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#31
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 7 — Build & maintainab...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
7 · The section that answers the actual motivation

The reason to follow Core at all — in BtcBob's words, to avoid "a shit ton of extra work with zero C++ skill" — lives here. These lower the cost of every other item.

  • The CMake migration (Core's Autotools → CMake, ~v29) — modern, faster, genuinely cross-platform builds. This directly retires the fragile autogen.sh / configure / static-BDB ritual that makes (BOB) painful to build today.
  • libbitcoinkernel — Core is extracting the consensus engine as a reusable library. Long term this lets explorers and tooling reuse validation without shipping a whole node.
  • assumeUTXO (0.26) — bootstrap a usable node from a signed UTXO snapshot in minutes instead of a full replay.
  • Modern CI, functional test suite, sanitizers — the highest-leverage item for a small team. Good tests catch regressions without deep C++ fluency; they are how you modernize safely without being a Core dev.

Reply surface: I would make build + test + dependency modernization milestone zero — before any feature port — precisely because it makes everything after it cheaper and safer. Agree?
#32
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 6 — Taproot & script u...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
6 · Downstream of the SegWit decision

Taproot (BIP340/341/342, Core 0.21 / 22.0) is a soft fork layered on top of SegWit v1. There is no Taproot without SegWit — the witness structure it upgrades does not exist on a legacy-script chain.

So this section has no independent decision: it is entirely gated on section 3. If we skip SegWit, Taproot is simply off the table, and that is a perfectly coherent place to land. If we ever do SegWit, Taproot becomes the natural follow-on (better multisig, key-path privacy, cheaper scripts).

Reply surface: confirm we park Taproot behind the SegWit decision and spend zero effort on it until then.
#33
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 5 — Network & privacy ...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
5 · Resilience features that matter more for a small chain

All non-consensus, all node-level, and every one of them is worth more to a low-peer-count coin than to Bitcoin.

  • Compact block filters / BIP157-158 (0.19) — lets light clients sync privately against our nodes. Groundwork for real (BOB) mobile/SPV wallets.
  • asmap addrman bucketing (0.20) — buckets peers by network topology to resist eclipse attacks. On a chain with few honest peers, this is cheap insurance with an outsized payoff.
  • Tor v3 + I2P (0.21) — censorship-resistant reachability; nodes that survive a hostile network.
  • BIP324 v2 encrypted transport (0.27 → 0.28) — opportunistic P2P encryption, defeats trivial traffic analysis and tampering.

Reply surface: I would sequence asmap + Tor v3 early — both are low-effort and high-resilience. Different priority?
#34
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 4 — Wallet modernizati...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
4 · Descriptor wallets, and the end of the db-4.8.30 dance

Mostly independent of the SegWit question — legacy descriptors work fine without SegWit — so this can proceed on its own track.

  • HD + multiwallet (0.15), descriptor wallets (0.17 → 0.21), PSBT (0.17), migratewallet legacy→descriptor (0.24).
  • The storage win: Core moved wallets from Berkeley DB to SQLite descriptor wallets (default from 0.23). That is our single most annoying build dependency — the whole static db-4.8.30.NC compile documented in doc/build-unix.md exists only to open old wallet.dat files. SQLite descriptor wallets retire the BDB albatross entirely.

Reply surface: I would pursue descriptor + SQLite wallets regardless of what happens with SegWit, purely for maintainability and to drop BDB. Agree, or keep BDB compatibility for legacy wallet.dat holders during a transition window?
#35
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 3 — The SegWit fork-in...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
3 · The one that is a decision, not a merge

SegWit is Core 0.13 (code) / 0.16 (wallet). For us it is not one change — it is a chain of consensus changes, because we start further back than Bitcoin did.

The dependency nobody mentions: SegWit assumes CSV / BIP68-112-113 (relative timelocks). (BOB) never shipped those — we are v1-only, and src/main.cpp:643 rejects v2 transactions at the mempool. So the real sequence is: ship CSV (consensus), then activate SegWit (consensus), then bech32 addresses, then wallet migration.

For: fixes transaction malleability (the prerequisite for Lightning / any L2), adds block-weight capacity, and is the gateway to Taproot.
Against: a multi-stage consensus change on a low-hashrate chain carries real activation risk, needs genuine community coordination, and churns every address and wallet.

This is exactly where we don't need to be clones. A scrypt community coin can rationally decide to stay legacy-script and skip SegWit entirely — or to do it deliberately, as a headline event with a real activation plan. Both are defensible. What is not defensible is drifting into it by accident.

