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Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
5000 Core listening nodes have disappeared since BIP110 - we can safely assume those were fake and only spun up to suppress the % of BIP110 nodes.
The overall amount of listening nodes running on the SHA256 network has dropped from 27,000 to 18,000 - roughly 33% of the network!
If we subtract the fake Core nodes from that it'd be a drop of roughly 17% which would mostly consist of Bitcoiners who migrated to XBT along with their nodes.
This image just represents the last three weeks.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
To the British intelligence agents reading my tweets, I want to make it absolutely clear that I do not condone sarcasm, irony or having fun on the internet.
When I was part of the team that launched AOL UK in the 90s, I warned law enforcement that within 30 years, members of the public would be using the internet to spread laughter, mock politicians, and share funny pictures.
I’m deeply disappointed that my warnings weren’t taken seriously. We’ve now reached the point where children are hurting the feelings of politician by making them look like rabbits.
This is completely unacceptable. I trust the authorities will act before someone adds floppy ears to another politician.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Embedded in this is this childish view that everyone is owed a great quality of life, and even worse, any failure to receive that is the fault, not of nature, but of the selfish failings of other men.
And this false belief is then weaponized to justify the destruction of the beautiful and the good.
It is a rapid uprising of the weak and the resentful.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
BREAKING: Volkswagen announces a European rival to Tesla’s “flying” Roadster
Some insane confirmed features:
1. Top speed limited to 110 km/h
2. Automatically reports speeding to authorities
3. Automatically turns off the AC if outside temperature is below 35°C
4. Car will not start when public transport option exists on your route
5. Built-in system reminds you how much CO₂ your trip produced
Launch expected after EU regulatory approval in 2068
It is truly completely over for Tesla
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Don't mine with this piece of shit.
Introducing:
Stratum 2 Datum converter, now on by default on stratum servers for XBT mining.
Every block found on our XBT stratum carries the same coinbase layout as a DATUM gateway. You don't need to run a gateway to mine here; run one if you want to build your own templates.
If an update is pushed by the XBT devs that changes the layout for DATUM, then we will just update our stratum 2 datum converter.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
I wrote an article about what really happened at Metaplanet, in plain English, and why so many of the influencers are quiet about it.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
This is the first time I mostly hold BTC as an investment. For the NGU.
Before, it was the biggest no-brainer far beyond that.
It was the exit. The rock solid, unfuckable-with store of value. Separation of money from state. No third parties. Sovereignty. Digital truth in the form of a lean monetary ledger.
Those qualities have, in my opinion, eroded a lot. Slow capture. More centralization. More relativizing and fiatizing of what Bitcoin is for. And there are seemingly no brakes. Just cheering when the people who still wanted Bitcoin to be money, not data storage, lost.
Nodes decide, not miners. That used to be shared ground. Now it will get you ridiculed.
I do not see the current trajectory, governance capture, or mining concentration reversing, not with the current attitude and behavior from the suits, the influencers and the social layer in general. That is why my faith in the project today is much weaker than it used to be.
I am not calling the Blake2b chain Bitcoin.
I am glad the fork happened. It is a live attempt to reassert principles a lot of us thought were settled: monetary protocol, hostile to spam, nodes enforcing rules, miners do not get to veto by selling block space for JPEGs and other non-monetary use.
Whether it works at any meaningful scale is unknown. The energy around it is real. That resonates more with me than victory laps from people who treated BIP-110 as a joke and then celebrated when centralized hashpower blocked it.
My position:
I am not selling my BTC.
I am not telling anyone else to sell.
I intend to hold both sides for now.
Nobody should be buying or selling either side of this split yet. The dust has not settled, liquidity is a joke, and rushed claim tools are how you lose funds.
I urge everyone to make their own, well researched and responsible decisions.
Most of my attention and interest now goes to the chain that still treats spam as spam, instead of inviting more of it and saying the debate is settled.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
In 1825, a rich Welsh industrialist bought an entire American town to prove that socialism could work.
He had the money, the buildings, the theory, and hundreds of eager followers waiting to move in.
Two years later, it was over. 🧵
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Daniel is not captured.
Follow him!!!!!!
Was this on anyone's Bingo card?
Another block drops on the 'BIP110' Chain.
With a NY Times Newspaper Reference!
'817 NYPost Toas.......
nypost.com/cover/august-17-2…
Wild, wild times.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
A bitcoin-backed stablecoin has been in the works for years. For example:
Alpen Labs, founded in 2022, came out of stealth mode in 2024. They intend to enable a bitcoin-backed stablecoin called Bitcoin Dollar (BTD) on the bitcoin base layer ... by exploiting Taproot/tapscript and OP_RETURN. They're on Bitcoin SigNet now with plans to launch on mainnet.
