In an effort to genocide the entire white Christian population of Ukraine, the government under Bolshevik/Zionist puppet President Zelenskyy, they are now press ganging women to send to the front lines.

Bitcoin threatened the state’s most foundational power: the money printer. The only sane starting point is therefore that state intelligence would spend huge resources trying to capture, dilute, and gimp it.

> Fuck normies Wow. You know we were all Normies at one stage. If that attitude was prevalent in Bitcoin, its adoption would have been close to zero. That is just appalling.

Unpopular opinion: (From the Knots Discord) XBT is a bad ticker. We should have discussed and voted on something else.

at my last meetup somebody asked: "isn't bitcoin better money if it had more use cases" and i didn't have a great answer but now I do: "would a formula 1 car be better if it could go off-road?" "would a surgeon be better at heart surgery if he also offered haircuts?" "would a fire extinguisher be better if it also made coffee?" you don't become the best in the world by being distracted

1/3 There are no bitcoin conferences anymore. Only shitcoin NFT-tether ones. I've stayed in the shadows for a long time. Now I want to seize this opportunity to kickstart something. Is there energy for a mid-sized bitcoin (which has blake2b hashing algo) meetup/conference?

This week I filled the Hilux deisel twice $300 Monthly living cost Fuel 2 cars = $880 Groceries = $1,000 Water = $139 Electricity = $0 (solar + batt) Mortgage = $3,380 Private health = $325 Internet + phones = $290 Insurances = $550 Car Rego = $145 Total $6,709 Annually = $80,508 That's average living paid with after tax dollars Have not included gym, kids sports, schooling, day care, gifts, home repairs, car services, streaming services, coffees, the odd friday night fish n chips which is about $80 these days. Unsure how other countries are tracking though this is fucked.

Signal is testing a major privacy feature: You can create a Signal account without a phone number. The new numberless registration uses an Account ID and Account Key, with an optional username. There’s a small catch: it requires a one time fee of around $3 to help prevent spam. The payment isn’t directly linked to your Signal account. Signal says it uses the same zero knowledge proofs as its donation system to ensure there’s no link between the payment and the account. For now, the only payment method is Google Play, which requires Google Play Services. Signal says it plans to add other payment methods in the future. A pretty significant step for privacy, even if the current implementation still has a Google dependency. Would you use Signal without a phone number? community.signalusers.org/t/… #Signal #Privacy #OpenSource #DeGoogle

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My son was born a few weeks ago. One day he'll ask me about women, and here's what I'll tell him. (1/5) Women want to be led, in every sense. Lead her physically, hold her hand, open the door, chart the path. And lead her in the bigger sense too. Women want a man who has chosen a direction and is committed to it. She doesn't need to know how you solve the problems day to day, she just needs to trust that you do. That's the man a woman feels safe walking beside. (2/5) This one will get me in trouble, but it's true. In the bedroom, women want to feel the power of the masculine, that animalistic asymmetry of strength when you're intimate. It only works in a trusted setting, and the line is simple, you never hurt her and you never coerce her. Inside that trust, most women crave to let go of control. (3/5) Women want to be trained. A woman wants to know her man has a backbone and boundaries. I spent years thinking the best thing I could give a woman was total freedom, but that's me projecting my own masculine frame onto her. She doesn't want that. She wants direction, a role, responsibility. And when your boundaries get disrespected, you don't punish, you withdraw your attention. (4/5) This one will upset people, but it's the most useful filter I know. Be careful with women who have a bad relationship with their father. That wound brings a lot of problems with it. Ask about her father and pay attention to the tone, the words, what your gut tells you. (5/5) Never argue with a woman. When she's in that state, she's not using words to reach a conclusion, she's using them to test you. Men test ideas, women test men. She wants to know you're solid under pressure. State your position firmly, and if she keeps coming, be the deeply rooted tree while the storm rages. That's what she actually wants to know. Underneath all five is one idea. You build the island of order in a sea of chaos and handle the problems as they arise. She trusts that structure, and inside it she gets to be in her free-flowing feminine by nurturing, loving, and feeding the soul of your family. The man builds the house, the woman makes it a home.