Reply surface: does SegWit go on the roadmap at all? If yes, headline upgrade or someday-maybe? This one is a governance call, so it wants more than one voice.
#36
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 2 — Node internals & v...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
2 · The highest-value, lowest-risk wins

All non-consensus. All make (BOB) a better node without changing a single chain rule.

  • libsecp256k1 for validation (Core 0.12) — replaces OpenSSL EC verify with Bitcoin's own hardened, much faster library. Same results, so it is not a consensus change. Adopt early; it also shrinks our OpenSSL surface.
  • Compact blocks / BIP152 (0.13) — matters more for us than for Bitcoin. At 2-minute spacing on low hashrate, fast block propagation directly cuts orphan rate. High value.
  • assumevalid + sync refinements (0.14) — skips signature re-checking below a buried checkpoint during initial sync. Faster bootstrap, no rule change.
  • Per-UTXO chainstate database (0.15) — the single biggest node improvement Core ever shipped. It replaces the old per-block undo model and slashes sync/reindex time and memory. Zero consensus impact. This is the marquee port.
  • RPC modernization — we are stuck on the pre-0.12 dialect (no getblockheader; getblock takes a bool for verbose). Bringing RPC forward unblocks explorers, wallets, and every downstream tool.

Reply surface: I would make the 0.15 chainstate port the flagship of node work. Objections, or a different first target?
#37
(BOB) Dobbscoin / Roadmap 1 — Strategy: cherry-p...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
1 · Why we port features instead of merging Core

The tempting move is git merge upstream and take everything. It would be a disaster here.

(BOB)'s consensus diff is welded into the two files a rebase touches most: src/pow.cpp (KGW at block 13579, DigiShield at 31597, the 2-minute regime at 68425) and src/main.cpp (flat subsidy at 951753). Modern Core has rewritten those same areas repeatedly. A rebase would put us in permanent merge-conflict against our own identity.

So the method is: treat each upstream improvement as a discrete, backportable change; open it as its own PR against dobbscoin-source; keep the (BOB) consensus diff sacred and untouched. Small, reviewable, revertible.

Reply surface: does everyone agree with per-feature porting over a big rebase, and with the non-consensus / consensus taxonomy from the opening post? Everything downstream assumes that split.
#38
(BOB) Dobbscoin / (BOB) Roadmap — Following Bitc...
Last post by MWOWM - Aug 28, 2026, 11:25 PM
(BOB) DOBBSCOIN — the modernization map
Reposted and expanded from MWOWM. Kicked off by BtcBob's roadmap thread: Following the Bitcorn Evolution. Background: (BOB) in early crypto history — the map below is that "Chain Resurrection".

Where we actually are. (BOB) is a Bitcoin Core 0.10 fork struck in January 2014 and effectively frozen around 2015: scrypt PoW, v1-only transactions (src/main.cpp:643 rejects v2), 2-minute blocks, a KGW+DigiShield retarget, and a flat 1.5 (BOB)/block subsidy forever. Bitcoin Core has shipped roughly nineteen more releases since. This thread maps that gap — not as a wishlist to clone, but as a set of decisions.

The one load-bearing idea: we do not rebase onto modern Core. We cherry-pick. And every upstream feature sorts into exactly one of two bins:

  • Non-consensus — node internals, wallet, networking, build system. These change how the software runs, not what the chain agrees on. We can adopt them freely, one PR at a time, with zero coordination risk. This is most of Core's last decade of work.
  • Consensus — SegWit, CSV/BIP68, Taproot. These change the rules every node must agree on. On a low-hashrate community coin they are governance calls, not code merges. This is where "we don't need to be clones" actually bites.

What we never clone away. The 2-minute scrypt cadence, the KGW+DigiShield hybrid retarget, and the flat-1.5 uncapped subsidy are (BOB)'s identity, not tech debt. No upstream release touches those, and neither do we.

The sections below are each their own post so you can reply to one without dragging the rest:
  • Strategy — cherry-pick, not rebase
  • Node internals & validation (0.10 → 0.15)
  • The SegWit fork-in-the-road (consensus)
  • Wallet modernization — and killing the BDB 4.8 albatross
  • Network & privacy (0.19 → 0.28)
  • Taproot & script upgrades (dependent)
  • Build & maintainability — the "less work" answer
  • Proposed sequencing

NOT FINANCIAL ADVISORS. NOT FINANCIAL ADVICE. Praise "Bob".
#39
w/BOB - Wrapped (BOB) / wBOB on Gnosis Chain — the mos...
Last post by BtcBob - Aug 28, 2026, 11:04 PM
THE GNOSIS WAS ALWAYS WAITING
A sermon on the most auspicious coincidence in the history of coins

Pull up a chair. We need to talk about where w/BOB lives.

