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2025-09-23 18:19:55 UTC

„All I got from Bitcoin Core V30 is spam on the blockchain and a bunch of retarded shitcoin devs showing up at the conferences that dont run their own node!“
https://blossom.primal.net/54e9dd567e105210d6754d9a7bc8b25c9a23c040ee3c28c748d090f863d31715.mov

2025-09-22 10:20:41 UTC

Bitcoin Core is a monoculture
https://youtu.be/9sR-ub0eJrQ?si=3zTBsDnr7-V-P5Eo

2025-09-21 14:01:53 UTC

WTF
https://blossom.primal.net/58f8c3d75ee7ebec97414de805b37ade786681eaea20597c0d7bc7b27aa51c84.jpg

2025-09-21 13:19:28 UTC

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6 Mio jews killed without Hitler knowing about it…. Fuck off Nazi

2025-09-20 20:39:45 UTC

Bitcoin Core
We are Bitcoin now.
You will obey us.

2025-09-20 19:12:06 UTC

On this day in 2002, #Tor was launched. What began as a Naval Research Lab project has grown into a global symbol of online privacy. Today, 23 years later, it’s still protecting millions.
https://blossom.primal.net/7c74d76dbe3ca47099d413ff12ed7df883d876fed2be57646fd026b12f101c3f.jpg

2025-09-20 10:25:35 UTC

Why Bitcoin Core V30 is flawed:
Unlimited OP_RETURN is reckless
CSAM is a serious attack vector
Run @BitcoinKnots

2025-09-16 18:50:36 UTC

So why have multiple implementations?
•A monoculture results in the dominant software having too much control over the protocol direction
•A bug in the reference client can bring down the entire network
• Virtually all successful internet protocols have human-readable specs (RFCs) backed by multiple independently developed implementations
— Dave Collins, May 2013
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2025-09-15 18:09:27 UTC

The Bitcoin Cantillon Effect
If fiat money creates insiders close to the money printer… does Bitcoin have its own?
Are early adopters, miners, and devs the ones sitting closest to new issuance?
Do OGs act like a kind of mafia, protecting their influence over code, culture, and capital?
And if so … is Bitcoin really an escape from the Cantillon Effect, or just a new version with different gatekeepers?

2025-09-14 20:49:42 UTC

Running Bitcoin Knots

2025-09-14 20:48:22 UTC

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It must hurt so bad that bitcoin knots is winning

2025-09-08 05:28:49 UTC

Everyone: Bitcoin is money
Bitcoin Core:
https://blossom.primal.net/3c8915fa0dd58e7d94fed616a5aeed0a891fdd38c783a16e980a55276ae49fef.jpg

2025-09-07 15:19:40 UTC

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2025-09-07 12:06:41 UTC

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Core already opened the floodgates by allowing arbitrary datacarrier outputs. That wasn’t Bitcoin that was a concession that turned the timechain into a playground for spam. Don’t pretend this is about ‘social media mobs’ vs. experts. It’s about Core drifting from the protocol’s purpose. Bitcoin is money, not a data-storage experiment.

2025-09-07 11:43:42 UTC

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Calling Bitcoin a ‘meritocracy’ is just a polite way of saying a handful of insiders get to decide the rules. That’s not what Bitcoin was built for. It’s supposed to be decentralized, permissionless, and accountable to everyone who uses it. It is not a gated club where only the self-appointed elite have a voice. If Core keeps drifting toward technocratic capture, it betrays the very ethos that made Bitcoin matter in the first place.

2025-09-07 11:39:27 UTC

Bitcoin Core needs a time out.
The developers may be technically brilliant, but they have lost ground with the broader community and the many people who have entrusted their life savings to Bitcoin.
Bitcoin is money. Spam has no place on the timechain.
Bitcoin Core must change course

2025-09-07 11:36:54 UTC

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2025-09-07 11:36:14 UTC

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2025-09-07 10:54:32 UTC

2025-09-06 11:28:51 UTC

Npub.cash = custodial Lightning service
Cashu = custodial ecash via a mint (unless you run your own)
Both are cool experiments for privacy & UX —
but don’t confuse them with Bitcoin self-custody.
Not your keys, not your coins. 🧡

