Neal

The main point of my advocacy is showing people that the money isn’t broken. the title of that book has sent people down the wrong path in terms of advocacy. macro is noise. ignores the essence of money. majoring in the minors describes when u need prescription economics is gay if you don’t understand the ethics it derives from

I’m not numb, as in there is a feeling there that is being snuffed out. i am happy to be free, to be outside of fiat. on a bitcoin standard, im always better off. either my savings power is ripping or my purchasing power. thats the best thing about being on a btc standard. subsume the. volatility. make it yours. you can’t do that if you think of btc as an investment. that’s still using a fiat dollar denominator.

I could not agree more with you. That’s the whole bitcoin game: serving one’s self interest. I asked for your counsel because I saw that you were advocating for people not to run knots, not to run BIP110, so you are already in the persuasion game, you are already trying to convince others. Just being real man, it is a little on the nose to hear you say "I'm not going to try and convince you" after I just got done reading your entire blog post trying to convince me. I am a moral philosopher. that is literally my profession. I do nothing but study and write about “what ought one do?” There is nothing wrong with persuading others through rational dialog. I am interested in the principles behind your logic and actions because I know I get a lot of things wrong, so I am constantly revalidating my thought process, asking what am I missing? The best way I have found to deal with my blindspots is to steelman every possible position I am aware of, and then pit them against each other. Of all the contentious issues I've used this method for, this one is the most lopsided, no pun intended. I am about to spin up my new node. I was running core v28 on an old laptop and never upgraded it, but that just seems like non-participation now because we signal our self interest with our actions. Like bitcoin is going left or right, there is no pause, tick tock next block. So help me steelman the case for increasing the amount of arbitrary data per transaction. I cannot make a good affirmative case for why I should run the latest version of core, why I should reject BIP110. I guess this was my final hail mary heave to make sure I'm not making a mistake in serving my interests as a bitcoiner.

yeah, you correctly articulated our misalignment. which i have always aspired to be able to do with my friends: to pinpoint an exact premise we go different ways with. i, like nostr:nprofile1qqsvgd5v2yh8pcm9trapv7t8e4eleqag4yr75w9na45rtr7tm74smfsppemhxue69uhkummn9ekx7mp0qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7zefp8q pointed out, think there is a circularity of reason which contradicts itself in thinking truth is a byproduct of an empirical instantiation. But i’m compelled by the Thomistic arguments that act has primacy to potency, form to matter, the immaterial to the material. if i were not, then i would probably agree with you 🤣 🤜🤛

by you logic, every change to bitcoins protocol rules were impossible, because “less than 50% of the node runners” were using the software at some point 🤣 incentives are colliding, that’s how bitcoin arbitrates contention. the dust must settle before anyone can say “what consensus has formed”