flu and cold variation is shining a light on the great tragedy of sessonal flu and cold deaths. Most of these can be prevented wity better diet and more sunlight.
An analogous evil was teaching that the economy's natural cleaning cycles are "recessions" and requires stimulating the economy to avoid.
And that wildfires should be aggressively extinguished.
And that common law needs beefing up with regulation.
Get the picture?
Cypherpunks want to keep gov from shutting down Bitcoin by hiding in anonymity. What they never understood is that Bitcoin lives and dies by the economics. A widespread ban kills the economics, thus kills Bitcoin.
Incentives are the key to survival. It MUST appeal to government.
Those who claimed the Bitcoin design didn't work and needed to be radically changed are the same ones who now insist that their new creation be called Bitcoin and cry foul when a minority sticking to the original design call that original Bitcoin design Bitcoin.
#Gaslighting
@chicorysky1
@Barnes_Law
There is no weaponization. The virus is a nothingburger. The data have been cooked in every possible way to make people panic. No need to engineer a bio-weapon when people are so easily fooled by statistics.
Virology is not a science; it's not even so much a model as a social phenomenon.
As with all pseudosciences, there is no hard set of definitions, procedures, nor even positions in the "field" but rather a set of games played with the goal of preserving the social structure.
Excellent point here:
For every person fooled into buying BCH thinking it's BTC, many times more people are fooled into buying BTC thinking it has something to do with the original Bitcoin vision.
The elephant in the room on virology is that the top virologists and institutions worldwide ALL agree with the basic premise of the virology skeptics: that no virus has ever been isolated and purified from a human host.
The disagreement is solely on the significance of that.
We've reached a point in the USA where it would be an economic disaster for Big Pharma, Big Agra, and Big Food if people starting eating right and exercising. Literally every single Fortune 500 company in those industries would go bankrupt.
@AxelSavage4
Monkeypox is chickenpox/measles/smallpox/shingles. Just the body detoxing through the skin. No "pandemic." Possible after the vaxxes there will be a cleansing but...not a pandemic. They'll come up with "tests," and counting methods and reporting guidelines..still not a pandemic.
Just for the record, before the trial reveals more, it has been painfully obvious since 2016 to those who had read what Craig Steven Wright had written publicly by then, that he is and was Satoshi Nakamoto.
If your coin doesn't have regular reorgs (orphans), something is wrong. Miners are failing to push the envelope.
Orphaning is arguably the most ingenious part of Satoshi's design.
Reorgs don't affect users; they smarten the coin by enriching good miners at poor ones' expense.
@PheeneZ
@ProfFaustus
The nature of the battle is the winner is never decided until one side dies. Just more and more solidified as time goes on. Check back in a month or two.
The situation with BTC and BSV is the most uncanny in all of Bitcoin's history.
Most of the excitement around BTC right now is from products created by companies who believe BSV is the real Bitcoin.
If you don't understand why, it's probably worth your while to find out.
Decentralization is decentralization of POWER.
Mining is the only power in the network. Any other decentralization isn't worthy of the name.
Japanese distinguishes:
①分散(distributed)
②分権/非中央集権(no central power)
Core is obsessed with ① but what matters is ②.
@BakxDavid
* 128 MB blocks are an insanely stupid idea.
* Every technical proposal CSW has put forward is so stupid it makes the iota team look like it's run by Dan Boneh.
* You can't not talk about CSW because who else does BSV have?
* No idea what their vision or goal even is.
@Inversionism
Toxicologists would have liked a word with these vaccinologists, but toxicologist are almost certainly persona non grata in this whole process.
Q: What happened in the August 2017 chain split?
A: Bitcoin split into two chains. One is a radical redesign. The other returns to the original Bitcoin design but is now being called Bitcoin Cash because it is the road less traveled.
Image via
@beijingbitcoins
"The dose makes the poison" is incorrect.
Natural food, water, air, sunlight, and other essential bodily inputs are all fatal in excess, but that doesn't make them poisons.
What distinguishes poisons is that they are harmful at EVERY dose. A tiny dose is merely less harmful.
Bitcoin with blocksize scaling launched in 2009, kicked off the crypto revolution, worked amazingly well and attracted millions of people.