2025-09-06 09:04:21 UTC

JPEG spam is economic activity but it's extremely wasteful.
Store JPEGs in other places which are optimized for that like imgur, ipfs etc.
Bitcoin is money

2025-09-06 09:01:16 UTC

Say no to Spam on the Timechain

2025-09-06 08:53:43 UTC

Bitcoin is money

2025-09-02 17:57:27 UTC

The real risk isn’t just a 51% attack.
It’s insiders colluding with VC money to change Bitcoin’s code paying devs to include spam.
That’s cheaper than mining attacks.
Run @BitcoinKnots

2025-09-02 17:18:37 UTC

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Security is not binary. Filters are economic tools.
They raise friction & time-to-relay. If a minority of nodes/miners carry sub-1sat, you get leakage, not failure.
The goal is not to stop every tx everywhere, but to prevent the network as a whole from becoming a free relay for spam (ie, dick pics, child abuse)…
A filter that reduces bandwidth/mempool abuse by 80–90% is still doing its job.
Or is your pushback less about principle and more about VC profit-making?

2025-09-02 17:18:13 UTC

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2025-09-02 10:48:07 UTC

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2025-09-02 10:47:25 UTC

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We move to spamchain with bitcoin core v30

2025-09-02 10:45:51 UTC

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So what?

2025-09-02 10:44:48 UTC

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security is not binary. Filters are economic tools.
They raise friction & time-to-relay. If a minority of nodes/miners carry sub-1sat, you get leakage, not failure.
The goal is not to stop every tx everywhere, but to prevent the network as a whole from becoming a free relay for spam (ie, dick pics, child abuse)…
A filter that reduces bandwidth/mempool abuse by 80–90% is still doing its job.
Or is your pushback less about principle and more about VC profit-making?

2025-09-02 10:43:54 UTC

Security is not binary. Filters are economic tools.
They raise friction & time-to-relay. If a minority of nodes/miners carry sub-1sat, you get leakage, not failure.
The goal is not to stop every tx everywhere, but to prevent the network as a whole from becoming a free relay for spam (ie, dick pics, child abuse)…
A filter that reduces bandwidth/mempool abuse by 80–90% is still doing its job.
Is the pushback less about principle and more about VC profit-making?

2025-09-02 10:35:16 UTC

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Sad to see that you dont stand up against spam but are now part pf the VC ecosystem

2025-09-02 05:48:50 UTC

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Censorship?

2025-09-02 05:40:53 UTC

@BitcoinKnots vs Bitcoin Core
https://blossom.primal.net/e73485af106f1577a3f4696bf0bb944e8af82d246ed843353e05598ec01bf0d9.jpg

2025-09-01 10:26:03 UTC

With the upcoming Bitcoin Core version 30 (slated for release end of October 30, a significant shift is occurring:
Users are being drawn away from a purely financial-focused blockchain to one increasingly used for images, inscriptions, “runes,” and other non-monetary data.
Run @BitcoinKnots and show you disagree

2025-08-30 19:59:42 UTC

Running BitcoinKnots

2025-08-30 16:37:21 UTC

First Dos-attacks now death threat lies
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2025-08-27 20:06:58 UTC

First they ignore Knots.
Then they mock Knots.
Then they Dos-Attack Knots nodes.
Then… Knots dominates 51% of the network…. Soon
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2025-08-27 19:21:59 UTC

“Spam? That’s base layer-liquidity”
-Satoshi Nakaspamoto
Run @BitcoinKnots

2025-08-27 19:20:37 UTC

“One man’s spam is another man’s airdrop”
-Satoshi Nakaspamoto
Run @BitcoinKnots

2025-08-27 19:11:10 UTC

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2025-08-27 19:11:05 UTC

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2025-08-27 19:11:01 UTC

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2025-08-25 04:49:28 UTC

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Running Bitcoin Knots

2025-08-23 06:37:26 UTC

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@npub1wnl…n3wr

2025-08-23 06:24:46 UTC

Bitcoin Core - Read
https://blossom.primal.net/3fbd653df004c18b379674b81042546b476fff9c6a4da253af89799114188297.jpg

