# ![@oomahq Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1861017169158410240.png) @oomahq Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus

Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus posts on X about bitcoin, core, mining, hashrate the most. They currently have [------] followers and [----] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
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**Social topic influence**
[bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #6793, [core](/topic/core), [mining](/topic/mining) #414, [hashrate](/topic/hashrate) #97, [money](/topic/money), [in the](/topic/in-the), [spam](/topic/spam), [fiat](/topic/fiat), [onchain](/topic/onchain), [blockchain](/topic/blockchain)

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@Fudmottin @notgrubles On Bitcoin Core it's not possible to discard inscriptions unless you patch the source code manually. datacarrier=0 only drops op_returns. Better to run @BitcoinKnots. With default settings it discards inscriptions and op_returns are capped at [--] bytes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1861792840155595017)  2024-11-27T15:22Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@FreeSpeechBTC21 It's been possible all along both the code for Sparrow and the Whirlpool coordinator are open source. What's been missing is someone with big enough balls to run it and who is not a spook"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1861793709920006485)  2024-11-27T15:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@sliv3r__ @BtcCatalunya sats/ratafia ojo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1864662576732262704)  2024-12-05T13:26Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bitcoinapolis55 Oh I agree wholeheartedly. This article is just a collection of links to http://trilema.com http://trilema.com"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1865067118338732495)  2024-12-06T16:13Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@jimmysong @bitstein It is probably inevitable but I don't see how it protects anyone from state oppression/banning/confiscation. When FDR issued Executive Order [----] and confiscated everyone's gold was precisely because the United States had a "strategic gold reserve" and it wanted a larger one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1865079825028854214)  2024-12-06T17:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@leo_haf @MrHodl @beeforbacon1 @matijaoe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1865164314119708996)  2024-12-06T22:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheGuySwann Ackchyually. It does matter when there are contentious forks like in 2017"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1867194882051191094)  2024-12-12T13:08Z [--] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeorgeSelgin In a world where fiat legal tender laws are the norm this implies that to economists "money" is just whatever the governments tells them it's money. But in that case why would anyone be interested in your opinion We can go to the source just as you do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1867886686849671277)  2024-12-14T10:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GeorgeSelgin I can't readily think of any examples of private monies that are "generally accepted" but maybe you do Conversely even trash tier currencies like the Argentine peso the Turkish lira or the Venezuelan bolivar are generally accepted (by decree/force) in their own countries"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1867889308834975772)  2024-12-14T11:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@chad_pleb @leo_haf @FractalEncrypt Transactions have always encoded integer amounts the [--] decimal places thingy is regarded. Let's do the split and get this over with 😎"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1868352890877677839)  2024-12-15T17:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@p0stc4p0n3 @_kami_gawa @rot13maxi Been wasting my time for [--] minutes clicking blocks at random and couldn't find not even one where SIGHASH_SINGLE transactions are nowhere near 50% of blockspace 🤣 This is more representative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1868984539638645079)  2024-12-17T11:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@kyletorpey I'm worried that "no capital gains tax" is way far from 99.99% 💀"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1869133102980948074)  2024-12-17T21:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@giacomozucco @notgrubles @szarka My grudge is that it is obnoxious to call SBRs "nation state adoption". Nation state adoption would look like abolishing capital gains tax & enshrining citizens' right to use BTC. Maybe also abolish legal tender laws. SBRs are just the first step that leads to EO [----] lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1869419348433207309)  2024-12-18T16:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@szarka @notgrubles @giacomozucco Thing is it does already Core has had filters since [----]. Including the [--] byte limit for OP_RETURN. Consensus allows up to [--] KB but these TXs are not relayed by default. It's just that the current maintainers don't want to stir any drama that could compromise funding sources"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1869494286112419864)  2024-12-18T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@szarka @notgrubles @giacomozucco Precisely they rejected adding this option for node runners. In v25 they even went to the lengths of stealthily rewriting the description of -datacarriersize to more easily justify rejecting the PR that tried to add the option. Fortunately there's Knots https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/faafc35a779745d59fdb0e88698b579215f42b08 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/commit/faafc35a779745d59fdb0e88698b579215f42b08"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1869498060675678704)  2024-12-18T21:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Didja know that for Bitcoin to compete as medium of exchange with other currencies OP_DROP_CGT is way more important than OP_CTV anon @jonatack @TheRulersBroken @Pledditor @GrassFedBitcoin @stacyherbert I'd be surprised if anyone ever escaped CGT anywhere in the world on the grounds that Bitcoin was legal tender in ES. Do you know if this change will bring CGT for using Bitcoin *inside* ES That'd suck. IMO it's the biggest obstacle holding BTC from competing as MoE elsewhere. @jonatack @TheRulersBroken @Pledditor @GrassFedBitcoin @stacyherbert I'd be surprised if anyone ever escaped CGT"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1869790801842319788)  2024-12-19T17:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@notgrubles "By the way I'm also storing cat pictures and static channel backups in inscriptions I'm sorry if that makes it more difficult to run a node in your puny RPi""  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1869828039665954953)  2024-12-19T19:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""Great Consensus Cleanup Soft-Fork" "Great Script Restoration Soft-Fork" "LNHANCE Soft-Fork" Politicians are not the only ones that are fond of passing Omnibus Bills you know Thomas Massie (R-KY) is the BEST House Rep and 2nd place isn't very close. @RepThomasMassie https://t.co/R0Zc7sPQzt Thomas Massie (R-KY) is the BEST House Rep and 2nd place isn't very close. @RepThomasMassie https://t.co/R0Zc7sPQzt"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870111947540091074)  2024-12-20T14:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@kimandjang1031 OP_DROP_CAPITAL_GAINS_TAX. Without activating it first all other opcodes are useless for scaling bitcoin to mass adoption"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870431270611632442)  2024-12-21T11:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@faisal_qrs No capital gains tax after a certain number of years holding. Better than nothing but still insufficient to use bitcoin as everyday medium of exchange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870441231022424210)  2024-12-21T12:08Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The little star is absolutely right believe it or not. An SBR is bad for Bitcoin. What you actually want is to drop capital gains tax on Bitcoin so that it can be used like normal money. Otherwise there's no chance it can compete with USD or any other fiat currency. My full