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Can already tell I'm going to be way, WAY more bullish here than I am on normie Twitter

Proof-of-work:

You're getting catfished on dating apps by coin thieves, I'm being preyed on by randos who I honestly thought were complimenting me on my epic 126 point word score for ZINGERS. We are not the same :(

Current market FOMO status: can't even play a game of Words With Friends in peace

in b4 "ETFs mean Bitcoin has been co-opted by the mAiNsTrEaM" narratives begin

Hey mutuals! I'll be in Austin all of next week M-F. My schedule is pretty packed already but DM me if you'd like to meet up and grab some BBQ, or just look for me at BitDevs on Thursday.

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> 0% Chinese hashrate after miners banned permanently
> Steadily increasing Iranian hashrate after temporary summer ban

According to the latest from CBECI, Iran's share of BTC hashrate has steadily increased over summer of 2021.

There was a blanket ban on 'crypto mining' (read: GPU farms for alts as well as BTC) announced May 26th, lasting through September 22nd, sooo...
https://www.jbs.cam.ac.uk/insight/2021/geographic-shift/

Here's a typical definition of p1-p4 outages from an SLA for an ISP for comparison; I think "no new blocks for extended period" would arguably be p3.

(At the risk of biasing the results: my vote is for "degradation of service", as long as a user can check existing balances and get sane results from `bitcoin-cli gettxoutsetinfo`. )

A hypothetical, prompted by Facebook's issues last week:

If the Bitcoin network were to "stall" for some unknown reason - as in, stop producing new blocks for an extended period of time - that would best be described as a:

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"In legally tricky areas it can be cheaper to issue a blanket ban ... to minimise the burden of determining whether every transaction is compliant" https://www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2021/10/10/credit-card-firms-are-becoming-reluctant-regulators-of-the-web

The last holder of fiat currency has already been born.

debt ceiling 🤝 difficulty bomb

let's just punt it for now