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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 04:16
RT Dataracer (@Dataracer117)@Cinnabon @Suzierizzo1 STFU. Where's the part of the video where the Somali immigrant scammers abused your employee first?Play that part of the edited video clip, you clown corporate scum.Go on. Play the part where these scum Somali's ordered her around and called her poor white trash. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 04:07
RT dewmap (@separ8)The “What is spam?” debate is the exact same psychological pattern we saw in the “What is a woman?” discourse.Confusion elevated into a virtue, uncertainty marketed as intelligence, and basic definitions suddenly treated as controversial.It’s the same mechanism, just wrapped in a Bitcoin skin.Core didn’t just drift technically.They turned conceptual fog into a badge of sophistication. And they’ve managed to convince wide-eyed new developers that this fog represents some kind of higher phi ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 04:04
RT Renaud Cuny (@CunyRenaud)Critical point: Don't try to download or view these large OP_RETURNs.You have no way to know in advance what's in them: malware, illegal content, exploits.This is exactly why oversized data doesn't belong in Bitcoin blocks. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 04:03
RT Renaud Cuny (@CunyRenaud)Last night, I caught SpiderPool mining 2 consecutive blocks with identical 80.6KB OP_RETURNs.It turns out this is part of a broader pattern.Two weeks ago I showed the v30 spike.Here's what's happened since and who's involved:🧵 https://t.co/kDAWX8cLBj ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 04:00
RT Giacomo Distributed-Authoritarian Plebslop Zucco (@giacomozucco)The use of the Core commons as a group toy to vent personal beefs goes on, unrelentingly. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 03:56
RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)Why not both?Wise institutions and individuals alike are putting increasing amounts of low-dilution bitcoin in their portfolios, securing their futures, and the futures of their heirs, against the future when fiat-denominated debts, including government bonds, must, inevitably, be greatly diluted given demographics. Usually by diluting the dilutable fiat said debt is denominated in.The wisest of all will self-custody Bitcoin, the actual trust-minimized asset, as insurance against ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 03:47
Bitcoin Network Integrity - The Bitcoin network faces a battle between custody and self-custody, where individuals holding their own keys and running nodes are crucial for preserving its integrity [1] - Centralized custodial structures, exemplified by entities like BlackRock and $MSTR, concentrate Bitcoin, potentially leading to the creation of paper Bitcoin and price manipulation [1] - Self-custody offers users the ability to opt out of traditional banking systems, providing protection from confiscation, censorship, and systemic risks associated with centralized finance [2] - Individual choices regarding Bitcoin ownership impact the network's integrity, either strengthening it or enabling institutions to build paper claims on top of it [2] User Awareness - Many individuals are unaware of the implications of their choices within the Bitcoin network [3]
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 03:40
RT Gaurav Sharma (@Gaurav1105)People who try to build before understanding systems unknowingly reenact the mistakes those systems were designed to prevent. ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 03:38
RT Alex Sheremet (@automachination)For context, here is Refaat Alareer's response to Bovine Weiss's @bariweiss smears, after herself spreading nonsense about "babies baked in ovens" on October 7th.Amazingly, her tweet is still up- no shame, no retraction, no comment on the murder, while she prattles on about "truth", the importance of "institutions", etc.Recall that, at every level, pundits, government officials, & even Joe Biden himself magnified so many of these lies while accusing Palestinians of doing t ...
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Nick Szabo· 2025-12-07 03:38
RT Alex Sheremet (@automachination)PROPAGANDA KILLS: The Murder of Refaat AlareerToday is the 2nd anniversary of the Palestinian poet's murder, which opened Israel's scholasticide in Gaza.My essay explores both deadly propaganda as well as the descent of terrible poets upon his corpse:https://t.co/QgNSYBmoNn ...