Lead maintainer @CounterpartyXCP and @KontorNetwork; natural philosophy

Joined May 2017
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We are revamping @CasaTookan. Your collectible wallet designed for Bitcoin/ @CounterpartyXCP / EVM Web3 browsing. With better EVM compatibility, wallet import, and more. What is the one feature you would like to have on Day 1 ?
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The Blocksize Wars Never Ended The Blocksize Wars were supposed to be over. They aren’t. Casey @Rodarmor and Erin Redwing @realizingerin go back to the opening shots: Satoshi’s 1 MB limit, Gavin Andresen, BIP-101, Bitcoin XT, and the increasingly messy question of Bitcoin consensus. Erin arrives at a dangerous conclusion: the big blockers may have been right. TIMESTAMPS 0:00 The Blocksize Wars by @jonathanbier 3:55 Bitcoin Prehistory: Satoshi's 1MB Block Size Limit 6:15 @gavinandresen: Satoshi's Chosen Successor 8:29 Bitcoin Foundation, Greg Maxwell's @Blockstream & the Handover to Wladimir 9:36 BIP 101: Gavin Andresen's 8MB Hard Fork Proposal 12:28 Peter Wuille's BIP 103: The Rejected Compromise 14:22 Bitcoin XT: Mike Hearn & Gavin Andresen's Hard Fork Client 16:15 Theymos Infinity Snaps r/Bitcoin 20:28 @BitPay, @Circle, @BitGo, & Other CEOs Back BIP 101 22:01 Reading Satoshi's Tea Leaves 28:25 Big Blocks vs Small Blocks: The Core Arguments 29:11 RBF vs First Seen Safe: @peterktodd's Controversy 34:08 The Highway Analogy: Fee Markets vs More Lanes 39:15 Scaling Bitcoin Montreal 2015: Gavin vs One Meg Greg 46:00 What If Big Blocks Won? 49:45 Big Blockers vs Communists: Right Diagnosis, Wrong Cure 53:30 Greg Maxwell vs Gavin Andresen: Open vs Private Discourse 1:03:55 Economic Nodes vs Miners: Who Controls Bitcoin? 1:07:50 What Is Bitcoin Consensus?
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Imagine burning 2,130 BTC in 2014 so that in 2026 the whole thing could have a $9M market cap. The oldest asset-issuance layer on Bitcoin. Proof-of-burn genesis. Rare Pepe's home. Home of the first NFTs before "NFT" existed. Market cap: less than a Miami condo. Never has so much history cost so little. 🔥🐸
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Accelerate THAT
How it started. How it’s going.
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Cooking a PSBT marketplace for Counterparty assets.
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Exciting times!
Sparked up something on Counterparty. XCP.FUN
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Replying to @EmblemVault
@EmblemVault 🤝 @CounterpartyXCP Bulk minting is going to make this much easier and way faster! BTC ⛓️ XCP📦ETH 🔐Emblem
🎁NEW COLLECTION SUPPORT: @CounterpartyXCP Wrap Rare Pepe, Fake Rares, Spells of Genesis and much more to Ethereum mainnet leveraging Emblem Wrapping Service. Connect your Horizon wallet for FULL AUTOMATION. No more manual deposits and seed phrase imports. Auto-send and sweep with a few clicks. Wrap now: emblemwrapped.com/ Track activity: emblemscan.com/
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The Horizon Market engine is now public! Same atomic swap API that powers horizon.market — trade Counterparty, Ordinals, Zeld & Kontor through one REST API. Sign locally, keys never leave your machine, no account required.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝘆 𝗗𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗼𝗿 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗿𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗦𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺 "I think the Kontor storage system is better for permanent data storage than any I've seen." Why? It's on Bitcoin. You're using Bitcoin security to enforce data availability. No network switching required. Store Ordinals art, Counterparty assets, encryption data - all without leaving Bitcoin. That's the key distinction.
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Met some of the amazing Pepe community members including @ditacrypto at NFT Lisbon today, who took the time to teach me about the amazing history of the Nakamoto card and the entire @pepe__wtf collection. Definitely got me hooked hard on the lore 💚 Quick text to @eli_schein ( the very best) and this grail now part of the collection. Special thanks to @redbeardnft for the introduction and @ImGlassCrown for the amazing tour !!!! – at Lisbon, Portugal
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This is also the chart for cryptocurrency in the age of AI. Either AI completely breaks crypto, or crypto is the only thing left standing after AI breaks everything else.
