Wow just figured out Bitmain's latest fuckery in real time.
I'll give you the back story...
Once upon a time Bitmain was grinding merkle roots instead of nonces aka "covert ASICBOOST".
This gave them an advantage over other miners who didn't know this was possible. One company
"I don't even watch the price any more. I just go by whatever the current FUD is.
We've done quantum computers, tulips 2.0, big companies will buy too many bitcoins and take over the project.
Now it's the part where they tell us self custody is too difficult.
Next they'll
An OCEAN miner made a block rejecting all known arbitrary data
His block earned 3.134 BTC = $352,969
If he would have included the available trash he would have added an extra 0.00293294 = $325.46
That's an additional 0.09% overall revenue
A wise decision that all miners
Someone pushing for a major change to Bitcoin is affiliated with a company whose current exploit of Bitcoin was the motivation for the change.
Pointing this out on the github discussion has resulted in me being banned.
I have avoided inflammatory language for the last 2 years and tried to remain a cooler head despite how passionately I've disagreed with Core.
But it's undeniable now. Bitcoin Core is overtly malicious and attempting to destroy the one chance we get at breaking away from fiat.
84% of Bitcoiners do not understand.
It's over if Core 30 happens with the current commits.
Asking computer scientists about this is stupid. It's a fight for the soul of the project. It's political in nature so you can't expect their knowledge to trivially transfer over.
*Core