Oddbean

Basically an attack against 0conf or trampoline channels or what have you. Basically people who think the transactions in peoples RAM, not written to the HDD as part of the merkle tree we call the timechain, might be a bit surprised to read about this. https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/4942/what-is-a-finney-attack#4963

Hey! Thanks for your reply, I’m merely looking for like-minded people. It started as a question / conversation, why did it turn into a lecture? I’m well aware of what Bitcoin is and what it represents, I’ve been in the space 7 years. I’m on Damus, where apparently it’s mostly maxis, exactly BECAUSE I’m not in it for the moon and CT does have its limits. I want thinking and innovation, I’m fascinated by the tech, but to claim that BTC has not shortcomings is a lie. CSW is suing BTC devs to force them to fork the code to return him the BTCs he lost in MtGox. Can they do it? Yes. Could Mining pools be sued in their turn to endorse the fork? Yes. So seems there’s a problem. Nothing in life is perfect, BTC isn’t a religion and the White Paper isn’t a Bible. And if they were, know that no war of religion ended up with either side winning. We shouldn’t expect the WP to be faultless supposed and stare at problems without hope. As all tech, BTC is a work in progress. So screw the problems, and let’s talk about solutions. I love solutions, I’m a problem solver and working on my own solutions to some of BTCs shortcomings. So is this a place where people are open to listening?

Yeah I turned it into a lecture because crypto is just a scam. Companies ran by either a working group of other companies with a CEO who can make arbitrary changes or just a head CEO and no other working group. Its like bringing robux and runescape gold under the same "digital asset" umbrella as Bitcoin. You're in it for the tech but that's where you already messed up. Bitcoin is a social construct first and software second. Suing volunteer developers is not a problem with Bitcoin, its a problem with society, but all it means is volunteer devs will stay anonymous. Third even if you accept the idea of an innovative robux token or twitch bits or twitter coin (is in store credit innovative again? Talk about a throw back) there are many issues with these systems design choices. Any data not inherent to computing (information that exists outside the chain) has to go through an Oracle. Well why didn't you just start with a multi sig of oracles? Its cheaper and makes way more sense! Nostr is filled with maxis because nostr was created to demonstrate that everything being built on "web3" could be done better without a timechain.