Including considerations of hard‑forking, the “Knots vs. Core” debate increasingly resembles a game of chicken. As the block‑size wars taught us, the party that either loses its composure or dramatically overestimates its own strength—and therefore forks first—ends up on the losing side.

I guess that the usage of Lombok's @SneakyThrows annotation in a code base indicates that Java developers do not appreciate checked exceptions anymore or never did.

Humanity should be careful not to implement an Orwellian thought crime regime with kycing everything. Privacy is a corner stone of a free society.

In the end utilitarianism will also immolate its strongest advocates.

I missed a citation of Revelation 13:16-18 in "The Gospel According To Bitcoin" by Daniel Sherman and J.M. Bush in the sections talking about CBDC and Covid. Are these not examples of the "mark" in our time?

"You shall not steal". Printing money including taking a loan is stealing because you dilute the value of others holding fiat money. You can read all about this in "The Gospel According To Bitcoin" by Daniel Sherman and J.M. Bush

Hodling does not imply that one should refrain from using bitcoin as a means of payment. Instead, it means not to sell it in order to have more fiat aka realizing some gains. If you do not use the lightning network for payments, you miss out on benefits such as lower fees, reduced surveillance, and uncensorable transactions. It is really unfortunate that, even in 2025, some keynote speakers still claim that Bitcoin payments are unimportant.

Everybody pays the fees they deserve. Instead of complaining about high fees using the Twint payment app the "swiss retail federation" could promote payments with lightning. https://www.tagesanzeiger.ch/anzeige-gegen-twint-das-muesse-sie-wissen-229818778320

Open source projects as for instance gnome, debian, f-droid etc. should maintain strict neutrality on topics unrelated to their core mission, rather than seeking favor with unrelated movements. This approach would help to ensure that they do not alienate supporters who may disagree with these unrelated issues.

"The Bitcoin Enlightenment" by Ricardo Salinas, @Pascal Hügli and Daniel Jungen delves into some aspects of monetary history that are not yet broadly covered in other Bitcoin focused books, such as the founding of the Bank of England and the inflation in Mexico. It also addresses recent developments, including the growing influence of Bitcoin on political events, and offers some forecasts where the journey may go in the future.