Nick Szabo

Computer scientist and cryptographer

Computer scientist and cryptographer known for his research in digital contracts and cryptocurrency.

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@th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 Up until Core v30 Bitcoin has never had a feature intentionally designed to host non-financial content. It only had financial features hijacked to hold non-financial content.

Mentioned on : 10/08/2025

It depends on your timeframe, i.e. how far in the future do you or your heirs want to spend the money. Over ten years there is a more than even probability that gold will 3x an MMF and that bitcoin will 10x or 100x it. Against housing, education, and health care costs over ten years, MMFs are practically guaranteed to lose substantial value.

Mentioned on : 10/21/2025

Besides which fork gets the hash rate majority, pool support, and general node support, the other big issue in a fork is which fork gets to call itself "Bitcoin" and which has to pick a different name. "Bitcoin" would tend to go to the majority fork but it might not -- it's much more a political than a protocol issue. Why forks are a bad idea unless utterly necessary.

Mentioned on : 10/21/2025

The answer at a technical level is that, unlike the operator of an archival Bitcoin node, operators of these kinds of sites can delete one kind of content while keeping the other. Under the current Core software, Bitcoin node operators have no such freedom -- deleting content destroys their financial functionality as an archival node. This makes them, and the Bitcoin network generally, quite vulnerable to illegal content attacks.

Mentioned on : 10/22/2025

@DavidBCollum Two dramamine if it's bitcoin.

Mentioned on : 10/23/2025

@WhalePanda Bitcoin is in a bear cycle masked by the debasement trade.

Mentioned on : 10/16/2025

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