2025-08-22 14:49:43 UTC

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2025-08-22 05:29:25 UTC

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2025-08-22 05:29:20 UTC

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2025-08-20 20:08:48 UTC

Why Run @BitcoinKnots 🌸
Bitcoin Knots does not censor Bitcoin. It accepts every valid block according to the consensus rules that define the Bitcoin network. If a transaction is mined and included in a valid block, Bitcoin Knots will recognize it exactly the same way Bitcoin Core does.
The difference is that Bitcoin Knots applies stricter policies for the mempool and for transaction relay. These policies are not consensus rules. They are local rules that determine what your node chooses to store and forward before a transaction is mined. This is entirely optional behavior for node operators, and it does not affect what the blockchain itself considers valid.
The reason these policies exist is to reduce waste and to protect decentralization. Some transactions contain dust outputs that cost more in fees to spend than they are worth. Others contain oversized witness data that slow down block propagation. More recently, people have been embedding large images and other arbitrary files, such as JPEGs, into Bitcoin transactions. These transactions are valid under consensus, but they dramatically increase blockspace usage, drive up fees, and make it harder for ordinary users to run a node by consuming disk space, bandwidth, and memory.
Relaying everything without any filters makes it easier for attackers or opportunists to flood the network with junk. This increases the cost of running a node, and higher costs reduce decentralization by driving out smaller operators. When fewer people can afford to run full nodes, the network becomes more dependent on large, centralized entities.
Filtering spam at the mempool level solves this without changing consensus. Bitcoin Knots simply refuses to forward transactions that harm efficiency and decentralization. If miners want to include those transactions in a block because they pay a high fee, Knots will accept the block. Nothing is censored from the blockchain. But until then, Knots protects the network by declining to help propagate wasteful transactions.
The anti-filter position repeats the same mistake seen during the block size war. Then, the “obvious” solution was to make blocks larger, but that solution ignored the cost to decentralization and the risk of centralizing mining. Today, the “obvious” solution is to remove filters and let every transaction through. But that ignores the real cost of propagation, resource bloat, and node centralization.
Bitcoin Knots is a conservative, safe, and responsible choice. It strengthens Bitcoin by reducing spam, protecting decentralization, and ensuring that running a node remains affordable and efficient for the long term.
Switch to @BitcoinKnots

2025-08-19 21:09:59 UTC

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2025-08-19 21:09:53 UTC

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2025-08-19 21:09:49 UTC

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2025-08-19 12:40:14 UTC

Running Bitcoinknots
https://blossom.primal.net/b0514ca9ab7b64b7b6b0bf4ee19a1800034eb53924c365d2283ec62aa1d33683.jpg

2025-08-17 15:26:16 UTC

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2025-08-17 15:24:47 UTC

Running BitcoinKnots
https://blossom.primal.net/30292acfc91f91a9404aefec89923d172d2fd066d9fb3045c464a4c2b08c8b5c.mov

2025-08-15 20:09:12 UTC

We believe in privacy without compromise.
We believe in money without borders.
We believe in systems that serve people, not institutions.
We are cypherpunks. We write code. We run Bitcoin.

2025-08-15 20:08:54 UTC

We hide in plain sight.
We speak in algorithms.
We fight with math.
Bitcoin is our banner.
The network is our nation.

2025-08-15 20:08:36 UTC

Bitcoin is not a promise.
It is proof.
Proof that the network remembers.
Proof that the people can be their own bank.
Proof that freedom, once mined, cannot be confiscated.

2025-08-15 20:08:18 UTC

Every person has the right to hold and control their private keys.
Every person has the right to run a node and verify the truth.
Every person has the right to transact without surveillance or approval.
The network shall remain open, neutral, and resistant to corruption

2025-08-01 04:05:11 UTC

https://blossom.primal.net/a67ed47e3a3cd8e1117cdf50b572bc65daa850f3f1425f16f388b7df241d518c.mov

2025-07-23 19:44:37 UTC

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I listened to the lodcast… to the very end. Fanboy of @hodl