length treatment of my case against the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is out in @BitcoinMagazine: I dont support a Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and neither should you (article linked in next tweet) https://t.co/Eq7pkGJENF My full length treatment of my case against the Strategic Bitcoin Reserve is out in @BitcoinMagazine: I dont"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870554191585853487)  2024-12-21T19:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"The US government has nothing to gain from stacking bitcoin. More like the opposite (widespread loss of confidence on their shitcoin). Inflation is an infinite money glitch for the government. Inflation is an infinite money glitch for the government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870572425760649433)  2024-12-21T20:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@NTeterel I agree with @nic__carter on this. It's intuitive to me that in general govt's have more to lose from jeopardizing their shitcoin than they have to gain from stacking sats with the printer. But nowhere is this more true than in the case of the USD which is world reserve currency"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870580801231859819)  2024-12-21T21:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NTeterel @nic__carter And precisely because it already took the money from Russia and the BRICS are growing restless stacking bitcoin with the printer would be another nail in the coffin for the dollar"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870581388472398257)  2024-12-21T21:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Distribuovany @kimandjang1031 Already solves it for paranoid crypto anarchists like us. But we cannot expect the masses of NPCs to do the same in general they want to comply with all laws and regulations and do everything above board"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1870770452119142736)  2024-12-22T09:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Kluckies_ 100% State adoption is dropping capital gains tax on Bitcoin like El Salvador did. Strategic Bitcoin Reserves are the first step towards Executive Order 6102"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1871146392858849440)  2024-12-23T10:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@LukeDashjr @stutxo Is there anything inherently wrong with package relay and [--] fee TXs To me they seem like a good idea to simplify LN force close TXs. 🤔🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1871211366066897339)  2024-12-23T15:08Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@sathoarder @satskeeper To the unwashed peasants"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1871341827103826126)  2024-12-23T23:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Conza @saifedean @evoskuil Did he say bitcoin is a fiat money like the USD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1871343781167202751)  2024-12-23T23:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Limburg3rt04 @SirBoughtALot @shortnon_btc @BitcoinBrabant @btc_cbs @El_Cid_deKadena @thierrybaudet @OwneraIO Just let him stack "Kadena" while we stack sats I see absolutely no problem with that 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1871868302706016652)  2024-12-25T10:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BTCtoolshed @btc_privacy 🤡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1871987657913540739)  2024-12-25T18:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@privacymatter21 @FieldNas @UnderCoercion This is perfectly reasonable but consider that there's a slim chance that you and your spouse could die simultaneously in a fire/car accident/plane crash. No need for any custodian. Just backup the seed the passphrase and the inheritance instructions in [--] different locations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1872025162423615791)  2024-12-25T21:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@nunchuk_io After playing with this on signet with [--] of [--] and [--] of [--] multisig wallets I gotta say this is a great design you've come up with. I hope it gets standardized (or at least gets popular) and other wallets follow your lead"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1872043663137923317)  2024-12-25T22:16Z [---] followers, 10.1K engagements


"@1914ad "Caspa" means dandruff in Spanish. All the signs were there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1872233822655578436)  2024-12-26T10:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@KumoKlouds @1914ad Sorry for your loss I guess"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1872367925769957421)  2024-12-26T19:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@elonmusk That was [--] years ago. Can't bankrupt twice while still in bankruptcy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1872443817066201529)  2024-12-27T00:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lacrosse_al @MrHodl @pete_rizzo_ @Pledditor All the countries ETFs big miners exchanges etc. that hold bitcoin tend to make their addresses known as some sort of proof of reserves. When asked about it Saylor says "people don't know what it is like to run a publicly traded company" and "there are security risks" (lol)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1872781938051956977)  2024-12-27T23:09Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheL0wner Right. A tool to store fart mp3s forever and scam fools with ugly pics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1873149563743486173)  2024-12-28T23:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@notgrubles "The roadmap for Bitcoin [---] is we voluntarily relinquish all control of Bitcoin [---] like Satoshi did with Bitcoin 1.0" 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1873499074303049732)  2024-12-29T22:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GrassFedBitcoin [----] Bitcoin of demand on mine. Only [----] measly BTC of inscription garbage 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1874007405006381558)  2024-12-31T08:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@benogl @GrassFedBitcoin OP_DROP_CAPITAL_GAINS_TAX Current activation status 👇"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1874101566464287057)  2024-12-31T14:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@brian_trollz "Arbitrary order or decree" aka "fiat" implies compulsory usage by state coercion. I may value Bitcoin but that doesn't force anyone else to use it let alone value it. Try again Maybe with 5x more paragraphs"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1874581157352022336)  2025-01-01T22:19Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@stephanlivera @btc_privacy @SeedSigner @Coinkite AFAIK the firmware on the Pi0 is read-only (@sesi_the_man plz confirm) so only the manufacturer can rug you not random bad actors. As for the software running on the microSD it can be built deterministically and is shipped with digital signatures that can be verified by users"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1874930365649109367)  2025-01-02T21:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@NTeterel Never has been. https://x.com/ydemombynes/status/1874763973155074552 "Bitcoin is for enemies" means: "I accept that people I dont like may use Bitcoin" NOT: "I beg my enemy to buy Bitcoin for him - with my money" https://x.com/ydemombynes/status/1874763973155074552 "Bitcoin is for enemies" means: "I accept that people I dont like may use Bitcoin" NOT: "I beg my enemy to buy Bitcoin for him - with my money""  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875312868184486268)  2025-01-03T22:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


""spam filters don't work" I give you the spam filters in action: Let's grok together what these stats mean 🧵 This is the total number of UTXOs in the UTXO set as of block [------] grouped in ranges I carefully handpicked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1875339328127431016)  2025-01-04T00:31Z [----] followers, 15.1K engagements


"Note also that [--] sat UTXOs are possible (there are currently 863k of these out of [-----] million). Why don't the spammers create [--] sat dust Because spam filters severely rate limit the creation of these UTXOs forcing the spammers to spend 300x-500x more sats they'd like /🧵"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875341045745250354)  2025-01-04T00:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


