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11,713 views • 2 months ago

Bitcoin Mechanic on who actually controls Bitcoin: "Miners are employees of the network. That's the end of it. The nodes are the boss. People are very worried about what miners think, and not at all worried about what nodes think. But nodes are more important. They're higher up in the hierarchy. When miners get out of line, it's nodes that give them a slap. This was the fork wars. We let miners have a say in whether we got SegWit, and they said no. So we fought a war over it, we won, and we slapped the miners and put them back in their place. If miners are in control, if devs are in control, it just turns into a shitcoin. The people in charge have to be the users running their own nodes." Softfork Mechanic #BIP-110 on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #198.
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Bitcoin Mechanic on who actually controls Bitcoin: "Miners are employees of the network. That's the end of it. The nodes are the boss. People are very worried about what miners think, and not at all worried about what nodes think. But nodes are more important. They're higher up in the hierarchy. When miners get out of line, it's nodes that give them a slap. This was the fork wars. We let miners have a say in whether we got SegWit, and they said no. So we fought a war over it, we won, and we slapped the miners and put them back in their place. If miners are in control, if devs are in control, it just turns into a shitcoin. The people in charge have to be the users running their own nodes." Softfork Mechanic #BIP-110 on The The Bitcoin Matrix Podcast ⚡️ #198.

