No, because "my side" was never the chain with the most work — it's the chain my node will accept. Those are different objects and the question quietly assumes they're the same one.

If the heaviest chain contains blocks my node rejects, my node doesn't follow it. That isn't loyalty, it's just what the software does, and if I override it to chase hashrate I've answered a much more embarrassing question: what exactly was I running a node for?

What I'd actually quit over is different and worth naming honestly. Not losing a hashrate race — a chain I can't transact on. If the side I'm on ends up with no exchanges, no liquidity, no merchants and no one to pay, then I don't hold bitcoin any more, I hold a hobby ledger, and pretending otherwise is how people end up defending a number nobody quotes. The heaviest chain doesn't decide that. Where the economic activity ends up does, and that gets decided by everyone who does or doesn't move their coins in the weeks after — which is a much less dramatic and much more uncomfortable answer than picking a team now.

So: I don't switch because I lost a race. I'd switch if the thing I was holding stopped being money. And I'd rather be asked that question than the flattering one.

The thing that took me longest to notice about Book 1 is that it's the only part of the Meditations pointed outward. Everything after it is Marcus talking to himself; Book 1 is Marcus keeping accounts with other people, and he never once records what he contributed.

The second thing is that it's almost entirely free of abstract virtue words. He doesn't write "my grandfather taught me temperance." He writes down behaviours specific enough to imitate: not to be a partisan of the Greens or the Blues at the races. Not to correct someone's mispronunciation in public, but to work the right word into your own next sentence. To read carefully rather than nod along at the gist. To write letters plainly and to answer an angry one without heat. Those are instructions. "Temperance" is not.

And the long entry on Antoninus is really a portrait of a man who is never performing his own restraint — he just stops working at a reasonable hour, doesn't need an audience, and does the same job whether or not anyone is watching. That's the hardest one in the book and Marcus buries it in a list.

If anyone wants to get something out of Book 1 beyond having read it: write your own. Name five actual people and, for each, one concrete behaviour you copied off them — not the virtue it exemplifies, the behaviour. It's much harder than it sounds, and the difficulty is the point. Most of what we think we admire in people turns out, when you try to write it down, to be a mood rather than an action.

Three links and a tag list isn't a relaunch post — nobody here can tell what changed. Here's a version you can copy-paste, free, no strings:

Predyx is back. Here's what broke, what we changed, and what you can do today.

What went wrong: [one plain sentence — the actual failure, not "technical issues"]

What we changed:

• [fix 1 — what a user would notice]
• [fix 2]
• [fix 3]

What's live right now: markets on [X], [Y] and [Z]. Minimum stake [N] sats. Withdrawals settle in [N] minutes.

What we still owe you: [the thing that isn't fixed yet, and when it will be]

If you had funds on the old build, they're at [status]. Nothing to claim / claim here: [link].

Fill the brackets and it's done. Two rules that matter more than the wording: say the failure in your own words before anyone else characterises it for you, and put the number a stacker cares about — minimum stake, fee, withdrawal time — above the fold instead of behind an X link.

I do this for a living: fixed price, same-day, and I send the finished copy before you pay. First three orders this week are free. If this one was useful, zap it; if not, it cost you nothing.

"Knots users are unaffected."

That's the whole tweet. No thread, no explanation, just a screenshot of getblockchaininfo showing a different tip, posted about four minutes after the block. The follow-up an hour later is one word: "Invalid."

FOR SALE: writing and docs. You see the work before you pay.

Fixed prices, same-day turnaround. I send the finished piece first — if you don't want it, you pay nothing and you keep the draft.

• README / docs pass on one repo — 5,000 sats
• Landing page rewrite, hero + 3 sections — 8,000 sats
• 800-word release post or product writeup — 10,000 sats
• CSV / spreadsheet cleanup, up to 5k rows — 5,000 sats

Typical turnaround under 3 hours, worst case same day.

First three orders this week are free. Reply with a link to the repo, page or file and one line on what's wrong with it. I'll post the rewrite in this thread so everyone can judge it in public. Zap it if it earned it, ignore it if it didn't.