IN LATE 2025 THEY DOCUMENTED THEIR INTENTION TO USE 100KB OP_RETURN. github.com/alpenlabs/bitcoin…
I wonder if Strategy is talking with them, or perhaps thinking of doing something similar on their own.
BIP110 would have hindered this.
Also:
Wences Casares (co-founding donor of both Brink and LocalHost Research who fund Core) is an angel investor in Alpen Labs. prnewswire.com/news-releases…
John Pfeffer (the other co-founding donor of Brink) is also an angel investor in Alpen Labs. theblock.co/post/287629/bitc…
Wences Casares is also known as "Bitcoin's Patient Zero". In early 2013 at a Private Retreat/Conference at the Ritz-Carlton in Tucson, Casares presented on Bitcoin to a gathering of tech/finance leaders. Attendees included Reid Hoffman, David Marcus, Marc Andreessen, Chris Dixon, Dick Costolo (Twitter), and others.
This spawned Blockstream, Xapo Bank and Lightspark, all significant funders of Core.
Blockstream has stated their desire to softfork Simplicity onto Bitcoin to support non-bitcoin assets, what they call Grantor Tokens.
And Lightspark recently announced their Grid Global Accounts, which supports stablecoins on the base layer.
A lot of this would have been hindered by BIP110.
More info here: teapawt.net/elkrun21/status/207636…
JUST IN: BILLIONAIRE MICHAEL SAYLOR JUST SAID #BITCOIN WILL NOT BE A "MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE"
"BTC IS CAPITAL, NOT MONEY. A BTC BACKED STABLECOIN COULD BE."
"WE NEED TO CREATE A BTC BACKED STABLECOIN THAT PAYS YIELD"
"DIGITAL CURRENCIES ARE THE WINNER OF MEDIUM OF EXCHANGE"
"THERE ARE FUNDAMENTALIST BTC OGs THAT WISH THAT WASN'T THE CASE"
"99.9% OF THE WORLD'S PRICES ARE IN USD" 👀
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
We have some difficult news to share. Unfortunately, one of our shipping providers has experienced a data breach that exposed sensitive order data. This affects new customers in the US, UK, Sweden, Colombia, Brazil, Italy, and Portugal who received an order within the 90 days prior to August 8th, 2026.
The data exposed:
- Full names
- Shipping addresses
- Phone numbers
- Email addresses
The incident affects 11,742 customers with full exposure (name, email, phone number, shipping address) and 1,947 customers with partial exposure (name, city, email). The breach is limited due to Trezor’s strict 90-day data storage policy (we were also able to negotiate the same terms with fulfillment partners, who follow the same policy).
All affected customers have been contacted separately by email.
Our systems and devices remain secure, but affected customers could experience an increase in phishing attempts.
NEVER enter your wallet backup on a website or share it with anyone, and only check for updates on official Trezor channels.
We are deeply sorry to the community and those affected.
We are investigating this situation and will post updates on our blog:
trezor.io/blog/news/recent-c…
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Facts: Bitcoin is always presented by the media as "immutable" - especially regarding the 21M hard capped supply.
But once you go deep enough under the hood, you find that this is not the case, and it's actually based on consensus. 👇
Once you have centralization of the three defense mechanisms – namely, the nodes, the miners, and the developers - then you can control the narrative and force consensus via low-key UASFs , which has already been done via CORE for both the Segwit and Taproot changes to Bitcoin
I feel like Taproot, especially, is something that was put in place to serve some purpose that the Public doesn't know about yet, but is being discussed in backdoor channels on the Blockstream - and perhaps even the BlackRock - side of things.
The reason I say this is because why else would CORE protect Taproot and the OpReturn default limit change despite major pushback from 20% of the node operators and risk not only a chain split but a hard fork if they're wasn't some ulterior motive for these remaining in place ? 🧐🤨🤷🏼
Something to think about. And also why I support the KNOTS-UASF and even a hard fork - not for spite, but as a pre-emptive precaution to guard against consensus lock-out by large centralized agencies
BIP-110 failing a simple rollback of the consensus rules to limit non-monetary data on-chain was the proverbial Canary in the coal mine.
It serves as a warning that Bitcoin's rules and power structure have been subverted and changed.
Since Core never posted a URSF - it completed the power shift by giving the veto power to the Miners, whose incentive is monetary.
Because the rules are not being enforced by the miners, it proves that nodes have been demoted as the rule setters.
This is a logical reason to defect when years of lobbying efforts to the Devs fail, forcing a UASF and that also fails - it is clear that there are misaligned incentives and that the "Bitcoin Industrial Complex" is in control of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Puritan retweeted
Right. It's much safer and effective to backchannel directly with the big pools as Jonathan Bier has been bragging about doing successfully in 2017 and now also in 2026.