BTC with uninvented layer2 scaling has no whitepaper, no history of working well, and would've attracted few if Satoshi had proposed it.
The Shot Heard 'Round the Cryptosphere
With sincerity and grace, heretofore neutral and silent head-down prolific coder/builder
@_unwriter
issues a 700-ton nuclear wake-up call to the ecosystem.
Even in its nascent form, Metanet is already proving there is much more that people want to buy and sell than they ever knew. Who knew they wanted to pay a microscopic fee to post an immutable comment onto a site that has no comment section?
(3/3)
CSW skeptics owe it to yourself to give Craig a listen at least once a year. I'm at a loss for words to even describe how far ahead in his understanding of Bitcoin he is.
Yet another heavyweight decides to take the heat for stating the truth.
"Things in this case have become emotional. And it is a kind of strong emotional disbelief that can be overcome only by very high level of intelligence and rationality."
The competitive mining process, especially after the subsidy fades and miner income is mainly transaction fees, where miners take entrepreneurial risks in pushing the capacity envelope, is the beating heart of capitalism in Bitcoin.
The Death of Theory (thread)
1. Theorizing has become taboo.
WTF happened to theorizing? Notice it's been hidden in the mystical process of hypothesis formulation. A hypothesis is just a prediction, not a theory of how some underlying mechanisms could have resulted in the data.
@MZietzke
Reorging (orphaning) is arguably the most ingenious aspect of Bitcoin's design. If you hear about a reorg you should rejoice: a less competent miner just lost money to more competent miners. Bitcoin is working as intended. If reorgs aren't happening often, miners are slacking off
1) Hiding a block violates Section 5, part 4 of the unilateral contract: miners must publish a block when they find it.
2) End users are unaffected by mining attacks.
3) Code changes are not protocol changes. Miners compete to optimize the mining network against attacks.
Blockchain described in 1999.
Bitcoin just added mining and SPV.
Core removed SPV and tries to remove miners as verifiers by Sybil attacking them with "full nodes."
"Design of a secure timestamping service with minimal trust requirements" (Ref
#2
in WP)
A statement of my opposition to BUIP095 (OP_CHECKDATASIG and OP_CHECKDATASIGVERIFY) and any inclusion of DSV-like opcodes in Bitcoin Unlimited and in the Bitcoin and/or Bitcoin Cash blockchains:
Bitcoin SV is the opposite of an altcoin. Instead of trying to add things in order to scale and gain functionality, SV is about subtracting things that were added to Bitcoin that have slowed and limited it.
As in everything, much of progress is in stopping doing the wrong thing.
"Code is not law. Code is evidence." -CSW
The meaning of this took me years to grasp. Bitcoin is Layer 2. Longstanding Western legal tradition around money is Layer 1.
Bitcoin is merely a hyper-efficient proxy for what is anticipated to find broad global legal agreement.
@MikaelThalen
Keep in mind Japan has NOT been social distancing, not in the slightest. Yet despite being among the first "hit" by corona, it has only 45 deaths so far.
What about masks? Despite high mask usage every winter, Japan has similar flu death rates to the USA.
Lockdown? None.
@FS27254626
@MikeDonio
There are no vaccines on the market that have ever been properly tested for carcinogenicity, toxicity, etc.
They are tested against other another vaccine as the placebo, which is circular reasoning.
@jaimeraulmolina
@drjamesdinic
The list of things they get right would most be in trauma and emergency care. On chronic illness, the mainstream is lost upon lost upon lost.
@ChuckCallesto
YES. There should never have been such a stupid order in the first place. Corona is less than a flu, and even if it were 10x worse it would be stupid to lockdown healthy people. At most the at-risk people should have been *recommemded* to stay home and get sun and good food.
@Bitcoin
In this thread: Most of the Core fans don't even realize that all the main Core coders admit they are deviating from the whitepaper design, because they think it is broken.
The original design is broken and BTC is a new experiment, or it isn't and BCH is Bitcoin. Choose one!
A BTC investor is someone convinced that Wall Street is on its way to a system that cannot handle the transaction volume of a small town let alone the world, with fees higher than most of the world's citizens' savings, pushed by a bunch of anti-business volunteers.
