obliterator918

Last week Fountain didn't get my boost through to you so I am doubling up this week and sending two. This is not the first time I have had to try a boost a second time to get it through Fountain. This week you asked what we think about buying bitcoin-adjacent stocks. Personally, I think one of bitcoin's strengths is that it doesn't have a CEO. Does bitcoin become better when you add a CEO to it? As much as I like Mallers and Saylor, the answer for me is an obvious NOPEY McNOPERSON. Mallers' promise to increase bitcoin per share is interesting, but in the end, I just don't see why I would buy one of these stocks when I can hold the asset myself.

Just a little Boosty McBoosterson to say that while I agree that we don’t need to worry about mining pools attacking the network, for the obvious reason that they have no incentive to destroy the value in the system, there are still entities out there who might just want to do exactly that. The same governments who can print money to buy mining hardware just may decide that it’s a good investment to destroy fiat’s only real competition. I don’t necessarily think this will happen, but, it’s a possibility.

By the way, about sponsorships: I wouldn't mind hearing them because I know what it would mean for you as the creator. I listen to the boosts every week and I know it's not enough money for the value you are providing. That said, is it increasing over time? If the show grows, do you see this working with boosts only? That would be great.

Chris, your economics analysis is spot on and usually has an angle I haven’t heard from anyone else. Nobody else is doing this as well as you are. Keep up the good work. Me and my kids love TWIB. I’ve been running a node for some time but since I never spend sats I haven’t set up lightening. I sent you some Quatloos on PayPal but really felt like I need to participate in the system and do a proper boost, so I went through yet another KYC process and have Strike working. Here’s my first boost with many more to come.

So much for the tariff talk easing up, eh?

I remember using the bitcoin faucet. I also remember when I could download the bitcoin client and mine multiple bitcoin on my CPU. I said, "well that's pointless." All of those sats are forever gone. If you aren't humbled by bitcoin at some point, you aren't trying hard enough, I say. Also, on my previous boost, you seemed to struggle just a bit with "quatloos," which is what I call dirty fiat. I am a tad surprised you missed the reference. In original Star Trek, the three pulsating brains on Triskelion bet large quantities of Quatloos on gladiator combat. It was all that remained of their economy -- three dudes betting ridiculous amounts of fiat currency that meant nothing. Keep up the good work! -Obliterator-nine-one-eight (Obl918 or Obi for short)

I remember using the bitcoin faucet. I also remember when I could download the bitcoin client and mine multiple bitcoin on my CPU. I said, "well that's pointless." All of those sats are forever gone. If you aren't humbled by bitcoin at some point, you aren't trying hard enough, I say. Also, on my previous boost, you seemed to struggle just a bit with "quatloos," which is what I call dirty fiat. I am a tad surprised you missed the reference. In original Star Trek, the three pulsating brains on Triskelion bet large quantities of Quatloos on gladiator combat. It was all that remained of their economy -- three dudes betting ridiculous amounts of fiat currency that meant nothing. Keep up the good work! -Obliterator-nine-one-eight (Obl918 or Obi for short)

Just a little Boosty McBoosterson to say that while I agree that we don’t need to worry about mining pools attacking the network, for the obvious reason that they have no incentive to destroy the value in the system, there are still entities out there who might just want to do exactly that. The same governments who can print money to buy mining hardware just may decide that it’s a good investment to destroy fiat’s only real competition. I don’t necessarily think this will happen, but, it’s a possibility. With regard to tariffs, I think something that we need to keep in mind is that tariffs are not meant to help “number go up” for the markets. Agree or disagree with their effectiveness, the idea is to try to get things moving in the right direction for national security. It’s not good to rely on adversarial nations for all of the stuff we need and not make our own goods. Unfortunately it make be too late to fix the problem, and tariffs won’t fix the fact that the US has chiefly exported nothing but fiat debt for so long.

Boosty McBoosterson.

Boosty McBoosterson

Going to miss the show next week for sure. Oh and.... BOOSTY McBOOSTERSON!

The question is, do the Bitcoin Core developers now control Bitcoin? They sure think so -- they've locked discussion and are saying that if you haven't contributed code to Core then your opinion isn't even going to be considered. But Bitcoin is not an oligarchy. Node operators ultimately decide what is appropriate for Bitcoin, not a Core developer. I switched to Knots. Anyone who is monetarily supporting Core devs should seriously reconsider their support.

By the way, I love the in depth coverage of US economics. Don't even think about scaling it back.

Who is so clueless about Bitcoin that they sell it right along with their stocks,just to hold the dollar, which is guaranteed to fo down in value? I get why the market spooks and sells, but Bitcoin is not some US corporation. Just goes to show that having money is not the same as having wisdom. BOOSTY McBOOSTERSON!

Great job covering the Core drama and other news. You asked if we missed the economics coverage. I always love me some economics coverage in TWiB, but you can only fit so much into one show. Keep up the good work.

6100 for 61! Since Jack Dorsey gets to rename bitcoin denominations I will call this "61 centi-sats." Also, this week's irony: Core merges a highly controversial change blowing up the OP_RETURN limit despite all the NACKs and contention, with no time for consensus either way to form. Then they say this is so that people will stop using the TapRoot/Segwit exploit to do inscriptions and other abuses of the witness data. But do they merge the fix for the inscriptions exploit? No, because that PR is "too controversial." Am I supposed to believe they actually think that people abusing the 75% discounted witness data for their "fun projects" are suddenly going to start paying more to use OP_RETURN instead? Really guys?