Attention AlphaPool: Mining is a job, just like any other. It is not a favor, and it is not charity. You are compensated for providing a service to the protocol and its users. The protocol and its users are the customers; nodes are the management. With that job comes an expectation of professionalism. Anything that damages the security, credibility, or even the optics of the network should be avoided. Perception matters—especially in finance. As longtime miners, you should understand why controlling >50% of the network hashrate is a serious problem, regardless of your intentions. At minimum, it is terrible optics and poor business practice. It undermines confidence in the very product you are being paid to secure. Perhaps you didn’t initially recognize the problem. But once you were warned, you knew. Continuing anyway means you placed your own priorities above those of your customers—the network and its users. Think of it this way: if BTC were a bank and you were a subcontracted security firm, your job would be to protect the bank. If your behavior began making customers question whether the bank was secure—and management explicitly told you it was damaging confidence—would you simply say, “Our intentions are good,” and continue? Of course not. Your contract wouldn’t be renewed. Mining is welcome. Mining is necessary. Mining is compensated. But with that privilege comes responsibility to the network you are being paid to secure.

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Typed XBT into Coinbase today, the ticker the BLAKE2b coin now carries on two exchanges. What came back: two Solana tokens named XBT, $124K and $310K market cap. The BLAKE2b coin is on no major exchange. A ticker is what people type. This one already belongs to a memecoin.

Coinbase is withholding ~$2.47 Billion from customers. On Sept 1st, Bitcoin’s blockchain split into two separate networks via a hard fork. Every Bitcoin that existed before the split continued to exist on the original network, while an identical balance appeared on the new Blake network. Two months before the split, Coinbase reported in an SEC filing that they held ~2.9 Million BTC in custody. Although many speculated that the new Blake coins would be worthless, recent exchange listings have proved otherwise. The most objective valuation we have for Bitcoin-Blake coins is currently $958 on the NeoxEx exchange. The NeoxEx exchange is low volume, so one would not be able to liquidate large amounts there, but the purpose of this analysis is to report an valuation, not an estimate of liquidity. Coinbase is not legally obligated to provide customers access to coins that have appeared on the Blake network. The headline "withholding" simply means that Coinbase has not credited its customers with the Blake coins. Valuation: At the time of the split, Coinbase's ~2.9M BTC in custody corresponded to ~2.9M Blake coins, which is worth roughly $2.78 billion at $958. Due to the churn of deposits/withdrawals, and also that some new transactions on the legacy chain are invalid on the Blake chain, a small percentage of the original total is likely no longer splittable. We can do a conservative on-chain analysis of a subset of Coinbase's self published holding addresses to estimate what percentage remains splittable. Coinbase publishes updated holding addresses for its cbBTC tokens. This is a small percent (~3-4%) of their total BTC holdings. But we're using this sample for two reasons. 1) These are the only publicly verifiable, self reported BTC addresses held by Coinbase. 2) These addresses almost surely have a higher churn rate in terms of deposits and withdraws, compared to Coinbase's long term holdings, as Coinbase advertises cbBTC as being easier to send and receive than regular BTC. Of the ~99,426 BTC held in cbBTC, approximately 89.3% is BTC that has not moved since the chain split which means it is guaranteed to be splittable. This is a conservative estimate because the 10.7% of coins that have moved are mostly standard txs, meaning they are also valid on the Blake chain and thus remain splittable. Taking the conservative 89.3% still-splittable portion of the 2.9M coins held before the split, and multiplying that by the $958 valuation Blake coins, yields a total valuation of $2.47 Billion that Coinbase is withholding from customers.