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This is actually good for Bitcoin. Base layer transparency is obviously really important. Pseudonymity + L2 anonymity seems like a far more reasonable approach today.
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𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝘁𝗮 𝗔𝘃𝗮𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆 𝗣𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗹𝗲𝗺 "IPFS is an addressing and retrieval system. People use it as a data storage system and it shouldn't be used that way. It's not reliable." Kontor solves this: Bitcoin-level reliability for data storage. As permanent as Bitcoin transactions, but scalable and affordable.
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Why metaprotocols matter - Adam explains the Kontor approach: fast, scalable, and entirely on-chain.
NEW POD: Are we giving away the store with Bitcoin L2s? Jacob sat down with Adam Krellenstein (@agkrellenstein) - Creator of @CounterpartyXCP & @kontornetwork. We discuss: • Why L2s are a mistake • Hal Finney Inventing Metaprotocols • DeFi on Bitcoin in 2014 • Bitcoin-secured storage • Scaling up vs scaling out • How Kontor Network works 📺 Watch the full 38-minute conversation now
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Latest pod with the great @agkrellenstein!
NEW POD: Are we giving away the store with Bitcoin L2s? Jacob sat down with Adam Krellenstein (@agkrellenstein) - Creator of @CounterpartyXCP & @kontornetwork. We discuss: • Why L2s are a mistake • Hal Finney Inventing Metaprotocols • DeFi on Bitcoin in 2014 • Bitcoin-secured storage • Scaling up vs scaling out • How Kontor Network works 📺 Watch the full 38-minute conversation now
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This, but for tokens… Overtime, if the blockchain a token is on still works, even if the underlying team or project behind it has ceased to exist, the tokens will still be technically trade-able. It’s like a truism, all tokens have this property to them that they inherit from the blockchain they’re issued on. I think the tokens issued on Bitcoin have the strongest chance of existing in 2050, but there are many tokens on many chains that have much lower chances. Even if the technology still exists, the majority of remaining tokens will become economically untrade-able in the future because tx fees are higher relative to the value of the tokens themselves. It makes me think about @WRabbit1111 chart for early NFTs. As supply is lost and distributed, some older tokens could take on a collectible value different from the speculative value they once had which reignites the speculative value. But the underlying blockchain needs to still exist and have meaningful non-collectible economic activity going on. And that economic activity should price out or significantly reduce issuance rate and distribution of new tokens overtime assuming tokens isn’t the sole economic activity onchain to begin with. So, I think these are the conditions that could create highly volatile prices. There will be as many niche interests as there are people still using the blockchain. - Imagine stablecoin collections with different types of USDT, USDC, USD1 - Every variation of pepe or dog coins like collecting Coca Cola bottles - Or grandpa’s first shitcoin portfolio he left to his thot daughter’s gay son Distributed, with a lot of lost supply, and an immortal automated market maker plugged in. There will be collecting. This is why I stay bullish on things like XCP (2014) and PEPECASH (2016) on Bitcoin (2009). And I like ORDI (2023) and UNCOMMON•GOODS (2024). Bitcoin has the underlying economic activity going on, is likely to keep existing, making some tokens issued on it available for collecting and speculative manias which is the basis of the global economy apparently.
1/ I have finally got to updating my #DigitalAntiquities timeline to include some more recent re-discoveries. Added 2 additional chains & cool history-making projects/assets such as: @Punycodes2011 @StephanVogler1 #JollyRoger #Umbrella @MTMSeries @EmercoinNFTs #OasisMining etc
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Replying to @CounterpartyXCP
@CounterpartyXCP updates w/ @agkrellenstein - Liquidity Pools on XCP Pairs - 10 Year Rare Pepe Anniversary @TheBitcoinConf - Named Assets that start with "A" - Website Updates xitter.cf/i/spaces/1XGygmpQgQExM…

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Servers cost money. I might bring it back. In the meantime, for anyone interested in CPU mining, check out: ZeldHash available at: zeldhash.com/ It's also tradeable on Horizon.Market
Replying to @mikeinspace
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