BIP-110 and the Fight for Bitcoin's Future with Hodlonaut | Bitcoin Infinity Show #191

Strong interview with very interesting points.The fact that financial service providers must always chase higher returns just to keep capital, otherwise it moves to competitors, makes you question whether this system has any real winners. In the end, it feels like there are only two options: no money at all, or money based on debt and controlled through debt. Bitcoin finally offers a way out of this. Thank you, Peter. It’s clear that you truly want to make things better and that you are actively working toward change.

Strong interview with very interesting points.The fact that financial service providers must always chase higher returns just to keep capital, otherwise it moves to competitors, makes you question whether this system has any real winners. In the end, it feels like there are only two options: no money at all, or money based on debt and controlled through debt. Bitcoin finally offers a way out of this. Thank you, Peter. It’s clear that you truly want to make things better and that you are actively working toward change.

Great episode, thanks! Core's main argument (repeated ad nauseum) is filters don't work 100% of the time. It doesn't need to be perfect, it needs to be as good as possible. Maximum friction for spammers and anyone else who wants to use Bitcoin for non-monetary uses. Of course miners will do anything for money, that's exactly why an op_return limit and other policies are needed, but certain core devs have twisted this around to justify removing one of the few tools available to pleb node operators (the absurdly high v30 default is effectively the same as removal). The point Luke makes at 1:36:40 is particularly good. Core supporters focus on one side of the equation, the spam that gets mined, and ignore what isn't. The thing about deterrents is we can't know how many attacks aren't even attempted at all because a deterrent exists. In the firewall example, at least intrusion attempts can be detected, but the attacks that never happen can't be measured and so are easy to ignore and dismiss. This is one of many flaws in Core's arguments. Thanks again guys!

A great podcast. If you want to understand the Core vs. Knots topic, this is a must-listen.

Excellent episode. Very informative and well spent two hours. Thank you.

It’s rare these days that I’m shocked, but this blew my socks off multiple times! Not sure what to make of it but let’s have some more please 🙏

Awesome episode!

I quit drinking years ago, over a decade, and the thing that helped the most was to think of my desire to drink as this little person inside me, and me beating the shit out of him every time he tried to talk me into cheating. I can say from this experience that everything you said about appetite in this episode was spot on and high signal. I appreciate it.

This was great, something I’ve been coming to terms with recently is I don’t think it’s (BTC adoption) going to happen as quickly as I expect it should or wish it would.

@npub1hk0tv47zt… is so unhinged, love it!

@npub1unmftuzmk… I was just gloating to my wife about ad-free subscription podcasts on @npub1v5ufyh4lk…. She was very envious. There is widespread appeal for this.

@npub1s5yq6wadw… is BTC Fundamentals going to embrace the @npub1v5ufyh4lk… ad-free subscription model? I love your show and really hate ads 😉

I fucking love ad-free subscription option. Sorry @npub1guh5grefa… but I don’t miss your Fold card as reads 😉

Not listened yet but fired up for some flagrant Luongo

@npub1unmftuzmk… there are still serious issues with @npub1v5ufyh4lk… I just lost this episode mid listen and history for the show going back to September. Only recovered this episode due to activity history.

Skemmtilegt viðtal við Halldór og hvernig hann upplifir það mögulega frelsi sem Bitcoin getur veitt honum sem höfund og útgefanda á sinni bók, þrátt fyrir að vera ekki beint djúpt sokkinn inní Bitcoin kanínu holuna. Hefði allveg áhuga á að skoða þetta Mikilvæga Rusl 😉 Óransj Kveðja 🧡

This was great, havent had a Bitcoin pod get me frothy in a while 🙏

This is wild, still nor sure what to make of it all, but awesome series, thanks Princey 🙏

Started episode 5 of this series and had to pause to go start from the beginning

Really enjoyed this, good guest especially considering it was his first rodeo, yeehaaw

Actually enjoyed this but it was hard work. Am a little unclear about how we fix the world though? Move to the wilderness with a Starlink satellite, build online social capital, and hope the PayPal Mafia take down some roadblocks? I don’t understand how PayPal Mafia reconciles with decentralisation? What am I missing here?

Ef maður var ekki nægilega bullish fyrir þeim möguleikum sem Nostr+Bitcoin búa yfir, þá ætti maður að vera það núna! Takk fyrir mig.

"distributed authoritarianiam" Wow, what a 🚩by Greg Maxwell, who is perfectly fine with centralized authoritarianism by Core. Such a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue, and what it means to run your own node, is a serious problem considering who it's coming from. Turns out "the experts" aren't the experts we thought they were. The way core proponents twist the meaning of censorship and authoritarianism is alarming. Another great discussion. Thanks guys!

The best example of core going woke was the blackist change in 2020. It's a particularly good example because the PR author explicitly did it for woke reasons: to use a "more appropriate" word and "make everyone happy". Contrary to Murch's claim that core tries to keep conversations technical (around 1:39:00), this PR had no technical justification at all. This was a good conversation, but if anything it made me even more anti-core. A lot of nitpicky weak arguments from Murch, and dismissive hand waving of valid concerns. We know there is more than one core dev, we have read the core arguments and we are still unconvinced. For all Murch's appeals for understanding the core position (I did make it to the end) he seems to have made very little effort to understand the position against this change. I read the "experts" letter, did he read the rebuttals? https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/19227

Great episode.

Great rip

@npub1wes30pmnspcxgxwdtz2zvehpg3cm0rjseemfekzmr5mmffkw583qm48688 this is worth a listen, I know you have the time 😉

Great episode!

I saw What’s the Problem a few months ago, it’s great, love the origin story 🙏

Another awesome episode. Thanks Guy!

Awesome discussion. Mechanic's summary at the start was more convincing than anything I've heard in favor of this retarded change. The beginning of the core woke infestation was the PR to remove the word "blacklist" from some test code because, somehow, this word is offensive. All the devs cried "it's no big deal" but I knew at the time it was a bad sign. Now core is a woke cesspool. I will not be running their software anymore.