""Show me a non-incentive aligned spam filter and I'll show you how it's trivially bypassed" like to say the gigabrain devs. B U L L S H I T 🌈"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875341814745673921)  2025-01-04T00:41Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@NTeterel Plus I get to keep MY bitcoins. Big assumption. Personally I see countries who stack sats as more likely to try to confiscate everyone's sats than those who doesn't. You're (mostly) still safe if you transact without KYC but most people don't. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Executive_Order_6102"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875460397584777713)  2025-01-04T08:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NTeterel I rather wish my country removed capital gains tax from spending Bitcoin and lowered or removed all the other taxes so I can save more bitcoin Couldn't care less if they hold bitcoin or not. They can always print fiat money and shove it down our throats they'll be ok"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875460955485958581)  2025-01-04T08:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@NicerInPerson @giacomozucco @elonmusk Who cares. They're not anyone's interests"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875496569027621033)  2025-01-04T10:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Why is it that I've never seen any Bitcoin Core dev championing to fix the year [----] bug It's *required* that we do it at some point it's easy to fix there would be consensus to do it and we wouldn't even notice (before 2106) we hardforked. I would get behind this hard fork"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875534646303453205)  2025-01-04T13:28Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@OrangeSurfBTC Quite the contrary. These numbers show that spammers submit to the dust limit filters i.e. they prefer to burn 300x-500x more sats to stay within standardness rules than create [--] sat UTXOs and be filtered by 99% of nodes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875659371994284264)  2025-01-04T21:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@peterktodd @LukeDashjr @theinstagibbs Well I guess we'll see 🤷♂ It's trivial to count and show the mental-illness sub-1000 sat UTXOs in the UTXO set with a node"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875671565511303376)  2025-01-04T22:32Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@peterktodd @LukeDashjr @theinstagibbs Speaking of which I still have to redo this thread again with a node synced to block #774628 and compare both sub-1000 sat UTXO sets in painstaking detail"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875672513361195153)  2025-01-04T22:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@btc_privacy Why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1875870791226773510)  2025-01-05T11:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kimandjang1031 Spain's economy has basically flatlined since [----]. But inflation taxes and regulations are always on the raise of course"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1876999282542190725)  2025-01-08T14:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Do I know any bitcoiners in Norway 🤔"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1877372844608225630)  2025-01-09T15:12Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@UnderCoercion I doubt I can reach out to him though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1877376729385193506)  2025-01-09T15:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Somehow 30% of my timeline ended up being Korean and I don't mind it every time I decide to click the Translate button I'm seldomly disappointed. Any clue why are there so many based Knots and BitAxe noderunners in South Korea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1877504149874511937)  2025-01-09T23:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@sathoarder Stay safu out there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1877730405614252228)  2025-01-10T14:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@noosphere888x2 @dammkewl @maxtannahill Kek. I can point at your "privacy best practices" instead of calling you names. Would never trade places"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1877748852255502747)  2025-01-10T16:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@kimandjang1031 @chad_pleb He was already bald when he played these games for the first time 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1878078074266280369)  2025-01-11T13:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@leo_haf @FreeSpeechBTC21 @privateimtiaz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1878196225926648085)  2025-01-11T21:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"The strategic Bitcoin reserve and the annexation of Greenland are boring AF. In the next Trump administration I want to see abolition of capital gains tax on Bitcoin and the secession of the Republic of Texas. The Bitcoin Standard is a really good book but The State in the Third Millenium is the actionable blueprint to an hyperbitcoinized world. Reject socialism nationalism and representative democracy. Embrace small govt direct democracy and the right of self-determination. The Bitcoin Standard is a really good book but The State in the Third Millenium is the actionable blueprint to an"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1878206728690422043)  2025-01-11T22:25Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@stephanlivera @BitcoinPierre "Anything that attacks Bitcoin is going to cause an immune system response" So how come the Bitcoin network settled [--] times less value in [----] than in [----] with price recovering and full blocks all the time Granted it was good for Riot Platforms. https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1875378485881197025 The Bitcoin network finalized more than $19 trillion worth of BTC transactions in [----] decisively proving that bitcoin is both a store-of-value and a medium-of-exchange. https://t.co/NqPI8Db1We https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1875378485881197025 The Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1895392725064876323)  2025-02-28T08:36Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@privateimtiaz There's just too many of them to buy off that's why self-determination is important 😬 Divide et impera"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1896340266635911524)  2025-03-02T23:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Bullshit. The USG can print $16634 million with the stroke of a button 😆 Over the past decade the federal government sold approximately [------] bitcoin for proceeds of $366 million. If the government had held the bitcoin it would be worth over $17 billion today. Thats how much it has cost American taxpayers not to have a long-term strategy. Over the past decade the federal government sold approximately [------] bitcoin for proceeds of $366 million. If the government had held the bitcoin it would be worth over $17 billion today. Thats how much it has cost American taxpayers not to have a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1897648421181211042)  2025-03-06T14:00Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"So [--] new buying pressure as the braindead bag pumpers had hoped the politicians are just rebranding the stash they already hold. Also they clearly established the path to a Bitcoin Executive Order [----] if the USG ever gets a real appetite for stacking sats 👌 In case this isn't clear the secret "budget neutral" ingredient to the SBR that "will not cost tax payers a dime" is ✨stealing✨ https://t.co/jRnbaKvdWD In case this isn't clear the secret "budget neutral" ingredient to the SBR that "will not cost tax payers a dime" is ✨stealing✨ https://t.co/jRnbaKvdWD"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1897913444084465782)  2025-03-07T07:33Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@BikesandBitcoin @ocean_mining Specifically what Ocean fixes: * Wyatt would have still been able to construct his own block templates with his own node and feed them to his miners. * Wyatt would've earned [--] payments in the last month proportional to his .5 Eh/s (1/2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898450207047659869)  2025-03-08T19:06Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BikesandBitcoin @ocean_mining You are