2025-07-21 19:55:07 UTC

Whaaaatsuuuup

2025-07-01 19:38:49 UTC

#Fingerprinting Bitcoin Nodes Through Addr Message Patterns
Bitcoin nodes unintentionally leak identity across networks through the way they construct and forward addr messages. Each node maintains a table of known peers and periodically shares these with others. But the selection, ordering, and especially the timestamps embedded in these messages are not uniform. They reflect subtle patterns that are consistent over time.
Because timestamps are not randomized and because node address tables (AddrMan) have deterministic behaviors, an observer receiving addr messages from a node over Tor and later over clearnet can correlate the two. This effectively links the two sessions as coming from the same node, even if IP addresses or networks change. The node reveals itself without knowing it.
This is not a protocol bug but an emergent privacy weakness in the design of the address relay mechanism. It allows passive observers to fingerprint a node based purely on how it gossips addresses, without needing access to its mempool, block data, or outbound connections. It affects all Bitcoin Core nodes and any implementation using similar address handling logic.
Mitigations under discussion include stripping timestamps from shared addresses, introducing randomization in the address selection process, or even limiting the amount of shared peer data. But until those changes are widely adopted, the network remains vulnerable to low-effort, high-precision tracking.

2025-06-30 20:01:49 UTC

🍔 Bitcoin & the Big Mac: A Juicy Thought Experiment
In 2025, a Big Mac costs about $5.15. With Bitcoin around $108,000, one coin buys you roughly 21,000 Big Macs. Fast-forward to 2035. Let’s say fiat loses half its value and a Big Mac now costs $10. Meanwhile, Bitcoin climbs to $500,000. That same coin now buys you 50,000 burgers.
The world didn’t get more productive. You’re not eating more because the economy grew. You’re eating more because your money stopped leaking.
Bitcoin doesn’t need GDP growth to gain purchasing power. It just needs fiat to keep doing what it does best … melting. When that happens, Bitcoin doesn’t grow. It re-prices everything else.
Still measuring value in dollars? Try burgers. They’re harder to fake.

2025-06-28 14:10:27 UTC

Anyone already also quantum bitcoin mining?

2025-06-21 21:10:14 UTC

Zapping still around ?

2025-06-21 19:12:22 UTC

Trust was never optional in fiat.
You trust the central bank not to debase.
You trust the government not to seize.
You trust the system not to collapse.
How’s that going?

2025-06-21 19:07:28 UTC

They said ‘don’t fight the Fed.’ So we left. With Bitcoin.

2025-06-19 19:06:50 UTC

Ready to go back in time to pick up 10k Bitcoin from Laszlo Hanyecz
https://blossom.primal.net/671b72463eb8e72a65d53a5936b54580a4a59949eaaf83b7f4c68c806629df1f.jpg

2025-06-19 11:37:09 UTC

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Hodling like an OG

2025-06-19 11:23:55 UTC

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Jeff was once a contractor at a decommissioned Cold War facility. All he wanted was a better vending machine and working Wi-Fi. But after a mysterious typo in a procurement system and one misdelivered shipping container marked “Classified,” Jeff became the unofficial 10th nuclear nation.

2025-06-19 11:21:26 UTC

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“Zapvergoldungsfrust”
The bittersweet frustration of trying to zap a worthy post only to discover it’s a Fediverse cross-post, leaving you unable to reward its author with digital gold because they dwell in the land of unpaid protocol purism.

2025-06-14 11:58:50 UTC

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Hammer Podcast! 🤟

2025-06-09 21:30:18 UTC

„Custodial“ got me blocked
https://blossom.primal.net/1974de655d8e35d4c00180f183714d7a3e6c3004d9c783ee8faa49d14bc78043.jpg

2025-06-09 18:13:15 UTC

Clarification on the recent Bitcoin Core change:
The OP_RETURN size limit was not removed.
What changed: transactions can now include multiple OP_RETURN outputs, each still limited to 80 bytes.
Example:
Previously → 1 OP_RETURN (80 bytes max)
Now → 3 OP_RETURN outputs (80 bytes each, same total size rules)
This is not a removal of limits just more flexibility within them.