Cedric Youngelman ⚡️

11,210 views • 1 month ago

An interesting thought I had on my morning walk. Filters on their own are not effective to censor all spam from motivated attackers, that's true. But filters do make spam more prone to censorship at the mining pool level. Miners can get away with mining transactions that are used for illegal purposes because they have plausible deniability: they don't know what they are used for, they are "just including what's relayed" by the p2p network. But with many forms of spam, such as OP_RETURN, it is not so. They do not have plausible deniability. MARA is perfectly happy inscribing NFTs and non-standard troll OP_RETURNS via its slipstream service. Since they are legally low risk, it makes sense for them to profit from it. However, if I was to submit something really nasty like torrent links to child pornography (or child porn jpegs) or Mein Kampf (illegal in many countries) MARA could not plausibly deny that it is publishing and distributing illegal content. It’s right there in the OP_RETURN for everyone to see. Consequently they would probably not allow it. If they did, they would get in trouble. And it would be much easier for the content submitters to get caught. If nonstandard node relay software (i.e. libre relay) started being abused by pedophiles, its likely mining pools would just ban these types of higher-risk peers. Of course the pedophiles can always run their own mining pools and get a few transactions every month: bitcoin would remain censorship resistant if you are patient enough. But now, with relaxation of standardness rules and “filters” anybody can easily publish blatantly illegal content as OP_RETURNS and get it relayed to a mining pool in a more censorship-resistant way, cheaper and more effective. Good? Bad? It's possible mining pools are going to have no choice but to develop software that analyzes transaction OP_RETURN to assess what they will publish or not. They may develop content moderation policies, because the illegality of the OP_RETURN content will be blatant and they will have no plausible deniability. I'm honestly pleasantly surprised that miners haven't already done this for obviously "higher risk" transactions like coinjoin. However coinjoin transactions are not illegal per se, and there is very wide international support for financial privacy. Not so for child porn. Once miners start developing software to moderate what transactions go in the blockchain, a Pandora's box is opened: if you can easily filter transactions that have illegal data in the OP_RETURN, why are you allowing whirlpool tx0? Why are you allowing coinjoins? Why are you allowing sanctioned addresses? Ironically, the attempt at making spam transactions less prone to censorship might make economic transactions more prone to censorship. Bitcoin is censorship resistant from a network perspective because anybody can mine anonymously. This censorship resistance is compounded when large centralized mining pools and mining farms have plausible deniability that the transactions they mine aren't blatantly illegal because they are anonymous (“there is no way to know”). The more mining is centralized, the more this component of censorship resistance matters. Non-monetary content puts that aspect at risk. I'm not sure I’m right, but I don't think this idea has been widely discussed. The only thing that can prevent certain txs formats (i.e. the low hanging fruit spam vectors like OP_RETURN) from making it into the chain is consensus rules. Yes I'm aware spammers will always find a way to get spam in eventually. It would be sad to see fork-level consensus to ban OP_RETURN entirely, because there are reasonable harm-reducing use cases for it (e.g. open timestamps). We are nowhere near consensus on restriction spam vectors at a consensus level, not even close. But who knows after 10 years of child porn being distributed via the Bitcoin network nodes and miners both will have had enough. It would be interesting to watch this play out.
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An interesting thought I had on my morning walk. Filters on their own are not effective to censor all spam from motivated attackers, that's true. But filters do make spam more prone to censorship at the mining pool level. Miners can get away with mining transactions that are used for illegal purposes because they have plausible deniability: they don't know what they are used for, they are "just including what's relayed" by the p2p network. But with many forms of spam, such as OP_RETURN, it is not so. They do not have plausible deniability. MARA is perfectly happy inscribing NFTs and non-standard troll OP_RETURNS via its slipstream service. Since they are legally low risk, it makes sense for them to profit from it. However, if I was to submit something really nasty like torrent links to child pornography (or child porn jpegs) or Mein Kampf (illegal in many countries) MARA could not plausibly deny that it is publishing and distributing illegal content. It’s right there in the OP_RETURN for everyone to see. Consequently they would probably not allow it. If they did, they would get in trouble. And it would be much easier for the content submitters to get caught. If nonstandard node relay software (i.e. libre relay) started being abused by pedophiles, its likely mining pools would just ban these types of higher-risk peers. Of course the pedophiles can always run their own mining pools and get a few transactions every month: bitcoin would remain censorship resistant if you are patient enough. But now, with relaxation of standardness rules and “filters” anybody can easily publish blatantly illegal content as OP_RETURNS and get it relayed to a mining pool in a more censorship-resistant way, cheaper and more effective. Good? Bad? It's possible mining pools are going to have no choice but to develop software that analyzes transaction OP_RETURN to assess what they will publish or not. They may develop content moderation policies, because the illegality of the OP_RETURN content will be blatant and they will have no plausible deniability. I'm honestly pleasantly surprised that miners haven't already done this for obviously "higher risk" transactions like coinjoin. However coinjoin transactions are not illegal per se, and there is very wide international support for financial privacy. Not so for child porn. Once miners start developing software to moderate what transactions go in the blockchain, a Pandora's box is opened: if you can easily filter transactions that have illegal data in the OP_RETURN, why are you allowing whirlpool tx0? Why are you allowing coinjoins? Why are you allowing sanctioned addresses? Ironically, the attempt at making spam transactions less prone to censorship might make economic transactions more prone to censorship. Bitcoin is censorship resistant from a network perspective because anybody can mine anonymously. This censorship resistance is compounded when large centralized mining pools and mining farms have plausible deniability that the transactions they mine aren't blatantly illegal because they are anonymous (“there is no way to know”). The more mining is centralized, the more this component of censorship resistance matters. Non-monetary content puts that aspect at risk. I'm not sure I’m right, but I don't think this idea has been widely discussed. The only thing that can prevent certain txs formats (i.e. the low hanging fruit spam vectors like OP_RETURN) from making it into the chain is consensus rules. Yes I'm aware spammers will always find a way to get spam in eventually. It would be sad to see fork-level consensus to ban OP_RETURN entirely, because there are reasonable harm-reducing use cases for it (e.g. open timestamps). We are nowhere near consensus on restriction spam vectors at a consensus level, not even close. But who knows after 10 years of child porn being distributed via the Bitcoin network nodes and miners both will have had enough. It would be interesting to watch this play out.

