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[@giacomozucco](/creator/twitter/giacomozucco)
"@stephanlivera @highstakevegas Email is different - it's not that one person letting an email thru lets it thru for everyone. Yep. That's what makes Bitcoin way more spam prone than email: a single inclusion will force literally all future users to be spammed literally forever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983226505200021961) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-28T17:37Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@simulx4 @stephanlivera @highstakevegas Bitcoin fees are not hashcash. In hashcash each message has to do PoW to be received once by one recipient. In Bitcoin one single inclusion fee will force literally all users to receive it forever and redundate it for free"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983293502256808393) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-28T22:03Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"This is a very important point by uncle @r0ckstardev. Bitcoin would likely survive CoreV30 being widely adopted and some nasty attackers eventually encoding illegal stuff into large standard op_returns. Bitcoin would likely survive Knots&al taking over Core and the current main maintainers being "fired" (and the same nasty attackers still eventually encoding illegal stuff into large non-standard op_returns anyway). Bitcoin would likely survive ossifying now and never ever getting a new non-bug-fixing soft fork forcing us to use heavily interactive L2s and leaving midwits sleepless over"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1965662903404572883) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-09-10T06:25Z 83.3K followers, 147.2K engagements


"If your definition of censorship allows you to call not using spam filters on your email box because "when you installed the email software you implicitly accepted to always receive all valid SMTP messages" censorship then it's not a very good definition Censorship is the state suppressing speech with violence"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984153044796297626) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T06:58Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"I honestly don't think it's wrong. A node is private property: I can run it with a code change that makes it Litecoin or another change that accepts a UASF or UAHF or another that get txs which Core considers non-standard in my mempool or another that gets no transactions in my mempool at all (blocksonly) or any other in between or another that change the color of my QT GUI. All of these are changes in my private property like the ones I could do in my email client. If done by many people in simultaneity the first changes I mentioned produce emergent behavior that is difficult to see in SMTP"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984181393228706158) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T08:51Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"BTW who sets the filters Users. Possibly trusting some class of developers. Which is exactly the way filters work now in Bitcoin Core. What if they get the filters wrong They change their mind and set new filters. In the meantime transactions with high demand still make it on chain with preferential peering as explained very well by many Core devs. Can the filter authority itself represent a centralisation risk Yes. Right now Core defaults are the filter authority. It can represent a centralization risk but very minor due to the weak consequences of filtering. Any movement of such authority"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1982692406001647880) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-27T06:14Z 83.3K followers, 7862 engagements


"I defend and will keep defending this guy allright on many many things: all the things I honestly think he should be defended about. Not others. Specifically I disagree that not running a consensus fork to eliminate some specific type of encoding of some specific content equals explicitly "defending" such content: - I may not run the fork simply because I don't see a relevant difference between that encoding format and others already possible and find the distinction irrelevant - I may not run the fork simply because I don't agree with easily conceding to criminal organizations like"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983087626748940462) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-28T08:25Z 83.3K followers, 2222 engagements


"@Dig_A_Hash_Kid @roryhighside @rleder @NickSzabo4 Yes all media representing (real)/NAP violations inherently involve NAP violations. Even videos of Hiroshima nuke explosion. Yes rape is definitely a NAP violation. Yes I do what I can for hash wars (not much but honest job)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983223599348449348) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-28T17:25Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"Email isn't Bitcoin because it's global consensus thus more span prone. Email as a proticol has no central relay. All content is obviously subjective but content in Email is supported while in Bitcoin it's not it's just overlaid on it. Email is not free to send: it requires a computer electricity etc. Bitcoin also isn't free but it's cheaper for spam: with the cost of a single block inclusion you force all future users to download and distribute the data forever. Bitcoin and Email are both distributed and decentralized. Bitcoin and Email both validates math not meaning (an email following"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983445061216989570) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T08:05Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"@_DavidSFreeman @byronhambly FUDing one of the most important projects for Bitcoin mining decentralization is quite a big mole hill. What is the mountain I'm not challenging Is my position about XXX anywhow unclear Do you feel XXX has widespread support and I have to focus on it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983466566135197801) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T09:30Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"I've seen X minutes as I said. This clip: Tadje explained that alleged "LN problems" incentivizing custody are actually just Bitcoin problems. Sztork ignores the point and goes on ranting about some unrelated philosophical tention between cypherpunk code and companies and mentions shitcoin company Bitpay or something as example of something. Then he repeats to Tadje.Tadje's own calculations about the blockspace needed to hypothetically onboard all users with Dryja-Poon channels only. Tadge agrees with himself of course and alluded to other solutions (some of them in production right now)."  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983469845585736069) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T09:43Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Bitcoin L1 limitations are known since James A. Donald's email in 2008. Not much new or intersting since. Scaling in trusted banks for smaller amounts with trustless settlements was the obvious Finney-style answer to that: with all its flaws it's clearly better than the alternative of delegating *all* validity to trusted miners with gargantuan blocks users can't stay in sync with (magic "SPV" was Satoshi's initial alternative to this trust assumption but it proved unfeasible it may become feasible in the future with ZK magic). Scaling with local offchain UTxO sharing with unilateral exit plus"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983505926624624909) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T12:07Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@AlevandX @MikeJarmuz @mir_btc @sbaaaam21 @robertogorini Ahahah not my most successful attempt but you can't always win :D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983568705549180949) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T16:16Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Maybe I'll watch someday how he "refuted LN". So far I'm too skeptical of the claim to even prioritize any verification. LN is basically just the acknowledgment of the following facts: 1) global consensus "blockchains" can't scale (and on top of that they are terrible for privacy instant UX MEVil/censorship/spam resistance etc.) 2) relegating a global consensus "blokchain" to a very slow/expensive last-resort settlement layer moving most of the economy to local consensus pools is the only acceptable trade-off considering X 3) local consensus pools to realize X which require less trust (ie:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983851375030157688) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-30T11:00Z 83.3K followers, 1263 engagements