2025-06-06 11:50:46 UTC

Who knew
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2025-06-05 19:35:18 UTC

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2025-06-04 08:00:07 UTC

When Bitcoin Knots goes to 15%
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2025-05-28 13:13:49 UTC

#Bitkey
Not an innovation because it repackages the same server-assisted multisig model already used by wallets like Green.
Bitkey uses a 2-of-3 multisig with one key on the mobile app, one on the hardware device, and one held by Block. While users can recover funds without the server if they retain both devices, any loss requires vendor involvement.
The open-source client and reproducible builds do not remove the trust dependency on backend services.
Unlike Bitkey, Green offers a 2-of-3 setup with an offline backup that allows recovery without contacting the vendor.
Bitkey shifts complexity into a user-friendly flow but offers no meaningful

2025-05-28 13:03:36 UTC

Bitcoin will be fixed
Soon seedless yield on spam

2025-05-28 00:01:51 UTC

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You had to much seedless it seems

2025-05-28 00:00:40 UTC

Seedless
WTF

2025-05-27 19:04:05 UTC

Proof of Reserve maximalist but demanding privacy
🤣 LMFAO

2025-05-26 03:11:56 UTC

Bitcoin is the quietly typed, mathematically enforced way of saying f*** you without raising your voice 🌹
https://blossom.primal.net/107c31020628cfdfe44130b5b2c374700753b80601b83ce72e51128a2b6cf274.jpg

2025-05-26 02:53:53 UTC

People trusted banks to hold their money and governments to protect its value. Both failed.
In 2007, Northern Rock collapsed. Withdrawals were frozen. In 2013, Cyprus seized deposits. In 2022, Canada froze accounts. In the UK and US, central banks printed trillions. Inflation followed.
The rules changed. The value dropped. Access was denied.
Bitcoin does not change the rules. It does not inflate. It does not freeze.
It runs on code. Ownership is defined by keys, not permission.
That was the problem. This is the solution.

2025-05-26 02:45:37 UTC

10,000 BTC for two pizzas might seem expensive now, but without that transaction, we might still be asking if Bitcoin could ever buy anything.
https://blossom.primal.net/f40f6efbeaec9d27b18402fcee171b8a0ee062b1427b7c18268ad292437248c1.jpg

2025-05-26 02:28:19 UTC

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2025-05-22 16:47:47 UTC

@npub1sg6…f63m congrats!
If Cash App truly supports Bitcoin’s ethos, why does it default to custodial wallets instead of empowering users with self-custody by default? Why are withdrawal limits and Lightning caps still in place when Bitcoin was designed to be permissionless? If Bitkey is a step toward sovereignty, why isn’t it promoted more aggressively within Cash App? What concrete steps are being taken to educate users about the importance of private keys and running their own nodes? After the recent regulatory settlement, how can users trust that their Bitcoin won’t be frozen or surveilled under pressure? Why is interoperability with the broader Lightning and Bitcoin ecosystem still limited, and what are you doing to change that? If Bitcoin is about freedom, should a platform like Cash App act more like a gateway to that freedom rather than a gatekeeper?

2025-05-19 02:35:18 UTC

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Steak ‘n Shake > Block
Bitcoin integration is not hard

2025-05-19 02:34:31 UTC

Steak ‘n Shake > Block
Bitcoin intergration is not complicated

2025-05-18 19:39:13 UTC

Stop the shitcoiners on bitcoin
Run Bitcoin Knots

2025-05-18 13:20:30 UTC

GM
Running Knots

2025-05-15 06:36:33 UTC

Congrats on proving that Bitcoin’s worst enemies don’t work at central banks but they’re just clowns with OP_RETURN access. 1 meg of zero-value junk, broadcast at global expense, so your JPEG club can feel clever. You’re not testing limits. You’re testing our patience.
https://blossom.primal.net/d04487ff29bb6ce06dc47487a26f01da65775f4d2c0111adbfa359ffc067e164.jpg

2025-05-15 05:42:04 UTC

@MARAHoldings led by @fgthiel enforced in the past government censorship only OFAC compliant blocks
Now they are supporting to mine spam via slipstream
This has to stop

2025-05-15 04:52:27 UTC

Congrats on proving that Bitcoin’s worst enemies don’t work at central banks but they’re just clowns with OP_RETURN access. 1 meg of zero-value junk, broadcast at global expense, so your JPEG club can feel clever. You’re not testing limits. You’re testing our patience.
https://blossom.primal.net/fdef3b066e4e34f2e198007bb3b78d0775e201ec2f05e2100b128f80a1211b22.jpg