correct in that he wouldn't have personally contributed to the security of the network since he didn't find a block. **But he would be able to pay the $250k bill and keep mining**. And with .5 Eh/s he'd eventually find quite a few blocks for the pool. (2/2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898450610480976035)  2025-03-08T19:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Cole_Walmsley This is what dropping capital gains taxes and/or KYC/AML regulations would look like. Rebranding their existing stash of seized coins not so much"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898456946224603170)  2025-03-08T19:33Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@PromenadeCastle Are these Bitaxes Not sure the auto-translate made a good job this time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898697598178930824)  2025-03-09T11:29Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@DAX_Skywalker @GrassFedBitcoin Yay I got Type 2"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898804347766456489)  2025-03-09T18:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"For all the recent doom posting this is 100% true. But we can revisit once the "digital Fort Knox" is hacked by North Korea to the tune of $100 billion and the US administration releases his own hard-forking "America First" Bitcoin Core client that claws back the funds 😬 @Pledditor Thankfully Bitcoin did not merge with the state. @Pledditor Thankfully Bitcoin did not merge with the state"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898820487851184462)  2025-03-09T19:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"When that happens hopefully most bitcoiners will know which client to run and the following paragraph will still be valid for decades to come:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1898821369858556239)  2025-03-09T19:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nic__carter American nationalist bitcoiners please. The world is bigger than the US though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1899951193507434554)  2025-03-12T22:30Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"So a lot of bitcoiners learned nothing from the @100trillionUSD scam. Sad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901020852721791075)  2025-03-15T21:21Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@ColbyNoe It ain't much but it's honest work 🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901370472563875962)  2025-03-16T20:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Bitcoinapolis55 @ColbyNoe @BitronicsStore @ocean_mining Me too. That's why all my hashrate (2.4 Th/s lol) goes to @ocean_mining and I build my own block templates with the full node sitting next room"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901376985839915224)  2025-03-16T20:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GrassFedBitcoin @skot9000 I vouch for the guy too. He's a very talented tinkerer that lives in my area and has given a couple talks at @BcnBitcoinOnly. He open sourced the project way before he thought about selling NerdMiners and these unscrupulous marketers got ahead of him with the domain name"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901535485513683061)  2025-03-17T07:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@GrassFedBitcoin @skot9000 @bcnbitcoinonly @BitMaker_ Indeed :) Especially since (last I heard) they haven't even contributed anything back to him. They essentially ignored the open source project and took over the brand and the product to sell it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901538340618338437)  2025-03-17T07:37Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@cguida6 Seems like I misremembered this detail. Apparently the BDB lock limit even changed from node to node💀 https://bitcoindevphilosophy.com/#march2013split https://bitcoindevphilosophy.com/#march2013split"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901704851869851908)  2025-03-17T18:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Princey21M @lacrosse_al @LynAldenContact @PeterSchiff Who wrote that Keynes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901726567404892555)  2025-03-17T20:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@parman_the @cguida6 Well then the question becomes: if you have been supporting all the tinkering and fucking around until now (you do it implicitly if you run a Taproot full node enforcing all current consensus rules) then when did you change your mind and why"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901928777078149232)  2025-03-18T09:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@cguida6 @LukeDashjr Yes block [------] hardforked the network (an Eligius block to boot 😄) https://bips.xyz/50#resolution https://bips.xyz/50#resolution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901935123987087725)  2025-03-18T09:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@cguida6 @LukeDashjr Even that one was a soft fork though it involved a long reorg. But [--] weeks earlier there was an actual hardfork to fix an "anyone can spend" catastrophic bug. Idk why this incident didn't enter the collective consciousness it was much worse. https://rosenbaum.se/btcphil/#cve-2010-5141 https://rosenbaum.se/btcphil/#cve-2010-5141"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901943212400377866)  2025-03-18T10:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@MrHodl @cguida6 @LukeDashjr Not really. In March nothing really happened when all was said and done but we hardforked for real next August"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901984904029573298)  2025-03-18T13:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Running Core Lightning with fren peers and no sqlite3 backup yolo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1902139618683973890)  2025-03-18T23:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@1914ad You probably need to trim some fat from your follows list"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1903098621001609524)  2025-03-21T14:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChiHodl @AVG_84 @BitcoinPierre @MartyBent "Government embracing Bitcoin" means dropping capital gains tax and rolling back AML/KYC regulations. None of that has happened nor is on the table. SBR is noise. The USG could hold Bitcoin and EO6102 it at the same time. These are not mutually exclusive as gold illustrated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1903593663566856304)  2025-03-22T23:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ChiHodl @AVG_84 @BitcoinPierre @MartyBent Technically it's also the first step towards EO6102 🤷♂ Like SBR legal tender law isn't needed at all. Governments just need to get out of the way and not make using Bitcoin arbitrarily more expensive (capital gains tax) and dangerous (AML/KYC regulations) than it is by itself"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1903728769229013382)  2025-03-23T08:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Dimi_h So take the [--] BTC and get another job 🗿"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1903752246048731150)  2025-03-23T10:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MrHodl Then again your clearnet IP address could be from Antarctica paid with bitcoin 🫥"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904224694963757294)  2025-03-24T17:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ColbyNoe @TronMonGone It's his longer streak so far though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904649405212610882)  2025-03-25T21:39Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BITCOINALLCAPS @LukeDashjr I hear you but the reality is that most people are not technically proficient and need a lot of hand-holding. If all node runners verified each Knots/Core release with PGP built bitcoind from source and ran it on a headless Linux computer there'd be a grand total of [---] nodes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904656554722550131)  2025-03-25T22:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BITCOINALLCAPS @LukeDashjr Still maybe I wouldn't put people selling Bitcoin nodes in the same category as shitcoin peddlers and other scam artists. Also I think people buying off-the-shelf nodes are aware to some extent that they're noobs making some tradeoffs and not really doing The Right Thing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904660319483347181)  2025-03-25T22:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@privateimtiaz