The below is an off-site archive of all tweets posted by @lopp ever

May 8th, 2023

realBitcoinDog Thank you @lopp for your “Who Controls Core” article, and @TheGuySwann for reading on @BitcoinAudible whil..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…bC

via Twitter for iPhone (retweeted on 10:08 PM, May 8th, 2023 via Twitter for Android)

@brucefenton Classic clash of Bitcoin Maximalism and Bitcoin Puritanism

via Twitter Web App in reply to brucefenton

paulg A huge policy mistake in one graph. pic.twitter.com/JQbtDa0cql

via Twitter Web App (retweeted on 7:16 PM, May 8th, 2023 via Twitter Web App)

@rohmeo_de It certainly applies to Bitcoin and the various subcommunities within the space.

via Twitter Web App

The great thing about the internet & social media is it allows you to find your communities.

The dark side of the..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…be

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lopp Bitcoiners who managed to HODL through multiple market cycles: pic.twitter.com/77Ppmt8vvD

via Twitter for Android (retweeted on 4:04 PM, May 8th, 2023 via Hypefury)

@ErikVoorhees $25k can’t even get a whole bitcoin any more.

UBI should be 1 BTC per citizen per year.

via Twitter for Android in reply to ErikVoorhees

There are billions of buildings out there with outdated heating equipment that doesn’t even mine bitcoin.

We’re so early.

via Twitter for Android

Making predictions about future block space fee rates is even dumber than making predictions about the exchange rat..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…af

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@gladstein @MuunWallet Yeah, so weird to frame it as “receiving lightning payments.”

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@MuunWallet @gladstein Um, it sounds like you’re not actually using lightning?

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@AFCBTC4LYFE @elonmusk I care.

Those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.

via Twitter Web App in reply to AFCBTC4LYFE

@__modeerf__ @elonmusk @halfin This is precisely why his wife reactivated his account.

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@elonmusk Respect the dead, though.

The unintended consequence of naive purging will be to delete important historical content.

via Twitter Web App in reply to elonmusk

@Harrythehorse8 @woonomic It can and it won’t. You’re quoting a big blocker BSV account; they’d love to ruin Bitcoin.

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@robustus except when you get out-competed in the block space market by dick pics amirite

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@MatiGreenspan Of course it’s fine. This is how Bitcoin protects itself against blockchain bloat. The most valuable..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…sw

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The blockchain is dead.

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@ajtowns @woonomic Don’t think I have that delta metric. All of the validation metrics I track show very little cha..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…rr

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@ajtowns @woonomic Who still uses single core machines? Even raspberry pis come with 4 cores these days.

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@woonomic I think it’s safe to say we don’t have to worry about that.

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@ajtowns @woonomic Choose your metric; I see an uptick in memory and cpu but it’s not struggling by any means. statoshi.info/d/000000005/sy…

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@woonomic How’s it bad for nodes and decentralization? My nodes are doing fine.

via Twitter for Android in reply to woonomic

@CoinDesk @Ripple @SECGov @bgarlinghouse @iamsandali A small price to pay for those who have printed tens of billions.

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@wsheeep @Arthur_van_Pelt @CalvinAyre Yeah this was months later in 2018. I was way too busy dealing with BitGo inf… https://t.co/l1tcsjJ2wM

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@wsheeep @Arthur_van_Pelt @CalvinAyre No, IIRC it was above 0.3 for at least several weeks. It was 5 years ago thou… https://t.co/iZUtFcxQKj

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@wsheeep @Arthur_van_Pelt @CalvinAyre Yes, I held mine to extract maximum pain and value. Started selling when it w… https://t.co/1fTr50wVDr

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@Arthur_van_Pelt Sorry, I sold all of mine years ago around $200. Thanks for the exit liquidity, @CalvinAyre!

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@nic__carter @BitMEXResearch It’s hard to determine a sufficient level of security when you don’t know the attacker’s budget.

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@Xentagz Agreed, which is why I don’t describe these transactions as spam.

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GM. Normally Bitcoin’s mempool is quite empty after weekends, but not so today.

Here you can compare the number of..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…yc

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@Spartanze4o Good question; I’m seeing similar with my default mempool around 250 MB.

Mempool is likely running no..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…GU

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@ChrisMartl @saylor Ah, so the risk that the software can change and degrade / fail?

I’ve always considered it to..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…w8

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Are you a Bitcoin node operator who is overwhelmed by the 170+ configuration options offered by Bitcoin Core? Bookm..twitter.com/i/web/status/1…V9

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