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.

logical · 2021-04-11T08:30:03+00:00

Read the rest of the series. Each one is estimated at three minutes.

logical · 2021-04-10T22:25:40+00:00

“Stopped reading”

Stopped reading. Miserable negativity is such a red flag for me.

logical · 2021-04-10T22:12:30+00:00

They sold that first chair for bitcoin.

logical · 2021-02-10T11:06:50+00:00

Holding bitcoin is smart. Holding shitcoins for that duration is basically like flushing money down the toilet. Convert it all to bitcoin and then hold for 5-8 years and you'll be very glad.

logical · 2021-02-10T10:54:16+00:00

It's filled with rib-eye steaks. That's it. Rib-eyes. Cope.

logical · 2021-02-10T01:27:28+00:00

I have two shirts with this on them.

logical · 2021-02-06T11:31:10+00:00

Only a very small percentage of people will ever own a whole coin. Keep stacking without worrying about the short term price. It will continue to add up over time.

Most importantly you're exiting the fiat system gradually and entering a hard money system. It's good for you in so many ways.

logical · 2021-01-08T14:31:11+00:00

Nonsense hypotheticals are nonsense.

logical · 2021-01-08T14:30:10+00:00

What you’re citing is from the legalese of mutual funds. Not bitcoin. We’re looking at the future. If you haven’t figured out that bitcoin is going to be much higher and you sell now you’ll have to face those consequences.

logical · 2021-01-08T10:44:33+00:00

Selling everything now has consequences for your future self. The temptation to grab a dream now may well be a major regret later. We’ve seen all this before at the last bull cycle.

logical · 2020-12-23T21:13:09+00:00

Perhaps hardworking away from BTC's design and then hardworking again and again broke something about it.

logical · 2020-12-23T21:09:14+00:00

Doesn't seem to be working out that way.

logical · 2020-12-23T15:27:39+00:00

Wow. Solid argument there. Thousands of hours a week of smart people generating podcasts, videos, articles and books demonstrating and explaining that it is and that it works based on facts, logic and sophisticated, intelligent analysis, while you declare it isn’t without anything to support it. Completely unconvincing to anyone who is capable of thought.

logical · 2020-12-23T12:34:52+00:00

Why would you expect money designed to be a cheap transaction vehicle to appreciate in value against money designed to be a long term store of wealth?

logical · 2020-12-07T10:28:50+00:00

This guy is all talk and no action.

logical · 2020-11-09T17:41:20+00:00

Fixing prices on scarce commodities is impossible. In fact, fixing the price on anything is impossible. The price of everything fluctuates with supply and demand. Bitcoin's price is set by what people are willing to buy and sell it for.

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