You can't possibly know all the Bitcoin accounts out there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904661315320238373)  2025-03-25T22:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@AriZonanHODL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904903709127037169)  2025-03-26T14:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BitcoinKnots It occurs to me that maybe this meme needs a bit of context 🤔 The first reference is to the Pull Request to Bitcoin Core that Floppy Disk Guy (aka @14400000000000bytes) opened in early [----] so that the inscription spam could be relayed more effectively: https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27079 https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/27079"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904983862180262100)  2025-03-26T19:48Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BitcoinKnots The second one is a reference to the Release Notes from the next release of Bitcoin Core spotted by @leo_haf. https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Notes-draft https://github.com/bitcoin-core/bitcoin-devwiki/wiki/29.0-Release-Notes-draft"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904984127247438030)  2025-03-26T19:49Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Shireh0dl Lebanese man attempting to rescue his hyperinflated savings from the bank"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1904991305307926777)  2025-03-26T20:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BitcoinErrorLog @MagicalTux 🙏"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1905187694424039595)  2025-03-27T09:18Z [----] followers, [--] engagements


"@nakadai_mon @Owll_D Maybe we'd have to ask him. Just pointing out that the thing he's reacting to in this clip is nothing remotely like the Ghibli images everyone has been posting recently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1905684658194710595)  2025-03-28T18:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@ColbyNoe @ocean_mining"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1906413066910065022)  2025-03-30T18:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@boomer_btc @btcanon24 Thank YOU for your Proof of Work sir 🫡"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1906451503595897329)  2025-03-30T21:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@econoalchemist idk where you get that from. The DATUM protocol doesn't require showing the full block template to the pool the only reason they currently do is because their software is still in beta. It's literally the first issue ever opened in the repo. (1/2) https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/issues/1 https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/issues/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1906710045896647141)  2025-03-31T14:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@econoalchemist The only thing they really need to check is that the coinbase TX in the block template is not cheating the rest of the pool members. This could be achieved by sharing with the pool just the block header coinbase tx and a Merkle proof of inclusion. (2/2)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1906710816436396124)  2025-03-31T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@checksum0 @justh0dl @econoalchemist @LukeDashjr What block policies do you mean Allowing each individual miner to build their block templates with their own node"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1907088685541306406)  2025-04-01T15:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@checksum0 @justh0dl @econoalchemist @LukeDashjr DATUM is still in beta the desired endgame is that the pool doesn't even see the templates. Also there is no "default template" when mining with Stratum v1. There are [--] different endpoints to choose from including vanilla Bitcoin Core. https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/issues/1 https://github.com/OCEAN-xyz/datum_gateway/issues/1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1907115943395827968)  2025-04-01T17:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@econoalchemist A 2-year long DDoS spam attack killed off a lot of the momentum. It'll take some time to get back to where we were in [----]. https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1875378485881197025 The Bitcoin network finalized more than $19 trillion worth of BTC transactions in [----] decisively proving that bitcoin is both a store-of-value and a medium-of-exchange. https://t.co/NqPI8Db1We https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1875378485881197025 The Bitcoin network finalized more than $19 trillion worth of BTC transactions in [----] decisively proving that bitcoin is both a store-of-value and a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1907373491898245400)  2025-04-02T10:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@0xB10C Trick question If @ocean_mining had 90% of market share and 90% of its hashrate mined with DATUM it'd be way more comfortable than I am today"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1907500215155741083)  2025-04-02T18:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@enricmm85 @HoppeQuotes @saifedean I fully agree that reading is a waste of time until you've taken of all that Now I can move on to forcing you to read the Bitcoin Standard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1907824589322801402)  2025-04-03T15:56Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@GhostOfPashka You have to admit it's a baller ad though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1909707914904059975)  2025-04-08T20:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GhostOfPashka There are so many Bitcoin txs moving round amounts of USD that you can statistically figure out the USD price of Bitcoin just by looking at the blockchain. This guy wrote the code for that and how he's streaming the "live onchain price" to Youtube directly from his own node"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1909998326683935020)  2025-04-09T15:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@privateimtiaz You're right in the sense that the oracle problem has not been solved. What the code does is basically: "I've been told this squiggly line in the histograph is made of $10 txs if that's so then based on the amount of sats they're moving then the fiat price is X""  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1910011564922384746)  2025-04-09T16:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"A website that tracks any txs involving publicly known addresses from ETFs and automatically reconciles their daily statements with their onchain balances. Does that exist I've seen a lot of anti-rugpull development work around ecash mints but [--] around actual custodians"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1910073253655093506)  2025-04-09T20:52Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@BikesandBitcoin @truthavatar777 @LukeDashjr"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1910648813204676745)  2025-04-11T10:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@lnbc10m These machines are eventually liquidated at firesale prices until someone can plug them in profitably again. Like bitcoin sometimes ASICs have to find a better home"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1911755878228783233)  2025-04-14T12:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_kami_gawa @SuperTestnet I don't see how ecash could be the bedrock of a decentralized exchange because an ecash mint is an even more centralized custodian than Robosats 🧐"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1912063362994761785)  2025-04-15T08:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_kami_gawa @SuperTestnet (Having said that if I could make my stacks with ecash I probably would)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1912064018539331739)  2025-04-15T08:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@jonatack Spam does that. In [----] the Bitcoin network settled 30% more value than [----] and [----] combined. [----] yet to be seen but for now the organic momentum that had been building up up to [----] has been truncated"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1912106063102439682)  2025-04-15T11:29Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@privateimtiaz In October last I heard"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1912450936347279592)  