On November 14th @pierre_rochard will present remotely on bitcoinacks.com, the productivity tool for reviewing Bitcoin Core PRs at London Bitcoin Devs. Sign up here: https://www.meetup.com/London-Bitcoin-Devs/events/255661949/
Two things I think underappreciated about Bitcoin scaling in the near future: (1) Schnorr signature aggregation is a huge deal because what's vastly more important than the size of a block is *how many signatures a full node needs to verify per second*, and aggregation reduces it dramatically, (2) sig aggregation is a non-trivial endeavour, to say the least - it's *much* harder than just implementing a Schnorr signature (which has benefits on its own, to be clear).
Merged PR from jimpo: BIP 158: Compact Block Filters for Light Clients https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/12254
I've created @bitcoinmerges!
this bot will send a toot every time something is merged into the bitcoin core github repository, similar to Pierre Rochard's bitcoinmerges on birdsite
@NodedPodcast by @pierre_rochard and @bitstein is my favourite. Can't wait for a new episode to drop in. It goes into depth and has some great speakers.
"In no way is the price [of #Bitcoin] remotely related the #block size limit." -- @pierre_rochard
https://twitter.com/pierre_rochard/status/977453694089416704
Gabor Gurbacs digital asset strategist/director at VanEck on Noded 20.0 said “once our ETF comes out”. Note he didnt say “if”. @NodedPodcast @pierre_rochard @bitstein
I just published “A Review of Budish’s 51% Attack Theories - What is the Fair Price of An Old ASIC?” https://medium.com/@hugonguyen/a-review-of-budishs-51-attack-theories-what-is-the-fair-price-of-an-old-asic-59a7dcf9ff94
Great list. Excited to be here at the start of something more anti-fragile.
@alonsovalencia @MrHodl @pierre_rochard @mattodell @jeremy @Gargron @nvk @duudl3 @samourai_official @Ragnarly
I’m Hoarding Bitcoins, and No You Can’t Have Any
https://nakamotoinstitute.org/mempool/im-hoarding-bitcoins-and-no-you-cant-have-any/
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Effects of hard money:
"Moreover, in an exchange economy, the saver-investor also contributes to a lowering of the time-preference rate of nonsavers. With the accumulation of capital goods, the relative scarcity of labor services increases, and wage rates, ceteris paribus, will rise. Higher wage rates imply a rising supply of present goods for previous nonsavers. Thus, even those individuals who were previously nons avers will see their personal time-preference rates fall."
- H.-H. Hoppe
I'm on Mastodon because the Bitcoin Network routes around obstacles as easily as water runs down hill. We are a force of nature that no amount of social engineering can change.
1. Mastodon supports 2FA, so you should go enable that in settings.
2. Use a vpn or tor if you don't want @nvk to know your ip address(es)
Instead of making a list, I made a beacon account so you can access its follower list via your usual frontend: https://hash.social/users/followsexperts
Great article by CFA Nik Bhatia explaining Bitcoin’s second layer and the potential it has for establishing time value and a reference rate for Bitcoin.
https://medium.com/@timevalueofbtc/the-bitcoin-second-layer-d503949d0a06
Just like on twitter, mastodon allows you to create bots with Python (and any programming language really).
If you are not familiar with python, checkout https://www.codecademy.com/learn/learn-python and https://learnpythonthehardway.org/
A wrapper to make life easier for bot writers: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py
I want to emphasize that I am very skeptical that #CryptoMastodon will take off. But i'm willing to try, because:
1. We need to learn how to continue the conversation under censorship
2. We need alternatives to Twitter and Reddit
3. Help platforms like @mastodon improve
4. Figure out how to transport identity and reputation
5. Find more alternatives
6. Enjoy some #shitposting
