Created my very first Rust GUI app, and it took far too long! Haha! It's a simple Tic-Tac-Toe game built on Rust+Slint. Also, #askNostr, why is it 213.2MB!?! It should be something like 750kB!

If Nostr was around during the block size wars, would the bitcoin software have changed direction? I learned recently that, while I was still new to bitcoin, the big blockers were kicked from the forums. No wonder I didn't really header much about it. Censorship hurt the community and caused a split on the network. Unity is deeply important, and that was a bad call by the Core devs and forum mods. I think it's also bad that those two sets had such overlap.

Still listening to #HijackingBitcoin. I got into Bitcoin in 2016, right as the block size war was coming to a head, but I heard almost nothing about it. I heard about BCH, but I always thought it was a spinoff that was more separate. I'm learning a lot about the real history of the development. I'm still not a big block Bitcoiner, but I do agree that the core devs did unnecessarily prevent the block size increases that were actually intended. We still need secondary layers, too, because the use and the verifiability need some level of decentralization. Who else has read or listened to the book?