What "softfork" could Core introduce that wouldn't be part of Bitcoin consensus in BTC supporters' eyes?
"Automatically, since Core releases it, it is Bitcoin. If another team goes against Core's consensus, it is an attack on Bitcoin. Core is Bitcoin. Bitcoin is Core."
Saying, "If you don't believe in viruses, go hug an ebola patient!" is equivalent to someone who believes a house is haunted saying, "Go in there, then!" knowing society will shun and subject the person to forcible nonsense due to "the curse."
It shows a shallowness of thought.
@denisrancourt
Not just DDT, also lead arsenate, prescription arsenic (yeah that was a thing), and other heavy metal poisoning. Mind that in the 1950s "polio" was a blanket term covering all sorts of paralytic conditions. These conditions now have new names and haven't gone away at all.
The only people who think you can find "viruses" by viewing human tissue or fluids under a microscope are members of the lay public.
If people knew the real process virologists use, the world would be a very different place.
I used to think paywalls were the epitome of buzzkill.
Now I realize paywalls weren't the problem; the problem was the pricing and payment friction. An always-on option to swipe and pay a few cents for a quality read makes having to settle for lower quality and ads a buzzkill.
As a staunch libertarian, I'm flabbergasted that people balk when I merely point out that this doesn't make me immune to the laws of the land. Likewise crypto doesn't magically sit above law.
Bitcoin escapes regulation ONLY because it was carefully designed around existing law.
@robinmonotti
The flu is just a loose constellation of symptoms created by the body. The symptoms exist, so the flu exists by definition. It has nothing to do with "viruses," of course. It is a very useful cleaning process.
@SeatacBCH
@Adrian_Xt
@PeterRizun
@ProfFaustus
In other words, BCH needs to be ready to go, "FOOM!" A vessel primed for success. Uncapped blocksize allows miners to seamlessly increase their capacity to catch all those new transaction fees, scale up and professionalize.
Testing 32MB for 6 months seems fine though.
Communists: "We have learned more since Adam Smith."
Core: "We have learned more since Satoshi."
The communists never understood capitalism. Core never understood Bitcoin. Both groups were in vogue for a time before becoming painfully obvious failures.
@MurdockCapt
@BigDataBryce
@zbingledack
I am aware that some people are overly enamored with the whitepaper, but it's painfully obvious that a decade of experience, experimentation, and research has refined our understanding of Bitcoin.
I sat down with
@derykmakgill
to talk about various facets of economics and why it matters for Bitcoin.
Deryk is someone who totally "gets it" in my opinion. Enjoy!
(Audio gets fixed a few mins in)
@lopp
The newcomers tried to change the original design plan, but Bitcoin survived as BCH.
It's funny how you tacitly acknowledge that the majority can be wrong, while failing to notice that with that argument taken away, BTC has not even a single claim over BCH as the real Bitcoin.
Bitcoin: an efficient legal records (notary) system that is reliable because it requires a jurisdictional hashpower-weighted supermajority of the world's governments to alter transactions, and there is never an incentive for these govs to collude to break sound money properties.
Getting
#BCH
ready to onboard every single person alive as the commercial plumbing that powers the world.
No artificial limits on transaction volume or the complexity of the conditions that determine who gets paid what.
"Spam attacks" are most welcome!
RFK Jr. at Michigan rally: “I’m gonna put the entire US budget on blockchain”
“Every American can look at every budget item in the entire budget, anytime they want, 24 hours a day.”
“We’re gonna have 300 million eyeballs on our budget, and if somebody is spending $16,000 for a…
The right to fork away is balanced by the right to kill competing SHA256 chains, as they constitute an existential threat.
What you do with your part of the liferaft is NOT permissionless.
Don't expect miners to permit silly ideas on the same hash function.
CSW's thesis proposal serves as a nice little study guide to the first part of the whitepaper. Pages 5 to 10 in the proposal are packed into a single paragraph in the WP.
Also, "trusted model" is an academic term (see image).
@JihanWu
@RYUBCH
It's called Nakamoto consensus.
"They vote with their CPU power, expressing their acceptance of valid blocks by working on extending them and rejecting invalid blocks by refusing to work on them. Any needed rules and incentives can be enforced with this consensus mechanism" -SN