Roman
#Catholic
*, husband, father of 10 children,
#Bitcoin
Core developer, and CTO
@OCEAN_mining
; INTP (*pedos who took over Vatican City are NOT Catholic)
I am a community-paid
#Bitcoin
developer working on Bitcoin Core & many other parts of Bitcoin.
You can help fund my public Bitcoin work by:
1) Sending me bitcoins - contact me for a Bitcoin address!
2) GitHub Sponsors:
3) Patreon:
PSA: “Inscriptions” are exploiting a vulnerability in
#Bitcoin
Core to spam the blockchain. Bitcoin Core has, since 2013, allowed users to set a limit on the size of extra data in transactions they relay or mine (`-datacarriersize`). By obfuscating their data as program code,
Test. If you see this, Twitter finally unbanned me ~10 minutes ago. Thank you everyone for your support. I appreciate it.
Unfortunately, Twitter did not admit wrongdoing, so I may have to self-censor here moving forward to avoid being wrongly banned again
#FreeLukeJr
#Suspended
Reminder: BCH doesn't solve anything. The only reason it has cheaper fees is because it's not being attacked as much as Bitcoin. Nobody likes high fees, but BCH is a step in the wrong direction to actually fixing the problems causing them.
PSA: To filter Runes spam using either
@BitcoinKnots
or
#Bitcoin
Core, the only approach right now is to set datacarriersize=0 in your bitcoin.conf file (or the equivalent GUI option in Knots only)
@nic__carter
No, Matt isn't longest tenured.
That would be me (unless Satoshi is still around under another name)
Also noteworthy, Matt hasn't contributed to Bitcoin Core in quite some time, and his most recent involvement was in the form of sabotage and harming Bitcoin
PSA: There are NOT "two versions" of
#Bitcoin
. This is a scam whereby people are misled into thinking that BCH ("Bitcoin Cash") is in some sense Bitcoin - it is not at all. There was no "split" of Bitcoin in 2017 at all. BCH was a completely new altcoin that launched in 2017 Aug.
The OP_RETURN discussion is not new and dates back to 2014 when Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 was released with the OP_RETURN policy included which was intended to discourage more egregious forms of spam. At that time, 40 bytes was the default max datacarriersize limit across all node
FWIW, even if no company out there has the budget to fully fund my
#Bitcoin
development work, it would still be helpful if they could put me (& family) on some kind of health or dental insurance; or even cover expenses for a conference here or there...
@BitPay
, if you want to add a 7.6% surcharge to people who pay with
#Bitcoin
, and make BCH payments surcharge-free, that's your right, but please don't lie about it being a "network cost".
The network cost/fee is paid 100% upfront by the user BEFORE you even see the transaction.
There's 133 pull requests open in the
#Bitcoin
Improvement Proposal repository, going back several months.😵
I've been backlogged with OCEAN, Bitcoin Knots, rebuilding after being compromised, and so on.😫
The other BIP editor has been busy too - and resigned a month ago.😬
@elonmusk
1) Bitcoin is actually good for the environment
1a) Bitcoin mining uses much less power than traditional banking
1b) Bitcoin mining creates pressure to use green energy
1c) Bitcoin mining enables 100% green energy where previously only a mix of green/dirty was previously possible
We don't need to *preserve* Bitcoin's decentralization. It's already lost. What we need is to *restore* that decentralisation we've lost, before it's too late and gone forever.
Certain Bitcoin Core devs have taken over the
#Bitcoin
@Transifex
project (a repo I've maintained since 2011). I gave them their access and now they've mutinied & removed my own access for the sole bigoted goal of obstructing
@BitcoinKnots
translation.
Reminder: Research performed during and after the "block size war" revealed that blocks larger than ~300k are NOT safe or sustainable.
Despite that, small blockers compromised/lost and Segwit increased the
#Bitcoin
block size limit to 2-4 MB, over 12 times the safe size.
Don't
#Taproot
has locked-in for
#Bitcoin
for both
#BIP8
and
@bitcoincoreorg
's alternate ST/BIP9 deployment.
That's the easy part. But more importantly now, is that users upgrade to enforce Taproot by November.
Currently, we have just 23% of nodes enforcing.
