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Aaron van Wirdum
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Author of The Genesis Book. Former Editor-in-Chief at Bitcoin Magazine.
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Shitcoin Mechanic also.
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Luke out.
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Bitcoin, Explained 101: The COLDCARD Hack. On the bug itself, how it could have happened, and some reflections on having had Coinkite as a sponsor. With
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Aug 22
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¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Aug 22
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Sure. Still, price isn’t determined only by Normal Street. Of course if we _really_ wanted to know how the BTC price would be affected by accepting/rejecting BIP110 we should have had futures markets— unfortunately the BIP110 charlatans rejected any attempt to establish these as they said would be “gambling”.
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Aug 21
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Not only did I read it, I found footage of him working on it!
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Aug 21
Imma call this the post-110 pump.
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Aug 12
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I followed it for an hour or so but then had to leave. Apparently they settled on BLAKE2b in the end.
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Aug 11
The testnet forkwar to determine PoW algo for Bitcoin-jr is more exciting than the BIP110 fork war itself was tbh.
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Aug 11
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Apparently it was premature to call it for Blake2b-256. See:
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Aug 11
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(They used testnet because they don’t want to use “Bpedo” and BIP110 blocks are coming in too slow— if any more will come in at all.)
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Aug 11
Bdashers decided to use a testnet block header to randomly determine the proof-of-work algorithm for their forkcoin, but now testnet has been forked and they don’t know what to pick. (lol)
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Aug 11
Update, August 11, 14:30 UTC: Scenario 1 played out. The BIP110 chain is currently stalled at two blocks, with no new blocks mined for well over two days. Bitcoin Knots lead developer Luke Dashjr plans to deploy a hard fork to change the proof-of-work algorithm to Blake2b-256 on this chain on or around September 1, in effect creating a forkcoin.
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Aug 10
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You don't really understand things, do you?
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Aug 10
Did investigative reporter
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put out his 10,000 word plebslop report on miner collusion yet?
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Aug 9
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Tells your node that the first block on the BIP110 chain is invalid. (Which of course means that entire chain is considered invalid.)
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Aug 9
Just in case the Bdashers’ wipeout argument does stick around: Bitcoin nodes can always reject the BIP110 chain even in the *extremely* unlikely scenario that it would overtake the Bitcoin chain at some point, by running bitcoin-cli invalidateblock 0000000000000000000169eb6f811ddbd0daf343af7b62180cdb13e7c78dbc16.
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Aug 7
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Bdashers about to hard fork:
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Aug 7
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TBH I kind of doubt it. Back in the 2017 fork days several exchanges said they'd only list forkcoins that implemented replay protection. But idk, maybe after POW hard fork? Trading fees are their revenue stream, so if enough people want to buy or sell BIP110 coin...
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Aug 7
Dusted off that pen to explain what could happen when Bitcoin Knots starts rejecting blocks that don’t signal support for BIP110 this weekend.
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Aug 4
BIP110 proof-of-work hard fork incoming!
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To add a little bit of nuance... If 99% miners now start signaling but still accept non-signaling blocks as well, it makes no difference. Knots nodes will stall/fork off. However if any majority of miners start signaling AND reject non-signaling blocks, that would still suffice for BIP110. (Non-signaling blocks would basically be 51%-attacked so they ultimately don't end up in the longest chain.) I'm planning to publish a full write-up on this later this week.
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Aug 1
BIP110 can as of now no longer be activated through hash power signaling. The "mandatory signaling" window starts next week, which practically speaking means Bitcoin Knots nodes will stall and/or fork off-- unless basically all miners suddenly decide to adopt this nonsense after all.
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Jul 31
Repost for Nostr.
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Jul 30
COLDCARD Mk3 vulnerability:
blog.coinkite.com/coldcard-mk3-seed-g...
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Jul 30
Luke's fierce battle visualized on bip110.com.
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Jul 29
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The Blocksize War tells an important chapter of Bitcoin's history.
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Jul 29
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Happy to see you post about something completely unrelated to BIP110!
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Jul 28
"YOU MUST URSF IF YOU'RE AGAINST BIP110!!"
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Jul 26
Investigative journalist
@npub1cjw...j2rh
working on his CAPTURE series.
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Jul 25
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The more people dump BIP110 coins the lower the price of BIP110 coins will be and thus less incentive to mine the BIP110 chain. (This assumes there’s even a way and place to dump them in the first place.)
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Jul 23
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If there are ~no blocks on your BIP110 chain how long will you wait before deploying a POW change?
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Jul 17
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Jul 5
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Nostr doesn't boost controversy and/or Nostr users aren't as addicted to engagement?