2025-04-16T10:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@allenf32 @david_seroy @RyanTheGentry @tierotiero @LynAldenContact @callebtc My brain hurts 😅 All I see is that if a mint issues liabilities (ecash notes) denominated in USD but holds bitcoin reserves it is exposed to massive currency risk. Idk what Taproot Assets are I supposed the answer lies there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1912517212834873523)  2025-04-16T14:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@D_plus__plus Kinda scary but also very cool. Do you know of any demo code or writeup that goes into the details on how to do it I maintain a Bitcoin library that already implements BIP-32 I'd like to write a unit test that shows how to "go backwards" up the unhardened child hierarchy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1914032334191698270)  2025-04-20T19:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@chad_agn Maybe if you didn't tweet from a North Korean IP that would help"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1914331945363804443)  2025-04-21T14:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"This is the only aspect I find interesting about ecash: it would allow people to earn sats very privately and from there go down to less private but more sovereign layers (LN onchain). Still sucks that it's custodial. And if it works well people will not cash out their bills People have been asking how to bootstrap enough capital for a Lightning channel. What if you don't have any Bitcoin to begin with 1) Try the ZEUS alpha 2) Get a Cashu Lightning address 3) Accumulate sats 4) When you have enough for self-custody youll be prompted to upgrade People have been asking how to bootstrap enough"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1914799932978159758)  2025-04-22T21:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@evankaloudis @MrHodl You should tell people that ecash mints are way more private than regular custodian services. Though I'm sure that eventually ecashnalysis will be invented plus there will be no shortage of honeypot mints"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1914801469137494445)  2025-04-22T22:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@w_s_bitcoin @cguida6 @SuperTestnet You mean all these users who often get suddenly locked out of their Coinbase account and can't even contact support lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1915835148349702252)  2025-04-25T18:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@btc_remnant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1915837222533636572)  2025-04-25T18:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@gregzaj1 The answer is "rugpulled again""  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1915837690525724920)  2025-04-25T18:37Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MrHodl @LePlebRoyale @GrassFedBitcoin Not 100% true new nodes need online archival full nodes to perform the Initial Block Download. More or less the equivalent of being a file seeder in BitTorrent. Of course if your particular node is pruned you're absolutely right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1916221623184855275)  2025-04-26T20:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@itme_brain @aurelian_btc @lopp Technically it's already happening. MoE capacity has shrinked to nothing even with ATH and full blocks. Way way below [----] heights. https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1875378485881197025 The Bitcoin network finalized more than $19 trillion worth of BTC transactions in [----] decisively proving that bitcoin is both a store-of-value and a medium-of-exchange. https://t.co/NqPI8Db1We https://x.com/BitcoinPierre/status/1875378485881197025 The Bitcoin network finalized more than $19 trillion worth of BTC transactions in [----] decisively proving that bitcoin is both a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1916979103904788573)  2025-04-28T22:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@PakoVM @darosior @LukeDashjr If that was true the PR that has Antoine so worked up would not be controversial at all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917340896422494316)  2025-04-29T22:11Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@privateimtiaz Read again. Pruned from the "UTXO database" not the blocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917355305614065740)  2025-04-29T23:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"GM ☕ Do you agree that perfectly consensus-valid Bitcoin transactions that would crash your node are spam Is it censorship to drop them from mempools by default Please discuss"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917514459771265309)  2025-04-30T09:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Pledditor These people are so used to bare-faced lying that I wouldn't for a moment put it past him to just make it up. It takes [--] effort to write this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917686817190539493)  2025-04-30T21:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"It's free real estate. Every so often someone gets upset their arguments in a Bitcoin Core pull request fail to convince contributors so they take their grievance to social media. Then many non-contributors pile into the PR under the nave assumption that Core is a democracy governed by votes. 😜 Every so often someone gets upset their arguments in a Bitcoin Core pull request fail to convince contributors so they take their grievance to social media. Then many non-contributors pile into the PR under the nave assumption that Core is a democracy governed by votes. 😜"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917687304589656067)  2025-04-30T21:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@leo_haf @citrea_xyz all that seed funding spent on expert consensus building cannot go to waste eh"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917933270982906071)  2025-05-01T13:24Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@LukeDashjr @leo_haf @KOBTCSYSTEM @BitcoinKnots @umbrel @start9labs You mean Linux right jk jk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1917933726308123117)  2025-05-01T13:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@_DavidSFreeman @darosior Well I disagree with these giga brains so what. Though in this context the only thing I was saying is that if the anti-spam game is unwinnable then the anti-DoS game is unwinnable too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918020643469119629)  2025-05-01T19:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"There's a lot of FUD and misconceptions flying around @LukeDashjr's @BitcoinKnots node software so it's the perfect subject for a thread 🧵 If you're thinking about dumping Bitcoin Core but you're on the fence because you know nothing about Knots this thread is for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1918338539177013508)  2025-05-02T16:15Z [----] followers, 49.1K engagements


"@sr_gi @LukeDashjr Single-merger* not contributor. Yes. I'm not entirely happy with this situation but I'm happier trusting Knots than Core at this point so"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918364985845047692)  2025-05-02T18:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JuanSGalt @niftynei @base58btc @rodarmor Granted inscriptions don't burn sats in fake outputs. But the UTXO set grew from [--] to 4GB from [----] to [----] and from 4GB to 12GB from [----] to today. Then half the UTXOs in the UTXO set are [----] sats or less. Hmmm"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918390153816506574)  2025-05-02T19:40Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@JuanSGalt @niftynei @base58btc @rodarmor Sounds like an exploit that should have been responsibly disclosed and unstandardized before it blew up if you ask me. On the topic of fake bare multisig outputs that you brought up earlier they're still standard today in Core too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918392005178126427)  2025-05-02T19:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@PakoVM @JuanSGalt @niftynei @base58btc @rodarmor Because they move very little value and piss it away in fees. Like a $5 spend is paying $4.99 in fees. If fiat price increases and blocks are full yet Bitcoin's transaction volume plummets that's something to worry about. The normal behavior is 2021-2022"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918393752407695562)  