"@BitcoinErrorLog @orangeparty_btc @roy_breez @Snyke @tierotiero @adam3us @paoloardoino @Truthcoin @starkness (meta-issue here: why did you put the X comments as independent comments under mine as opposed to thread them consecutively super bad reading UX)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983851704568422734) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-30T11:01Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"In XX years almost nobody will even remember Solana Ether Binance-coin Trump-coin or Hawktuah-coin just like almost nobody today remembers Peercoin Novacoin Terracoin Devcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1881085642370887997) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-01-19T21:05Z 83.3K followers, 268.5K engagements


"The very first Lugano Plan Week (officially launched last Monday) will enter its hottest phase tomorrow culminating with the 4th Lugano Plan Forum: I will now suspend my Twitter interactions until them beside maybe some random RT. If you really really want to come to tell me which node implementation I should run or how should I set my datacarriersize you can come and tell it to my face at most of these events every day until Monday 27th. After that I'll probably fall into a coma until the Bitcoin Histrico conference in El Salvador. Y'all behave. Stack sats. Avoid KYC. Run a node. Maybe grind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1979864335770951990) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-19T10:56Z 83.3K followers, 26K engagements


"@BtcFrancis @stephanlivera @moneyball But the others arent even really "networks" in most cases. Mints arks and HSM stuff are mostly alternatives to *channels*"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983531670616555706) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T13:49Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"Precisely. I understand tolerance towards the very first use case with any long-term market fit: scamming regulators with BLockcHAiN woo to give users more secondary-market freedom instead of scamming retail investors with BLockcHAiN woo to give VC insiders more money ("stablecoins"). But even there no need to waste scarce Bitcoin resources or needlessly pollute its brand"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983847904918798686) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-30T10:46Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"2025 updated version 1) NFTs especially "on Bitcoin" 2) ZEC 3) KAS 4) XRP 5) ETH 6) BSV 7) HEX 8) NYM 9) ADA 10) Trumpcoin Surprisingly Monero bros and Doge bros didn't annoy me very much in the last XX months (I guess Zcash shills took the place of the former and Trumpcoin connoisseurs of the latter)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983921844479484144) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-30T15:40Z 83.3K followers, 5730 engagements


"The real @peterktodd is happy that the whitepaper is published by Lugano newspapers :D"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984186546828820706) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T09:11Z 83.3K followers, 2719 engagements


"Teach me master 😭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984262188824166864) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T14:12Z 83.3K followers, 5254 engagements


"Ark is a centralized pool with a central coordinator just like the Phoenix implementation of Poon-Dryja channels. It's not a scam at all it has a statechain security model immediately and a Poon-Dryja-like one after the first confirmation and before the expiration. The Lightning Network is a routing/invoicing language across local contracts. Ark is another type of such a contract better than Poon-Dryja for onboarding and last-mile users"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984280462236295243) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T15:25Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"@copinmalin @sajlegreat @darosior @callebtc Bandwidth & validation didn't keep the pace with IBD and they are both likely to get worse in case of global wars and societal collapse (scenarios where Bitcoin becomes even more important)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983570642474557453) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T16:24Z 83.2K followers, XX engagements


"@ralflmuller @zndtoshi @stephanlivera Blockspace will never scale. Potential users need to learn LN. It is also better for privacy censorship resistance spam resistance MEVil reistance instant UX"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984155474472886507) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T07:08Z 83.2K followers, XX engagements


