The Fight For Bitcoin’s Future | Samson Mow

For new people, I would definitely recommend Umbrel, over Start9

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Core/Knots is about Core removing User options. IMO, Free and open-source software is about empowering Users. Knots enables more options to the User. The current B-Core team needs to reflect on the broader intentions of the Users, and of the bitcoin network itself.

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

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.

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Saylor was right!!!! 😱 Thank you sir 🫡

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I thought that sounded like AI. Not bad though!

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🎯 help you bring ideas into reality That's one thing I've struggled with, I've got lots of good ideas but I need assistance and assistants 🤭 to help me move forward to completion

What I would like to see more Nostr apps doing is hiding the fact that they are Nostr apps. Just obscure it away so normal people think it's a normal app, and not a power app. And let the features and usability make them a fan without them realizing it

Custom scripts for everybody! 🥳🥳

Ya there's definitely nothing wrong with waiting. 6 to 12 months from now it will be much more capable, and in order of magnitude easier to set up

I've been setting up mine to automatically log conversations. I've been feeding it all of my notes and business ideas. Everything gets automatically cataloged into obsidian. That obsidian vault is included in the QMD database for vector memory search. My agents have excellent short and long-term memory with minimal token usage. To set it up right, you really need to spend quite a while setting it up - or buy the files from somewhere. I've been setting up going on 3 weeks. It has already made me more productive. Soon my calendar will be synchronized. Client leads with automatically be filtered and surfaced front and center to me. The more you use something like this, the more you will start to understand how you can compound little abilities on top of each other. One cron job can trigger a cascade of events and work. I have used simplistic bots for many years. I used to have one that would pay my child support for me. That ran with no issues for about 5 years before they updated the site and broke my bot. I used to use another one for automatically populating descriptions and titles for an online store. At that time, I was replacing an employee with a simple bot. These things have been providing real value for people, for longer than people assume. Again it all comes down to how you use it and what you're doing with it. 6 to 12 months from now the landscape will be much different. Right now it's very hard to set up correctly and easy to burn money if you don't know what you're doing. But soon a lot of these things will be ironed out and much more normal people will be able to get higher value from it. On top of that, every time the models get better or cheaper, that means you can also upgrade your system to be smarter or cheaper.

I don't know who's spending $1,000 but you doing it wrong. I spent $15 in the past 3 weeks with more usage than I've ever had. It all depends on the model. But If they are also using it to do scraping and analyzing, it's not exactly simple work. And if you compare that to a human being doing the same work - that $1,000 is probably much cheaper than a human spending the time manually scraping and analyzing. I think I saw a graph recently saying that Claude opus outputs - in one prompt - between 5 and 15 hours of human work. Obviously that's not on every prompt, but that's pretty substantial even if it's expensive at a 30 cent API call, then maybe it's an extremely good deal. It's all very relative to what you're using it for and what your accomplishing in the end. Some of us have been playing with AI models for years already so we already know how to prompt better and we get better results. You've got to keep playing with different models - talk to them in different ways - and be explicit, try to remove ambiguity. And if you're having problems writing prompts - ask one AI to write a prompt for you to give to the other.. and that will often increase your chance of a one shot successful prompt

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Real rich listening to NVK complain about using the state when he's the fagot who attacks people in the community with bullshit trademark infringements. That's why I bought a BTClock yesterday. Everybody should buy a BTClock. Fuck NVK in his slobbery stuttering mouth

Pro trip, when using NFC to broadcast your transactions, open up Tor browser first, then broadcast and it will use Tor browser to broadcast your transaction over Tor

Awesome show keep it up sir

Great track!

Banger 🧨🧨 Pure signal

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Favorite show in the space.

Need part 2, great conversation 🧨

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Congrats! 🎉🔥🧡

Cool to hear you're expanding on Wavlake and Nostr 🔥

Thanks for the interview. I largely agree with Jimmy on almost all points, which is precisely why his final conclusion is hard to reconcile. He clearly understands the reasons for pursuing a fork and even acknowledges the upside of what is often framed as the strongest criticism of the BIP: that it makes future changes to Bitcoin harder. A stricter consensus reduces the risk of frequent or careless modifications and helps protect Bitcoin’s long-term stability. The only serious counterargument he raises is the risk of a network split. But Bitcoin is a long-term project, not a political compromise. If we believe something strengthens Bitcoin over the long run, short-term risks should not automatically prevent action. Doing nothing is also a choice. Clear signaling matters: the more people openly signal their position instead of waiting on the sidelines, the clearer the real consensus becomes and the stronger Bitcoin will be in the future.