2025-05-02T19:54Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@268thousandsats @LukeDashjr @BitcoinKnots Knots set up its default limit for op_returns years before Whirlpool existed. Years later Samourai devs designed Whirlpool unaware that Knots existed. It's a nothingburger because Knots is highly configurable. If you want to relay larger op_returns than [--] bytes it's trivial"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918646916780302351)  2025-05-03T12:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"As far as I know never before has something like Bitcoin "happened" in human history. So it's not inevitable in fact we'll be in Fuck Around and Find Out territory all our lives for as long as it doesn't break. Unfortunately Bitcoin can still fail. We need to stop acting as if it's not a possibility. Bitcoin still relies on humans for *stuff* and humans are corruptible to incentives. Bitcoiners need to be ever-vigilant and actually willing to act when it's necessary to do so. Unfortunately Bitcoin can still fail. We need to stop acting as if it's not a possibility. Bitcoin still relies on"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918716872985350408)  2025-05-03T17:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"This meme seems relevant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918717354978021809)  2025-05-03T17:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@peterktodd @SuperTestnet @XmrChad @daanyaalss @Ragnarok12388 @RoninMiner Ok I think I entirely misunderstood your proposal. I thought it was a tax on unspent utxos but this sounds like an additional flat fee on the regular mining fee of spent utxos. Where can I read your proposal So I don't need to nag you here with tons of questions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918779286841917885)  2025-05-03T21:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Richard_Lee_BA @peterktodd @SuperTestnet @XmrChad @daanyaalss @Ragnarok12388 @RoninMiner No absolutely and irrevocably. https://x.com/LukeDashjr/status/1696592402834661795 @ErguySharp46852 @adam3us @Truthcoin Checkpoint a block they reject https://x.com/LukeDashjr/status/1696592402834661795 @ErguySharp46852 @adam3us @Truthcoin Checkpoint a block they reject"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918785821102031148)  2025-05-03T21:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@BetruetoitUK @kretchino @LukeDashjr @Bitcoinfinity @BitcoinKnots Confirmed by an Ocean employee. https://x.com/leo_haf/status/1918332409616990570 @oomahq @tulkooo2 @BitcoinKnots @ocean_mining Its safe to just switch we have even tested core [----] to knots [----] https://x.com/leo_haf/status/1918332409616990570 @oomahq @tulkooo2 @BitcoinKnots @ocean_mining Its safe to just switch we have even tested core [----] to knots 28.1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918793838501429626)  2025-05-03T22:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@MrHodl @knutsvanholm @ocean_mining The home mining scene has also changed dramatically in the last couple years since @skot9000 reverse engineered BitMain's firmware and made it open source. This little mf has [--] s21 ASICs and burns 50W about half the power of an incandescent lightbulb. https://x.com/oomahq/status/1901376985839915224 @Bitcoinapolis55 @ColbyNoe @BitronicsStore @ocean_mining Me too. That's why all my hashrate (2.4 Th/s lol) goes to @ocean_mining and I build my own block templates with the full node sitting next room. https://t.co/o74fZfhyxj"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1918994818627256365)  2025-05-04T11:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GhostOfPashka @Shireh0dl @mattkratter Crucially if you treat BTC as money you want to maximize the sats you send and minimize the fee. Conversely spammers maximize the fee and minimize the sats they send (they create dust). Impossible to outbid as a monetary user"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919016359821787152)  2025-05-04T13:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Revert everything up to and including BIP-16 (2011) and just let @LukeDashjr cook 🗿"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919333511493787759)  2025-05-05T10:09Z [---] followers, [----] engagements


"@LukeDashjr In all seriousness I voted to not fuck with current consensus rules. All this inane talk of forks is just the Nth attempt from spammers at divide and conquer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919334184507613375)  2025-05-05T10:11Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@LeoMorozovskii @LukeDashjr @OneSirMeow @w_s_bitcoin @MrHodl @GrassFedBitcoin @DrMemebrain @LePlebRoyale They don't need what downloading the full blockchain That's mandatory for all nodes to sync to the tip. What is optional is storing the raw blocks on disk and serving them to other nodes boostrapping afterwards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919344226141126686)  2025-05-05T10:51Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"2020 vs [----]. Run a Bitcoin node"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1919368452571054221)  2025-05-05T12:27Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@FreeSpeechBTC21 @sliv3r__ @GregTonoski @bcnbitcoinonly @BitcoinKnots Nah I don't think so. You risk ending up disconnected from the wider p2p network. Bitcoin nodes shouldn't refuse to peer with other nodes just by looking at their User-Agent. The ban is a tool meant for badly behaved peers or with unreliable connections"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919369612195516541)  2025-05-05T12:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@nvk @DudeJLebowski And they don't even allow more contributors into the project. Ditto the Lua Scripting language. Based 🗿"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919380402298339383)  2025-05-05T13:15Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@cguida6 @AnuragSaikia @citrea_xyz @benthecarman @OP_RETURN_Bot This is new information to me. Is Core seriously removing the [--] byte mempool policy for the sake of a company that needs to get a non-std transaction mined a few times a year"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919480527096066519)  2025-05-05T19:53Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@GhostOfPashka @GrassFedBitcoin I agree with the sentiment but this commie slogan is cursed"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919501334459412868)  2025-05-05T21:15Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GhostOfPashka @GrassFedBitcoin Ok I respect that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919502777622868095)  2025-05-05T21:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@benthecarman @citrea_xyz @OP_RETURN_Bot How much Do you use Slipstream"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919655814500909326)  2025-05-06T07:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@K_Bitcoiner The point of mempool policy (colloquially known as "spam filters") is not to prevent something from happening altogether. That's what consensus rules do. The point is to rate-limit undesired behavior. You may find this thread interesting. https://x.com/oomahq/status/1916793928025596338 Seems like an ol' thread to debunk this nonsense is in order 🧵 Between blocks [------] (01 Jan 2025) and [------] (today) there's [--] non-std OP_RETURN txs out of [--] million or 0.004246903% of the total. That's a 99.995753097% success rate for the [--] byte limit spam filter in 2025."  