"Because the way you rip bands off is not inconsequential. With FullmempoolRBF it was done well imo: Bitcoin Core did nothing Todd built an alternative client the tolerant minority de-facto made FSS almost useless business relying on it adaptes (eg: Bitrefill) users familiarized with Core's impotence to do anything about it THEN Core quietly adapted the (still configurable) default to the new status quo. With op_return it was the opposite: in a situation with few onchain large op_returns (and low demand for them since in most cases the "inscription envelope" exploit is cheaper) a Core dev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983854799117263269) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-30T11:13Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"Phoenix is an app that exists to sell such services it is not Lightning itself. So it's Arkade. Statechain security (which in Ark unlike Spark doesn't involve any key deletion) is security against coordinator rugpull not security against reorgs. A zero-conf DP channel has no security at all for an onboarded user: the counterparty (realistically the LSP) can run away with the money. In statechains and preconf ark the counterparty can't: it has to collude with the payer. Strictly worse security. Channel batching can't onboard the same amount of users in a given tx at all. You still need one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984296132076282346) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T16:27Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"@peterktodd Are you still convinced Tierion/Chainpoint useless tokens smell like a scam even if they were sold to consenting adults"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1933405575011783100) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-06-13T06:06Z 83.2K followers, 1033 engagements


"Precisely. I'm also for block size reduction soft fork (possibly witness discount removal plus CISA but also 300k would be OK: onchain stuff is terrible for cost/time UX privacy censorship resistance MEVil etc. as much of the Bitcoin economy as possible should move offchain)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983438257317646531) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T07:38Z 83.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Sorry but I frankly consider the spam debate more interesting than the last tired remnants of onchain maximalism in 2025. And I say this as somebody very tired about the spam debate. I which I shared your enthusiasm with the fact that two person with LN derangement syndrome are still invited to speak at conferences but I just can't bring myself to find that so relevant: it's mostly due to past influence (Sztork with truthcoin blog Carvalho with blocksize war role)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983460151597109670) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T09:05Z 83.3K followers, XXX engagements


"@stephanlivera @moneyball Everything seems to connect through LN but there will be other systems too I think it's useful to define those system as other from dryja-poon channels but not from the LN itself. They are all part of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983468015120502934) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T09:36Z 83.2K followers, XXX engagements


"@zer0_dt_ @callebtc Too bad for them then since we haven't small blocks anymore. :("  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983544554465660965) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T14:40Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"@ndeet @Dennis06277978 @simulx4 @stephanlivera @highstakevegas Freenet is a decentralized storage protocol. Pretty cool for censorship resistance but implementation is a fat/heavy java thing and there's no incentive layer. Zeronet was an experiment to match it with Bitcoin but all onchain. We can do better"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983569108902760702) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-29T16:18Z 83.2K followers, XXX engagements


"Nah. Bitcoiners used to say we dont need altcoins. Just don't scam people with ponzi schemes. If you really have to scam people with ponzi schemes just use mysql. If you really have to use Bitcoin's brand for a proximity scam on top of your ponzi scheme do it in a way that minimizes negative effects on Bitcoin in terms of fungibility scalability MEVil etc. (ie: RGB/Tapass as opposed to retardinals). Now they say we dont need altcoins. Just don't scam people with ponzi schemes. If you really have to scam people with ponzi schemes just use mysql. If you really have to use Bitcoin's brand for a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1983847084357804521) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-30T10:42Z 83.3K followers, 13.3K engagements


"Channels in wallets that actually kinda work for end users like Phoenix are indeed centrally coordinated: hub&spoke model with the LSP. LSPs are indeed opt-in services so are Ark. You you are reliant on both to use the system (if Acinq disappears you can't use Phoenix) and you can abandon both unilateral. Same thing in this regard. Ark is not a scam nor a "fake" L2: it's as real as a DryjaPoon channel but has some pros and some cons. PROS: - unlike with DP it can onboard instantly a user with statechain security (a new DP channel has zero security until confirmation) - unlike with DP a single"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984287115488686533) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T15:51Z 83.3K followers, 1757 engagements


"Pre-conf just scammer language for zero-conf Fair enough I guess. Let's call them both zero-conf and analize the differences: 1) Ark zero-conf can't be trivially undone by the payer without collusion with the LSP in direct channels or by the LSP in Phoenix-like hub&spoke models without collusion with the payer (with money going back to the payer). DryjaPoon zero-conf can be trivially undone by the payer alone in direct channels or by the LSP alone in Phoenix-like hub&spoke models (with money going to LSP) 2) Ark zero-conf will all get confirmed in a tiny 1input-1-output tx sharing the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984306102175928518) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T17:06Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements


"Centralization is efficient. Until it's not. That's why Bitcoin&P2P"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1980625828791873936) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-21T13:22Z 83.3K followers, 57.1K engagements


"In Ark they're the same entity in the case of LN No already explained. Only if its a permanent roach motel for coins this very argument undermines the equal excitably argument No idea what you are saying. One input one output always. Also has to assume the amount is more than dust to be trustless. which it wouldn't be else they'd just have a real Lightning channel at sub-sat fees. and that the receiver is online since Ark doesn't solve interactivity. Correct both are Lightning problem tha Ark doesn't fix. It just solves and mitigates other problems"  
[X Link](https://x.com/giacomozucco/status/1984315082491281447) [@giacomozucco](/creator/x/giacomozucco) 2025-10-31T17:42Z 83.3K followers, XX engagements