Instructions on how I split my spamcoin (PoW Sha 256) from my Bitcoin (PoW Blake2b) .. 1. Download and run a Sparrow Wallet connected to a public spamcoin server (SHA 256 Blockchain) .. 2. Download and run Bitcoin Knots latest release node (can be pruned if necessary as long as the residual prune includes the date of the first transaction of your cold wallet) .. 3. Download and run Shrike Wallet (fork of sparrow) and connect Shrike Wallet to the Bitcoin Knots node (Blake2b Blockchain) .. — you now have 2 wallets communicating to 2 separate “split” blockchains — 4. Import your cold wallet (that has the keys to both your SHA 256 coin and your Blake2b coin) to both Sparrow and Shrike .. you should see the same exact amount of coins on both wallets 5. Create a Sparrow Hot Wallet (write down seed phrase) and import that wallet to Shrike .. (at this point the Sparrow UI and Shrike UI has duplicates of both your cold wallet and your new hot wallet - both interfaces should look identical) 6. Purchase new SHA 256 coin post split (any amount - doesn’t matter) from exchange of your choice .. 7. Deposit the additional SHA 256 spamcoin (purchased post split) into the cold wallet on sparrow WITH your previous coins .. (you will see these additional sats only on your sparrow wallet - your Shrike wallet will maintain your previous balance) 8. While having both the Sparrow and Shrike wallets open, move the entire stack of the sparrow cold wallet (includes both old coins AND the newly purchased SHA 256 into the new separate sparrow hot wallet) .. — Because the sparrow cold wallet has new UTXOs generated with the SHA 256 PoW the WHOLE transaction will not be recognized on the Blake2b blockchain — You should see the Sparrow hot wallet with the new deposit .. the Shrike wallet coins should not have moved .. (if they have it’s not the end of the world because you have control over both wallets) 9. Once the coins are in the separate sparrow hot wallet, and you confirm they have not moved on the Shrike wallet, they should be free to further transfer to any cold wallet setup or an exchange for dumping .. 10. I would replicate the process on the Blake2b side, by purchasing (or mining) fresh new Blake2b coins, add them to your old stack and move as a whole to a separate new Shrike wallet and then further move to a new cold storage setup - this step is probably redundant, but can’t be too careful when moving large sums of money These steps allow complete control over transfers to wallets and addresses you control so if anything gets messed up then you haven’t lost any coins to an unknown address .. Please BE CAREFUL and use small amounts at first to test the process .. All the blessings to my Bitcoin brothers and sisters 🙏🏻

I just had to do this with my wife. She is not technical. I said: The Bitcoin software was upgraded. The old version allowed lots of spam and NFTs (she immediately said “those stupid monkey pictures?”) and all kinds of non-monetary use-cases are being released for it. (“I thought Bitcoin was supposed to be money?” - “Yes, I’m getting to that”) Well a large proportion of the Bitcoin community felt Bitcoin is supposed to be for Money Only and so they made changes to the code and upgraded it to be spam rejecting and fixed a few bugs that were around for a long time. “But there is still the original version running?” Yes, just like any software, adoption of the new upgrade takes time. Both versions are running at the moment and we have exactly the same amount of coins in both versions. She was happy with that and went back to making lunch.

Yes, basically any standard Bitcoin wallet address works on both versions of the chain. But to save yourself the confusion, I would create a new wallet for version 2 coins and don’t use the same wallet (seed phrase) for version 1 coins. For the purpose of DEPOSITS, or receiving coins, you can use just about any wallet. For example, for a quick, mobile solution, I just used Blue Wallet. You create a new wallet (Seed Phrase) and then create receive addresses as normal and deposit any BTC2 into that wallet. However, currently the only wallet I know that fully works (including SENDING coins) with Bitcoin² is Shrike, which is a fork of the old Sparrow wallet. You can search for it on GitHub. You can of course use Shrike to create you wallet, or you could import a seed phrase, like I will be from my Blue Wallet. For a Hardware Wallet solution, there is Seed Signer. There has been a fork of that as well, but I have not tried it out yet. I have used AI to check between the code and nothing untoward was found. Since Blue Wallet is open source, I expect a fork of that will be coming soon, so we will have a full mobile solution for Bitcoin² as well.