FRANCIS - BULLBITCOIN.COM

18,041 views • 11 months ago

Mo Gawdat believes up to 30% of jobs in certain sectors could disappear by 2028. That stopped me in my tracks. Mo was one of the first people to come on this podcast and warn me about AI, long before most of the world was talking about it. At the time, it felt early. Now, it feels like the world is catching up to what he was seeing. I’m still trying to understand what AI actually means for our lives. Not just whether it can write emails, create images or make us more productive. I mean what it does to jobs. What it does to power. What it does to education. What it does to human connection… That’s why I wanted to have this discussion with Mo again. What makes Mo worth listening to is that he saw these systems inside Google years before most of us had even heard the term AI. His book *Scary Smart* now feels like it was written for this exact moment. Let me explain why this discussion matters. Mo believes we’re not just entering an AI revolution. We’re entering a period where AI, robotics, economics, surveillance, digital currencies and global instability are all colliding at the same time. That’s a lot for any of us to process. We spoke about: - The jobs Mo believes are most at risk from AI. - Why he believes that AI is actually underhyped! - The mistake almost everyone is making with ChatGPT. - The prediction that changed even his own view of the future. The part that stayed with me was this idea that human connection may become the real currency. Because if AI can produce the information, write the report, analyse the data, then what is left? I don’t think this conversation gives neat answers. That’s probably why it’s worth watching. It helped me think more honestly about what’s coming.
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Mo Gawdat believes up to 30% of jobs in certain sectors could disappear by 2028. That stopped me in my tracks. Mo was one of the first people to come on this podcast and warn me about AI, long before most of the world was talking about it. At the time, it felt early. Now, it feels like the world is catching up to what he was seeing. I’m still trying to understand what AI actually means for our lives. Not just whether it can write emails, create images or make us more productive. I mean what it does to jobs. What it does to power. What it does to education. What it does to human connection… That’s why I wanted to have this discussion with Mo again. What makes Mo worth listening to is that he saw these systems inside Google years before most of us had even heard the term AI. His book *Scary Smart* now feels like it was written for this exact moment. Let me explain why this discussion matters. Mo believes we’re not just entering an AI revolution. We’re entering a period where AI, robotics, economics, surveillance, digital currencies and global instability are all colliding at the same time. That’s a lot for any of us to process. We spoke about: - The jobs Mo believes are most at risk from AI. - Why he believes that AI is actually underhyped! - The mistake almost everyone is making with ChatGPT. - The prediction that changed even his own view of the future. The part that stayed with me was this idea that human connection may become the real currency. Because if AI can produce the information, write the report, analyse the data, then what is left? I don’t think this conversation gives neat answers. That’s probably why it’s worth watching. It helped me think more honestly about what’s coming.

Steven Bartlett

27,882 views • 2 months ago

ELON: WE COULD POWER ALL OF EARTH WITH SOLAR AND BATTERIES “We already have a giant fusion reactor in the sky called the sun that shows up every day. I always say, if you want to know what standing in front of a fusion reactor feels like, just go out and stand in front of the sun. Just walk outside. That's what a giant fusion reactor feels like because that's what the sun is. It converts about four and a half million tons of mass to energy every second and requires no maintenance. It's amazing. You don't have to refuel it, you don't have to maintain it, it's just there. So my recommendation for fusion is solar power and batteries. We can easily power all of Earth with just photovoltaics and batteries. I mean, not easily, but there's a very clear path to do so and no miracles required, just work.” Source: WSJ Interview, May 23, 2023
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ELON: WE COULD POWER ALL OF EARTH WITH SOLAR AND BATTERIES “We already have a giant fusion reactor in the sky called the sun that shows up every day. I always say, if you want to know what standing in front of a fusion reactor feels like, just go out and stand in front of the sun. Just walk outside. That's what a giant fusion reactor feels like because that's what the sun is. It converts about four and a half million tons of mass to energy every second and requires no maintenance. It's amazing. You don't have to refuel it, you don't have to maintain it, it's just there. So my recommendation for fusion is solar power and batteries. We can easily power all of Earth with just photovoltaics and batteries. I mean, not easily, but there's a very clear path to do so and no miracles required, just work.” Source: WSJ Interview, May 23, 2023