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919723816093155495)  2025-05-06T11:59Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@sr_gi Likewise. You can prune old blocks completely (what we're both saying) but you can't prune *just* the OP_RETURNs from the blockchain (what I see a lot of people parroting around)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1919830391348662733)  2025-05-06T19:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@tulkooo2 @btc_privacy Yeah me too. Under normal circumstances I read the release notes new releases and only update if there is something in there that I find compelling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920046790906085822)  2025-05-07T09:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@francispouliot_ If every miner controlled a smaller share of the mined blocks OOB would be harder & more unreliable. On totally unrelated news DATUM already proved at exahash scale that it's technically possible to solomine with your node and still share rewards with a pool of miners"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920135009995763907)  2025-05-07T15:13Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@francispouliot_ The community consensus that should come out of this debate: Stratum v1 considered harmful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920136179296407988)  2025-05-07T15:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sliv3r__ @CanexBTC Nah only [--] instances of "you clown". Compare:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920205061621162239)  2025-05-07T19:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sliv3r__ @CanexBTC I mean these lists have no bottom 😅"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920205212683280420)  2025-05-07T19:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@sliv3r__ @CanexBTC But these are high-effort bespoke responses"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920205492825063477)  2025-05-07T19:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@1914ad @niftynei @lopp Lol Lisa's face 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920223311994237274)  2025-05-07T21:04Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@btc_privacy @1914ad @niftynei @lopp C'mon man"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920393348331835401)  2025-05-08T08:20Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@cguida6 @privateimtiaz @leo_haf Lol. I started reading this sentence expecting a joke and suddenly it wasn't one 😆"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1920475629641703738)  2025-05-08T13:47Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Last time Bitcoin was at 100k USD it was over 98k EUR. Now it's exactly at 90k EUR"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1920521199622238525)  2025-05-08T16:48Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@Shireh0dl I still keep your animated NFT obviously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921361775515042298)  2025-05-11T00:28Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@privateimtiaz Manifest it into reality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921362893309681806)  2025-05-11T00:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Cipherhoodlum @NicolasDorier @byronhambly Idk the default 300MB mempools have been overwhelmed for [--] years and nodes still worked. I don't see anything wrong with a monetary tx paying say [--] sats of fees. It's just the tail end of the fee market that's discouraged from existing with the [--] s/vB mempool policy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921578625918251362)  2025-05-11T14:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GShodl @_Checkmatey_ The other way around. Pool operator centralization makes out-of-band services possible and efficient. Developers want mempool consistency so if miners misbehave they'd rather take the easy path of removing mempool policies than campaigning for decentralizing the mining nodes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921692096311742614)  2025-05-11T22:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@GShodl @_Checkmatey_ I think it is a problem because they're building mempool centralization on top of pool operator centralization. It's better for bitcoin to have decentralized mining nodes and accept that mempool consistency is not perfect (but that makes devs life's more difficult)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921697712958828905)  2025-05-11T22:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FreeRangeBTC @GShodl @_Checkmatey_ You're right it doesn't make mining decentralized. This is just "accepting" that mining is centralized and accommodating the code around this fact. The opposite approach is what @ocean_mining is doing: promoting the emergence of new mining nodes with DATUM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921702279708610723)  2025-05-11T23:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@szarka To be revisited in June after all the craziness. My guess is that the occurrence of [--] byte OP_RETURNs will have exploded in May in absolute terms while still making less than 0.1% of the total"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921916830668435858)  2025-05-12T13:14Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@moonbootspleb @GrassFedBitcoin Uncapping the default value is essentially the same as removing the option. It's useless afterwards"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1921979932256710955)  2025-05-12T17:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@TheGuySwann May I suggest this followup piece tl;dr pro and anti-filters camps agree that OOB txs are bad. Anti filters want to be pragmatic and just remove them. Pro filters want to strike at the root of the problem: mining pool centralization. https://europeanbitcoiners.com/lopp_return-wars-the-problem-is-deeper-than-spam-filters-stratum-v1-needs-to-die/ https://europeanbitcoiners.com/lopp_return-wars-the-problem-is-deeper-than-spam-filters-stratum-v1-needs-to-die/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922006871038124415)  2025-05-12T19:12Z [---] followers, 12.4K engagements


"@privateimtiaz mf I lost [--] IQ points reading this shid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922048747279654950)  2025-05-12T21:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@0xB10C Would be cool to know what percentage of P2TR outputs hold below [----] sats"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922276061263397105)  2025-05-13T13:01Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@skot9000 @GrassFedBitcoin @Public_Pool_BTC Excuse my ignorance what are infinity pools"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922388062971027813)  2025-05-13T20:26Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@da_winter @butera_simone I take DATUM very seriously. Knots is important because if we only had Core DATUM would be kinda moot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922558291843911872)  2025-05-14T07:43Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Horizon_btc @privateimtiaz I'm guessing the datum_gateway's only requisite are some methods of the RPC interface including getblocktemplate. Could be. @privateimtiaz try it with a BitAxe. For science"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922576994513879179)  2025-05-14T08:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@Horizon_btc @privateimtiaz And if it does not work you can just write an Ordisrespector-style patch for a recent Knots version that discards every incoming unconfirmed transaction with at least one output that looks like "OP_0 [--] bytes" "OP_0 [--] bytes" or "OP_1 [--] bytes" 🤣"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922577816337498624)  2025-05-14T09:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"Observation: As a long-time pool operator @LukeDashjr has more real world experience on Bitcoin mining than all the other Core developers combined. Pay attention to DATUM"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1922598738771558523)  2025-05-14T10:23Z [----] followers, [----] engagements


"@LukeDashjr Even gigabrains like Greg Maxwell make all kinds of errors and clumsy arguments when they wade out of their area of expertise (applied cryptography in his case) to talk about Bitcoin mining: https://damus.io/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqqsgsc3lfarzl6sjrnrewxxl88fme3ztewhrtf4tp5u56l7uhuxzdmc7qvfj3 https://damus.io/nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpaegm8nwwpyrtrnsjv84efjtp9mhpkvfenvxs487vx8d48y28qgxqqsgsc3lfarzl6sjrnrewxxl88fme3ztewhrtf4tp5u56l7uhuxzdmc7qvfj3"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922602494183534994)  2025-05-14T10:38Z [---] followers, [---] engagements


"@Leurico8 Notice that I said to pay attention to DATUM not really Knots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922621290671739336)  2025-05-14T11:53Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@FractalEncrypt @glozow Damn this deserves an even larger ratio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922621990508151024)  2025-05-14T11:56Z [---] followers, [--] engagements


"@coinjoined @knutsvanholm @GrassFedBitcoin @Swan @BtcInfinityShow @lukedewolf"  
[X Link](https://x.com/oomahq/status/1922622183093772590)  2025-05-14T11:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements

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