Quote from: WatChe on October 21, 2023, 07:46:16 AM

Quote from: Hueristic on October 20, 2023, 07:10:02 PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zitIm432k

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There exists a much less discussed but incredibly influential member of the silk road story. That man, is variety jones. The secret and forgotten mastermind of the entire operation.

Nice Share for people who join this forum just few years ago.

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Silk Road was at least in the very beginning a very placid environment where like minded people came to share a common goal that goal just happened to be highly illegal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9zitIm432k

Quote from: Hueristic on October 20, 2023, 07:10:02 PM

Hey JJg, you have a cameo as well as a few other members.

There is a silk road thread on Bitcointalk.org also that was very much active from Mar 1, 2011 to Jun 15, 2011. JJG is the only one I know there.

I did not really know much about bitcoin until November 2013, and I did not join the forum until February 2014. The ONLY place that I saw myself or my username was that I had merited one of the cited posts - which surely the merit system first started in January 2018.

Quote from: Paashaas on October 21, 2023, 12:33:10 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on October 21, 2023, 12:00:50 PM

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Quote from: Biodom on October 20, 2023, 10:33:12 PM

Well, if that dev Bob cited is right, then Lightning is apparently cooked unless a fix is possible.
If so, Phil has a solid argument as you cannot accommodate coffee buying on bitcoin (without Lightning).

Do I care? Not much as my infrequent txs can still be posted, but it (bitcoin) cannot be a medium of exchange for the planet.
Is BitVM any better? I have no clue, maybe it is too new.

Perplexed.

Last time I'd check, Bitcoin and Lightning was still being developed and improvements are being sort and worked through...

am I missing something?.... the narrative over the last a few pages make it seem like, that is it! we are fucked! nothing can be done to solve buying a coffee!

stop being a BTC maxer and let LTC/Doge do the lite work.

BTW I will be driving to the mine and dropping in 550th of BTC miners and zero Scrypt miners.

Poor shitcoiner Philima1957 can't phantom that his beloved shitcoins wil never be able to carry all that global adoption weight that will irrevocable lead to implosion.

Netherless, Twitter should have been exploded by now if Lightning is in serious trouble. This is a bump along the way to completion, enough brainpower available fixing it.

Relax, have a nice weekend.

It does seem that Phil does get a bit distracted sometimes, and also a bit distracted into meaningless nonsense, and sure he might think that someone's gotta mine shitcoins, which truly is not the case. He was mining that piece of shit, aka ethereum, up until the day that they pulled the rugs on him and sure he complained a bit about their pulling the rug, but it is not like they did not tell him that they were going to pull the rug for like 5 or more years prior to actually pulling it.. so some people (miners) felt some kind of need to mine that crap.. including that they were making profits (and some of them were so excited to contribute to a crappy project), until they weren't..

Quote from: sirazimuth on October 21, 2023, 04:08:18 PM

Quote from: philipma1957 on October 21, 2023, 03:33:07 PM

....30k in under a day yea!

Then a dump back to 25k and we do it all over again, hello.

You deserve a slappening for that negative nancy comment, sirazimuth

Quote from: Richy_T on October 21, 2023, 05:50:40 PM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on October 21, 2023, 05:36:10 AM

By the way, last time I checked, less than 10 sats per vbyte to send transactions is not exactly going to kill anyone... and surely the current mempool status and even in the last three weeks, seems to have had been clearing 2-4 sats per byte without too many difficulties... .. which is $0.20 to $1 per transaction, unless maybe you are combining addresses, but you can send $100 or even $1billion for the same fee. Not exactly expensive or broken... but hey, whine all you like. It's a free country the last time I checked..

For a lot of us, the point was to get away from filthy fiat. The current state of the world financially should have been a huge boon for Bitcoin.

The last time I checked, just a few minutes ago, bitcoin is doing quite well.

Quote from: Richy_T on October 21, 2023, 05:50:40 PM

Inflation frequently hanging out near double digits screams for an alternative. But when adoption turned to disadoption and the Bitcoin ecosystem withered away, a lot of incentive is lost when you have to deal with exchanges which represent counterparty risk and loss of privacy under US laws.

There are a variety of ways to use bitcoin, even if you might initially get your BTC through some 3rd party KYC service. Many exchanges still offer abilities to remove BTC from exchanges, which quite a few people do.. not everyone but quite a few, and surely we still are going to need to see how some of these self-custody versus 3rd party custody matters are going to play out. The mere fact that there are various attack vectors and potential attack vectors on bitcoin does not necessarily take away from bitcoin's current power or that fact that bitcoin is quite likely going to continue to be powerful, and if you don't believe in the number go up angle of bitcoin, then diversify out of it, and if you are concerned about some of the lack of autonomy angles what are you going to do?

Is there some other project that is better than bitcoin to be in? Are you thinking about some supposedly powerful shitcoin because bitcoin still retains quite a lot of its original qualities that make it difficult to change, which seems to remain a feature rather than a bug... were you wanting to change bitcoin in some kind of a way?

You want to make it so that others do not create financial instruments around it and try to trick people out of their bitcoin? Yes, a lot of them are going to have luck in terms of getting people to buy their products rather than holding their own keys, but I have my doubts about whether that is going to break bitcoin in the future.. even though you seem to be wanting to suggest that bitcoin is currently broken because there are people/institutions and governments inspiring various attacks on bitcoin, but they have not succeeded yet.. the last time I checked, in spite of your ongoing whining and seemingly negative nancy tendencies.