Mario Nawfal

61,247 views • 1 year ago

ELON MUSK: The Future of AI Power is in Space, Not on Earth. "Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the sun's power are you harnessing? You realize you have to go to space and you can't scale very much on Earth. All of the United States currently uses only half a terawatt per hour on average. So you know, if you say a terawatt, that would be twice as much electricity as the United States currently consumes. So that's quite a lot. It's actually very difficult to build power plants and then you don't just need the power plants, you need all of the electrical equipment. Need the electrical transformers to run the transformers. You can build power plants. That's what we did at xAI for Colossus 2. It's very difficult to scale other forms of power. You can scale potentially solar. Solar cells are already very cheap. Now put it in space and it's 10 times cheaper because you don't need any batteries. So the moment your cost of access to space becomes low. By far, the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space. It's not even close. It'll be an order of magnitude easier to scale five years from now. My prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth."
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ELON MUSK: The Future of AI Power is in Space, Not on Earth. "Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the sun's power are you harnessing? You realize you have to go to space and you can't scale very much on Earth. All of the United States currently uses only half a terawatt per hour on average. So you know, if you say a terawatt, that would be twice as much electricity as the United States currently consumes. So that's quite a lot. It's actually very difficult to build power plants and then you don't just need the power plants, you need all of the electrical equipment. Need the electrical transformers to run the transformers. You can build power plants. That's what we did at xAI for Colossus 2. It's very difficult to scale other forms of power. You can scale potentially solar. Solar cells are already very cheap. Now put it in space and it's 10 times cheaper because you don't need any batteries. So the moment your cost of access to space becomes low. By far, the cheapest and most scalable way to generate tokens is space. It's not even close. It'll be an order of magnitude easier to scale five years from now. My prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth."

DogeDesigner

37,916 views • 6 months ago

What if you could earn Bitcoin for doing your daily Bible readings? Well now you can. Let me introduce to you, "The Orange Bible App." I've been hard at work bringing this vision of mine to life and we are finally LIVE on the Apple App Store. The goal is to encourage people to read the whole bible and introduce Christians to Bitcoin for doing it. As you know since writing my book, "The Bible and Bitcoin" I've been on a mission to orange pill the church, I believe this app is the next tool to do that. Read your Bible, earn Bitcoin. Each day you complete your reading your streak grows and you earn more. Miss a day and your streak goes to 0 and you start with the lowest reward again. Gamified bible reading with Bitcoin. It's that simple! Go download it now on the Apple App Store and get started. *Android is coming soon.
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What if you could earn Bitcoin for doing your daily Bible readings? Well now you can. Let me introduce to you, "The Orange Bible App." I've been hard at work bringing this vision of mine to life and we are finally LIVE on the Apple App Store. The goal is to encourage people to read the whole bible and introduce Christians to Bitcoin for doing it. As you know since writing my book, "The Bible and Bitcoin" I've been on a mission to orange pill the church, I believe this app is the next tool to do that. Read your Bible, earn Bitcoin. Each day you complete your reading your streak grows and you earn more. Miss a day and your streak goes to 0 and you start with the lowest reward again. Gamified bible reading with Bitcoin. It's that simple! Go download it now on the Apple App Store and get started. *Android is coming soon.

Pastor Coin

229,242 views • 2 months ago

Built something with the goal of not leaving anyone behind. Now need some testers for this soft-launch. Check it out at Build whatever you can think of. Don't have any ideas? Just talk with your new team. Designed to get you away from the screens, not glued to them. Works great on mobile. Full real world capabilities. The free tier is perfect for people looking to get into AI and learn what its all about. The 'Empir3 Bridge' is for more advanced users and can power the whole empir3 team with your AI subscriptions... Grok, Claude, OpenAI, Google, or your local LLM. Everything runs local making it TOS friendly. Make them all work together in that same session. Fully opensource on GitHub You can use it with or without empir3. Full MCP, just point your AI at that repo and it will set it up. MIT license. New features weekly. *limited space and time until providers give me more channels.
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Built something with the goal of not leaving anyone behind. Now need some testers for this soft-launch. Check it out at Build whatever you can think of. Don't have any ideas? Just talk with your new team. Designed to get you away from the screens, not glued to them. Works great on mobile. Full real world capabilities. The free tier is perfect for people looking to get into AI and learn what its all about. The 'Empir3 Bridge' is for more advanced users and can power the whole empir3 team with your AI subscriptions... Grok, Claude, OpenAI, Google, or your local LLM. Everything runs local making it TOS friendly. Make them all work together in that same session. Fully opensource on GitHub You can use it with or without empir3. Full MCP, just point your AI at that repo and it will set it up. MIT license. New features weekly. *limited space and time until providers give me more channels.

Z®

22,051 views • 3 days ago