PSA: My server was accessed this morning by an unknown person. Full analysis in progress, but take extra care that you PGP-verified any downloads.
#Bitcoin
@rodarmor
How dare you call it a DDoS.
Pretty sure everyone involved is paying their internet bills.
(Disclaimer: I do not endorse DDoS, just pointing out the hypocrisy)
#Bitcoin
miner decides to try to create 1.265 BTC inflation. Aren't you glad miners don't get to make the rules?
Are you running a full node? If not, you can't detect this, and are vulnerable to such attacks!
Anyone log the full block?
2019-07-10T14:35:27Z ERROR: ConnectBlock(): coinbase pays too much (actual=1326546691 vs limit=1250000000)
2019-07-10T14:35:27Z ERROR: AcceptBlockHeader: block 0000000000000000000b47042b90c6a893e6e5cdef70c92beefb88f4c5fa5a69 is marked invalid
@zerohedge
Any company that laid people off for being unvaccinated should be boycotted by would-be employees (vax'd or not) until the management responsible has been fired.
To tell you what you must put in your body, means they consider employees to be slaves.
Bull Bitcoin and Wasabi Wallet have teamed up to award a no-strings attached $40k Bitcoin development grant to Luke-Jr (
@LukeDashjr
).
Thank you Luke for your work maintaining Bitcoin Knots and your tireless dedication to the decentralization of Bitcoin!
Apparently
@Google
has decided Bitcoin full node software is malware, and is blocking access to . There is no way to appeal to a human. Seems to me Google is the real malware now.
Worse still:
@Mozilla
blindly trusts Google's unfounded flagging.
Sigh.
Ugh, 87% of the
#Bitcoin
network is *still* vulnerable to CVE-2018-17144. Every day this goes on, we are trusting miner(s) and lose credibility with the decentralised network claim. 😐
A large Bitcoin ATM network added Bcash to its machines ... labelled as 'Bitcoin Cash'
100's of support tickets later, it was removed due to lost funds, complaints it wasn't Bitcoin, etc.
Bcash passing off as Bitcoin is losing normal people money
BTW, I forgot to mention 3 days ago... it was my 1000*-year anniversary of becoming a
#Bitcoin
developer. 😅🥳🎉
* 1000 binary; aka 8 in tonal and decimal
#Bitcoin
node patch (HACKY, UNTESTED) to filter out "ord" spam.
NOT a protocol change or softfork/hardfork, just a harmless (if it works right) spam filter.
(Also a quick hack and NOT suitable for opening a PR to Core - please write a proper fix for that)
@BitPaine
You don't legally owe anything on unjust taxes.
And the corrupt official demanding it from everyone is the one guilty of extorting everyone else - not you as someone who has avoided being victim to his crime.
If someone says they will shoot Bob if you don't give them $5, and you
@zackvoell
@nic__carter
He never admitted he was wrong in 2017 and last year tried to rewrite history to effectively remove the UASF, and was part of the whole "devs should ignore the community and put miners back in control" conspiracy.
PSA: if someone has a full >50% hashrate for your cryptocurrency, there is NO NUMBER of blocks where confirmation is safe. Once you get beyond 50%, you can reverse an unlimited number of blocks!
(What happened to BGold, CAN be done to BCH or maybe Bitcoin if Bitmain wants to...)
@lopp
Miners on OCEAN are making far more profit than those on other pools
Shareholders should start asking their mining enterprises why they're choosing less profitable pools that also harm Bitcoin
⚠️🔥Looks like
@hitbtc
have decided to go full scammer, and are stealing balances of users (including me).🔥⚠️
Probably a good idea to get anything you have there off, and take care not to use it.
(And as always, keep as little on exchanges as possible!)
PSA: The code for a proper BIP8 activation of
#Taproot
in
#Bitcoin
is already done and well-reviewed.
It's just waiting for the community to go ahead and make a release out of it.
I'm willing to do the work and advise, but not lead.
Someone else needs to step forward.
My theory on Antpool's abnormally-high rate of empty blocks:
These blocks are probably found using some old ASICs which only supported covert ASICBoost (ie, not overt which is common today).
Covert ASICBoost is incompatible with Segwit. This was a major reason Bitmain tried to
@brian_armstrong
Why are you false advertising this as having "all the benefits of cryptocurrency"? It has NONE of the benefits. Do you really not get it after all these years?