Very good perspectives. Especially about finding out about minority fork, makes me still a bit uneasy thinking about that 😄 Seems Walker also came around from unconditionally following Core opinion. Biggest take: there is often nuance and seldomly just black and white.

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Changing to the new show name with a bang! Much better name than Mr Obnoxious. Congrats

Love this series, keep up the great work!🚀🧨

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The North Sea nexus. Fuck the Brits, butt hurt bastards

Great show you little cunts. 2025 lfg.

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*block gets mined* Everyone confused what the sound was 🤔😂

100% agreed you need both Medium of Exchange and Store of Value. The Bitcoin that are held by ETF custodian lose the MoE function. We gotta educate people as so many are considering moving their coins to ETF because “self custody is hard”. That would destroy Bitcoin’s value. SoV cannot existing alone.

I will make a correction - bitchat was mentioned. I overheard somebody asking somebody else if they want to try it. It sounded like a group of two or three people were going to try it at Lake Satoshi

Rev.Hodl da man, we need more people like him 🧨🧨🧨

Karl is the real Rev 😏

Spam und NFTs gehören aus meiner Sicht nicht auf Bitcoin und waren ursprünglich auch nie dafür gedacht. Meiner Meinung nach wurde der Konsensus bewusst offen gehalten, während die Policy-Regeln der Nodes flexibler sein sollten, damit man auf neue Formen von Missbrauch reagieren kann, ohne ständig eine Konsensus Änderung zu brauchen. Die Policy-Regeln definieren, welche Transaktionen Nodes standardmässig weiterleiten, oder in den Mempool aufnehmen. Genau diese Regeln sollten eigentlich als Schutzmechanismus gegen Spam dienen und bei Bedarf angepasst werden können. Früher hat dieses Modell deutlich besser funktioniert, weil Mining und die Erstellung von Block-Templates wesentlich dezentraler waren. Da niemand wusste, welche Node / Miner den nächsten Block finden würde, mussten Transaktionen über das gesamte Netzwerk propagiert werden. Dadurch hatten die Policy-Regeln der Nodes realen Einfluss darauf, welche Transaktionen sich überhaupt effizient im Netzwerk verbreiten konnten. Heute ist die Situation anders: Die Erstellung von Block-Templates ist stark zentralisiert, wodurch sich die Policy-Regeln vieler Nodes teilweise einfach umgehen lassen. Dazu kommt, dass Bitcoin Core Policy-Regeln zusätzlich gelockert hat, was das Problem weiter verstärkt hat. Das Resultat sehen wir jetzt: Ein erheblicher Teil des Blockspaces wird inzwischen für nicht-monetäre Daten genutzt (fast 40% in den letzten 6Monaten). Wenn nichts dagegen unternommen wird, riskieren wir dauerhaft volle Blöcke, höhere Anforderungen an Nodes und steigende Kosten für das betreiben einer Node.

Danke keine Bitbox Werbung

Andere Kritikpunkte stimme ich zu.

Super Argument Dennis. Tom blendet Kernproblematik aufgrund von Indizien-DoS ab und kommt zu falschen Rückschlüssen. Ganz ohne technisches Verständnis kann man halt leider keine Rückschlüsse auf Validität der Indizien und Schutz vor Zentralisierung ziehen, sorry Tom.

Genau andersrum, Ver und Co waren die großen Player (Exchanges, Miner, ..) die ihre Geschäftsmodelle schützen wollten und via Blockgröße einfachste Lösung durchdrücken wollten (Zentralisierung). Mining Pools würden mit Bigblocks noch mehr zentralisiert sein weil schwerer Nodes zu betreiben. Pools ist ein Problem, Lösung Stratum v2, Ocean/Datum um Blocktemplates zu dezentralisieren. Ver/Bigblocks hätte nichts daran geändert bzw. verschlimmert. Blocksizewar als neutralere Quelle lesen.

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I heard Steve mention John on Security Now too. I had to lol

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Ok I didn't realize the front end of OwnTracks will work in conjunction. That is pretty cool 🧨

Dawarich is brand new and for iOS only? Solid pass. Use OwnTracks for self-hosted location tracking.

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You self-censor yourself on the word ass? That's extremely gay

Leave your routers alone. People need those proxies. 😉

EU can suck a dick and they will HFSP