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Jun 25
DMND, the Stratum V2 mining pool, just mined its first block.
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Jun 24
The failure of BIP110 will reveal that social media drama is just noise and I think that's wonderful.
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Jun 22
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In his mind (and his cultish followers) the BIP110 rules will be the new Bitcoin protocol. If ~no blocks are mined on this fork chain, he's saying users (him and his followers) should change the POW algorithm to something else, which presumably means people can mine with GPUs again on this chain, at least initially. It would really just create a forkcoin, not unlike Bitcoin Cash, but like many Bitcoin Cash supporters they'll claim it's "the real Bitcoin". I'm not sure that answers your questio...
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Jun 3
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The X algorithm optimizes for outrage.
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May 28
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Not gonna sit through more Kratter plebslob but assuming this is about Mechanic's game theory I'll leave this here.
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May 28
In a new episode of What Bitcoin Did with
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,
@nprofile...566r
talks about the game theory behind BIP110, which he believes makes it virtually guaranteed to succeed. There was a lot of discussion about these dynamics in anticipat...
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In a new episode of What Bitcoin Did with
@npub16le...ffxj
,
@npub1wnl...n3wr
talks about the game theory behind BIP110, which he believes makes it virtually guaranteed to succeed. There was a lot of discussion about these dynamics in anticipation of the Segwit UASF (BIP148) in 2017; I for example wrote this article about it at the time:
bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/op-ed-h...
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May 28
The German translation of The Genesis Book is now available for preorder! Ganz toll.
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sgtm
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May 12
In August 2017, users proved that miners can’t block a valuable upgrade. In August 2026, miners will prove that users can’t push through a harmful upgrade.
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May 6
What's the Plan For a Post-Quantum Soft-Fork: Bitcoin 2026 panel featuring Jonathan Bier, Mike Casey, Christian Papathanasiou and Ian Smith, and moderated by myself.
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May 5
Preserving the Historical Record of Bitcoin Knowledge: Bitcoin 2026 panel featuring Jonathan Bier, Michael Goldstein and myself, and moderated by Paul Rosenberg.
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Apr 26
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IIUC this post will be shown on the Open Source stage at Bitcoin 2026 so people can zap me during our panel.
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Apr 14
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If your answer is an address index that also seems a bit underwhelming; BTCDrak already released such a Bitcoin Core fork over a decade ago but I guess no one really cared:
bitcoinmagazine.com/technical/bitcoin...
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Apr 14
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Do you have an answer to this question?
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I couldn’t find much on these Bitcoin Maps websites. Only place I’ve paid with bitcoin so far is the Bitcoin house itself. But maybe a local knows more than I do.
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Apr 1
Bitcoin House Bali
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Apr 1
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Roy
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Mar 25
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It'll only serve as a check on the direction of development if people use it. So my question is, what exactly will be the product differentiation that will get people to use it? If the answer is different policy defaults that seems a bit underwhelming since, well, they're defaults and can already be changed...
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The general idea of adjusting difficulty predates Bitcoin, but (AFAIK) Bitcoin was the first with a difficulty adjustment *algorithm* :)
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No offense taken, I think this is exactly right. And both the Iranian and the UAE governments probably know this as well. To be fair, I have seen some “we’re not fucking leaving” sentiment among expats. But as mentioned daily life is also still pretty normal; I doubt it will persist for very long if things keep getting tougher from here.
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Mar 12
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It’s a jihadist regime that killed thousands, perhaps tens of thousands, of its own citizens earlier this year.
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Mar 12
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There is a US airbase in Abu Dhabi, but the UAE government is explicitly not letting the Americans use it to attack Iran. Nevertheless this is the excuse the IRGC is giving: they say they’re “just” attacking US bases and assets. (If true they would appear to have very bad aim.) It seems more like the Jihadist regime is basically taking the entire region hostage to gain leverage in this war.
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Mar 12
So I’ve been living in Dubai since last summer. Not because I like the city — I don't — but because my girlfriend lived there when we met and she wasn't quite ready to leave yet. Admittedly the tax benefit is nice too. Earlier this week we decided to get out however, at least for a couple of weeks, to see how the situation develops without being in the middle of it. The uncertainty of it all and potential for escalation is just not a comfortable situation to be in. With that said, daily life i...
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Mar 5
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You don’t know what you’re talking about.
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Mar 5
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- No, it’s self-evident (all else equal) - Libre Relay is not private and that’s the point - Your hamburger analogy makes no sense whatsoever in this context
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Dear
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@npub1lh2...a9nk
, would you please be so kind as to define by what process network consent should be formally obtained?
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