I want to make public my concern about "NFTs" which are being sold utilizing my name. Recently, a picture of code I wrote was sold at auction for .41 BTC. It was advertised as my code in the listing and presented to the public for sale and profit. 🧵1/9
Things Segwit solves: 1) Unintentional transaction ID malleability
Things Segwit does not solve: 1) World hunger, 2) Social/economic class gaps, 3) Dishonest people, 4) Centralisation, 5) High fees, 6) Poverty, 7) Cancer, 8) Transaction sizes, ......
It's not magic, just tech.
Looks like we now know why
#bitcoin
price crashed from $20k, and again from $11k to $9k. Continuing to get goxxed... kinda pissed.
I get a feeling we creditors would be better off if
#MtGox
just destroyed all its assets back then.
@dotkrueger
So he hasn't learned anything since 2016
Bitcoin only works at all if a super majority use their own nodes. If that's not holding true, we need to reduce block size until it is.
PSA:
@BitcoinCoreOrg
(
#Bitcoin
Core) is NOT soliciting or performing closed testing of any beta or other software.
If you get an email inviting you, be aware it is spam and their "testing version" is almost certainly malware.
Note: the "From" on emails is NOT secure and faked.
No matter what unreasonable demands your employer makes of you, don't quit.
Make them fire you. If it's unreasonable, sue.
By quitting, you lose recourse, unemployment, etc.
In 2017, miners attempted to assert control over the
#Bitcoin
protocol, and failed thanks to
#BIP148
/
#UASF
.
Later, exchanges attempted to assert control over the protocol, and failed again (
#NO2X
).
Bitcoiners should be careful not to let the failure of inflationary fiat result in
#Bitcoin
turning into nothing more than a new, non-inflationary* fiat.
This is a risk as people who don't necessarily care about decentralisation flock to Bitcoin for safety.
An old, but still relevant and true education meme about
#Bitcoin
. What it's describing is the difficulty of hash collisions.
All the mining hashrate in Bitcoin's entire history can only bruteforce a 90-bit hash. If there were two "Bitcoin"s, that'd be 91 bits (not 180 bits).
It is now 2019. We have answered "will people trust digital currency?".
The question remaining is "will people do what is needed for decentralised currency?" - in other words, will the masses run their own full nodes?
All
#Bitcoin
adoption now should include running a full node
Adjusting for inflation,
#Bitcoin
today is at ~$12k pre-pandemic dollars.
So we're not actually at a new high yet.
I guess we need to break $100k for a real new high.
(Originally posted on October 16th)
Even though you don't technically need to upgrade your
#Bitcoin
node for
#Taproot
until November, doing so sooner helps grow confidence in the activation.
@coryklippsten
@GrassFedBitcoin
@jimmysong
achow's probably not really the right one to take the blame for this
Satoshi introduced spam filters in 2010 to prevent the very thing "Inscriptions" is doing.
There was a regression in 2021 which "Inscriptions" then started exploiting late 2022.
(I threw together the
PSA: The only reason spam on
#Bitcoin
was smaller pre-taproot was because of policy spam filters on every node (Core won't even let you turn them off). Creating equivalent spam filters that work for
#taproot
transactions is a no-brainer.
cc
#Ordinals
Reminder: If your OS is closed source or has automatic upgrades, it has backdoors. Not the best system to entrust the security of your full node and/or wallet.
Why do we as a community avoid changing the proof-of-work algorithm, even long after the original criteria for a PoW change have been met? "The miners are too big to fail." ??? Many people involved in Bitcoin wanted to get away from bailouts like this! 🤔
I encourage BCH to seek out real alternative solutions to the largely unexplored field of consensus systems, but fraudulently pretending to be Bitcoin is not a legitimate avenue for promotion of their altcoin.
@reddit_lies
Yes, I used to run a subreddit for pedo victims. But I mentioned self-defense once, so reddit banned me and gave the subreddit to a trafficker.
If you're using a very old
#Bitcoin
Knots, it might expire today.
Don't upgrade it.
Instead, add to your bitcoin.conf file:
softwareexpiry=0
Or just wait to upgrade and use it until the dust settles.