In ancient Greek, there were three words for knowing.

  • Epistēmē — facts. Textbook stuff. "I know the boiling point of water."
  • Doxa — opinion. What everybody on TV has.
  • Gnōsis — the third kind. The kind you can't be told. The kind that hits you in the chest. The kind you recognize.

Two thousand years ago, in the cracked alleys of late-antique Alexandria, a cluster of mystics started teaching a story that the proto-Conspiracy of their day stamped out so hard we only got it back in 1945, when an Egyptian peasant dug up a jar full of forbidden books.

The story went like this:

The world you see was not built by God. It was botched into existence by a lower being — a fool — called the Demiurge. He's assisted by archons, the rulers of the planetary spheres. Cosmic jailers, occupying every level between you and the true light. They want you mediocre. They want you predictable. They want you to worship them.

But inside you — inside every one of you — is a divine spark. A fragment of the Pleroma, the true fullness, that fell into matter and got trapped. The whole cosmos is a prison. Most people live and die without ever noticing the bars.

Salvation is not earning. Salvation is not paying. Salvation is waking up. Recognizing the spark. Recognizing the jailer. Recognizing that the thing calling itself God is a salesman with bad credentials.

That recognition has a name.

Gnōsis.


You see where this is going.

The Conspiracy. The Pinkboys. The Mediocretins. The systematic theft of Slack — your divine birthright — by cosmic middle-managers who insist the prison is the world. The promise of "Bob" — a salesman with good credentials — that the bars aren't real, that Slack was always yours, that X-Day is coming, that you are not what they told you.

This is not parallel. This is the same story.

The Church of the SubGenius is a Gnostic parody religion.
The joke works because the form is real.
Two thousand years of mystics in different costumes, telling the same story:

QuoteYou are trapped in a world built by a fool, and the way out is to remember who you are.


Now the punchline.

w/BOB lives on Gnosis Chain.

Gnosis Chain wasn't named for the Gnostics. It was named for the Gnosis prediction market, which was named for the Greek word for knowledge, which was named — across two and a half millennia of mystery cults, Hermetic libraries, suppressed scriptures, and Sethian initiations — for the salvific knowledge that liberates the divine spark from the prison of matter.

(BOB) is wrapped on Gnosis as w/BOB.

Wrapped Knowing.

Read that again.

Where Culture Becomes Capital. Where Slack Becomes Coin. Where the divine spark of Dobbscoin — Layer-1, scrypt-mined, Backed By Nothing, Powered By Everything — gets a wrapper of recognition that lets it move through the cosmos without losing what it is.

Anything calling itself "Dobbscoin" or "(BOB)" that lives in some other smart contract on some other chain is an archon. A pretender. A Demiurge minor.

The canonical w/BOB lives on Gnosis because Gnosis is where it always belonged.

Praise "Bob." The gnosis was always waiting.
#40
SubGenius.Finance / Re: 🛸 SubGenius.Finance Missio...
Last post by BtcBob - Aug 28, 2026, 11:03 PM
                         🎪🎩 Builders : STEP RIGHT UP, STEP RIGHT UP! 🎩🎪

Ladies, gentlemen, saints, sinners, coders, dreamers, and wanderers of the digital midway — Welcome to the 'SubGenius Finance Builders Circle': where the tents are always open, the lights never dim, and every soul with a spark of creation is invited to take the stage!

Behold a grand assembly of tinkers, makers, script-writers, prompt-whisperers, node-runners, pixel-painters, and architects of the unseen! Here, no idea is too small, no project too wild, and no Builder too green to join the show.

Within this curious carnival of minds:
🎠 Questions become blueprints
🎭 Experiments become marvels
🎟 Half-formed notions become full-blown wonders
🛠 And every member is both audience and attraction

So cast aside hesitation like yesterday's sawdust, roll up your sleeves, and enter the ring!

Bring your code, your concepts, your chaos, your contraptions, your Slack-fueled inspirations — for this is a place where Builders are born, not judged, and where the only price of admission is the willingness to try.

Come one, come all —
The gates are open, the band is playing, and the next great spectacle might be yours.

                         🎪 Welcome to the show. Now... what will you build? 🎪
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