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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

(it’s called Tonal btw)

Oh no this will make Luke-Jr so mad.

Context, Luke-Jr is an early Bitcoin adopter, literal Florida man, and all-around kook. His wikipedia user page used to be a work of art with an ordered list of his obsessions[1], starting with sedevacantism and including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal. Here's a long page on the old Bitcoin wiki: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Tonal_Bitcoin. Sadly it never caught on, people don't want to say "bong bitcoin" apparently.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=User:Luke-Jr&oldid=593942679

[–] self@awful.systems 9 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I’m vaguely remembering this and not sure where to look for confirmation, but wasn’t Luke-Jr the bitcoin maintainer who put his foot down and blocked a design change that would’ve made bitcoin much more efficient because it would have made it inconvenient for him to run a full node on a slow Florida residential cable internet connection?

people don’t want to say “bong bitcoin” apparently.

that’s weird, I’ve known so many guys whose whole personality is bong bitcoin

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he also got verry angy when bitcoin ordinals were a thing for like two months

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

he used to distribute a Bitcoin client that censored addresses belonging to an early gambling service, people were mad

he's fractally weird

[–] skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 2 months ago

the lack of self-awareness is definitely something

[–] gerikson@awful.systems 6 points 2 months ago

Yes he led the charge against the "bitcoin maxis" who wanted to increase the actual block size to contain more info. (this later became Bitcoin Cash). We had to endure stuff like "UASF" (user activated soft fork) for complicated reasons no-one can explain now.

[–] V0ldek@awful.systems 7 points 2 months ago

including Tonal, an early attempt to promote hexadecimal

I am so happy I've seen this, it's so bad.

I will now forever pronounce $2^{16}$ as bong.