Blue Wallet is not made *specifically* for Bitcoin version 2. But the good thing about upgrades is that a lot of the previous tools you used are basically the same. Seed phrases is one such item. So, although Blue Wallet can’t be used to SEND version 2 coins out of a wallet, it most certainly creates the exact same Seed Phrases that Bitcoin² uses, along with receive addresses to get the Bitcoin² coins into that wallet. But that is where the compatibility ends, until some clever dev makes a fork of Blue Wallet to be fully compatible with the Bitcoin upgrade. (It’s just like any other OS upgrade… you sometimes have to wait a little while for software apps to catch up and be upgraded as well.) But there are other wallet solutions, as I spelled out in another reply in this thread. Sparrow wallet has been upgraded to Shrike, and Seed Signer has a version the works with Bitcoin². I can get links to both of those if you need, but doing a search on GitHub should be able to find what you need.

This is the first time I mostly hold BTC as an investment. For the NGU. Before, it was the biggest no-brainer far beyond that. It was the exit. The rock solid, unfuckable-with store of value. Separation of money from state. No third parties. Sovereignty. Digital truth in the form of a lean monetary ledger. Those qualities have, in my opinion, eroded a lot. Slow capture. More centralization. More relativizing and fiatizing of what Bitcoin is for. And there are seemingly no brakes. Just cheering when the people who still wanted Bitcoin to be money, not data storage, lost. Nodes decide, not miners. That used to be shared ground. Now it will get you ridiculed. I do not see the current trajectory, governance capture, or mining concentration reversing, not with the current attitude and behavior from the suits, the influencers and the social layer in general. That is why my faith in the project today is much weaker than it used to be. I am not calling the Blake2b chain Bitcoin. I am glad the fork happened. It is a live attempt to reassert principles a lot of us thought were settled: monetary protocol, hostile to spam, nodes enforcing rules, miners do not get to veto by selling block space for JPEGs and other non-monetary use. Whether it works at any meaningful scale is unknown. The energy around it is real. That resonates more with me than victory laps from people who treated BIP-110 as a joke and then celebrated when centralized hashpower blocked it. My position: I am not selling my BTC. I am not telling anyone else to sell. I intend to hold both sides for now. Nobody should be buying or selling either side of this split yet. The dust has not settled, liquidity is a joke, and rushed claim tools are how you lose funds. I urge everyone to make their own, well researched and responsible decisions. Most of my attention and interest now goes to the chain that still treats spam as spam, instead of inviting more of it and saying the debate is settled.

I get what you're saying. I really do. And on an individual level, we can all think whatever we want. I personally have lost all faith that Bitcoin v1 will achieve MY reason for Bitcoin, and that is separating money from state. But then there is a reality of what every exchange, wallet maker, corporate balance sheet, ETF, news channel, about 80% of the node runners, and all the captured miners are calling that chain. And they are calling it Bitcoin with a ticker of BTC. Railing against that is farcical, a waste of energy, and kind of makes you look like a nut job. Not to mention a bit of a hypocrite. We advocate for individuality and sovereignty, yet our MINORITY group will try and FORCE all the above to call their coin something different from what they have for 17 years? Wow, the arrogance is just palpable! Where the fuck is our humility? Where is the self-effacing and gentle but determined progress to suffer the slings and arrows of those that are cruel to us while we carry the burden of re-building a chain that will save humanity? You are correct... Bitcoin DOES indeed continue on a forked chain. It is Bitcoin's next iteration. Much improved. Spam rejecting. Upgraded headers. New mining algo. This IS the reality that even our detractors must admit is the truth. Even when Bitcoin Cash forked off, it was STILL acknowledged as a fork of Bitcoin. And so we should accept reality BUT ALSO control the narrative and simply call it Bitcoin version 2. They (our enemies) wont like that one little bit. Because they know that every computer user in history understands what an upgrade is.