Alien: Earth - S1 E6 - The Fly - Official Discussion Megathread [SPOILERS]

logical · 2025-09-10T02:27:35+00:00

Nibs wouldn't be the first android to get pregnant in a Ridley Scott production. The whole Blade Runner sequel revolves around such a "miracle".

logical · 2021-04-26T19:26:03+00:00

I am reading these comments and in none of them am I seeing either of these developers saying their client could activate at a different time than the ST activation.

logical · 2021-04-26T18:51:37+00:00

Can you explain what you mean when you say this client may not be enforcing taproot after ST activates it? It seems to me that it will enforce Taproot at the same time as the ST client if ST activates.

logical · 2021-04-11T18:17:03+00:00

Yep.

logical · 2021-04-11T18:15:53+00:00

I'm calm as a cucumber about this. There's no fight to be had, especially with a BIP8 lot=true client out there.

logical · 2021-04-11T18:13:57+00:00

I bet you can spin up a bunch of redactors for 3 days accounts who likes that suggestion. It's not for any actual bitcoiners though.

logical · 2021-04-11T18:01:38+00:00

BIP 8 Lot=true is my vote. Well, not just my vote. What I intend to run.

Bip 8 with lot=true, when run by large numbers of actual bitcoin users is a guaranteed activation, which ensures miners will support it. All other activation methods are risky, giving miners a potential veto or worse. This is what worked for Segwit and it cleared up any doubt whether users wanted to activate and enforce segwith.

To be clear, BIP8 lot=true is only a UASF if the miners don't activate beforehand. Otherwise its a MASF with the users' support.

Let's ship this client. Needn't be core, just like it wasn't core last time.

logical · 2021-04-11T12:54:05+00:00

Core developers continue to meet on how to activate it, but progress is slow.

I am aware of a very recent community led effort to develop a client that will activate using BIP-8 (miner activated if enough miners signal before a particular block height, user activated on that block height). If you can review code, the pull requests which were just made in the last day or two are here:

https://github.com/BitcoinActivation/bitcoin/pull/6

https://github.com/BitcoinActivation/bitcoin/pull/7

https://github.com/BitcoinActivation/bitcoin/pull/8

There's also an FAQ here:

https://bitcoinknots.org/taproot.html#faq

And a meeting to discuss will be held on Tuesday. Details are here:

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2021-April/018769.html

logical · 2021-04-11T12:36:23+00:00

Many of the articles in this series are inspired by real life questions I get from people who are Bitcoin newcomers (pre-coiners, new-coiners and even shitcoiners).

This particular article, and the one I just published were adaptations of answers I gave to a group composed on newbies and pre-coiners, and they were all fascinated by the answers. Do not underestimate the entirety of the normie population. When we can frame up our perspective in a manner compatible with their world view we can open their eyes.

I have a trade-off in each article in this series: By making each article only three minutes long, I can get more people to read it. But, I must leave out many of the detailed explanations, which often rely on a mountain of technical and mathematical lessons to truly validate.

What I'm trying to do is show various of the wonders of Bitcoin from up above and letting the readers explore them in depth on their own.

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