Matty Mick

Really beginning to hope that the Sovereign Individual phase of jurisdictions competing for capital allocators, innovators and productive labor, by offering property rights, low taxation, negligible surveillance and free markets begins to ramp quickly…..unfortunately, all I see is dystopian surveillance states gaining power and taxing their productive cattle to keep the system afloat. Any expats want to share their 2nd home destinations and whether they’ve lived up to promises?

Nicely done. Poor man’a brisket, my favorite cut for smoker

At a lacrosse game today. Miss anything pertinent?

College lacrosse season is upon us. Tomorrow’s tailgate prep began at 4:30 this morning. Fastest game on two feet deserves #proofofwork food prep.

Question for your crew: If it is determined that Jane Street has been manipulating the price of bitcoin, and creating billions in losses in liquidating cascades and lost hodler value, but that manipulation has been done by taking advantage of loopholes which are not well defined or illegal within existing law: Should the market regulators: A: define those loopholes and close them immediately B: open an enormous, almost unlimited “loophole exploiters only” area where they and other market makers can continue to create paper bitcoin and other spoofing strategies to distort the market and kill the inelasticity of Bitcoins fixed cap 21M supply

Coretard vs Knotzi question: If it is determined that Jane Street has been manipulating the price of bitcoin, and creating billions in losses in liquidating cascades and lost hodler value, but that manipulation has been done by taking advantage of loopholes which are not well defined or illegal within existing law: Should the market regulators: A: define those loopholes and close them immediately B: open an enormous, almost unlimited “loophole exploiters only” area where they and other market makers can continue to create paper bitcoin and other spoofing strategies to distort the market and kill the inelasticity of Bitcoins fixed cap 21M supply

You’re doing your best to gaslight here, particularly after I said I’m not signaling bip-110. You could easily look at the mempool screenshot and draw the conclusion that the taproot enabled workarounds that allowed inscriptions and dust utxo bloat is livable and that fees would drive them out with more L1 use, but also conclude that unilaterally blowing out op-return opens additional unwanted vectors that an 83 byte return didnt. 🤷‍♂️. Balance takes are lost here on both sides but again, you’ve concluded that those trying to learn, assess and decide are retarded if they dont agree with you.

I’ve been called retarded quite a bit in the last 24 hours. I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about ₿, bip-110 and how it correlates to my other lifelong passion, aortic surgery. There are several parallels to protocol rule consensus and aseptic technique/sterile field, bacteria to spam, and rule changes to combat new pathogens. Perhaps I’ll write those parallels down, or perhaps I’ll keep my retarded ideas to myself. Either way, my nodes will signal their vote on the future direction of the protocol once I’ve completed my technical review of both arguments. Name calling doesn’t bother me, but is certainly not constructive. Knotzies vs Coretard is elementary school playground stuff…not the hallmark of constructive discourse. @c49d52a5…751aca15

👋. Perhaps you should have read the full text for context…but hey, I’m just a retard so what do I know? https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsg3p2790h0ktwr9n2q4a50qf8m3…

No, definitely not. I'm not signaling bip-110 and am still evaluating the technical arguments for both sides....but thanks for the broad assumptions and name calling...it definitely helps with open discourse. From Loop's piece today, which I'm still digesting: "I believe that our primary goal should be to build / discover enough valuable use cases that we can generate sustainable demand for block space that results in a robust block space market and thus drives enough fee revenue to miners that it offsets the ever-decreasing block subsidy. " My comment was an observation that one side is interested in a fee market for blockspace (data). Blockspace has value but it doesn't make it "hard money." The other side seems to be working to revert to the principals of hard money...which prop the native token of the blockchain Bitcoin. Taproot and the blowout of opreturn is enabling the fee market for data, but not necessarily hardening the money. But hey, that just my retarded take. My nodes will signal what I choose when I'm finished with my thorough....some would call it zealous, review.

because one side doesn't think its money

So revert the witness discount AND capping op return seems like a reasonable compromise. Dust moves to op return…but doesnt allow large data sets embedded in op…its a limited capacity dumpster. I assume this would also require a soft-fork to undue parts of segwit. Complicated.