Reminder: The social contract wasn't broken by Core, it was broken in February 2024 when MARA launched Slipstream. Slipstream is a service to mine any consensus valid transaction for the right fee, bypassing normal mempool policy entirely. This contract was technically enforced by mempool filters like the 83-byte OP_RETURN limit, however Mara’s Slipstream proved that these filters were just "gentlemen's agreements" that large miners could bypass at will. Core's op return changes 20 months later weren't "enabling spam", they were acknowledging this broken contract and that the filter had already failed because you can't enforce gentlemen's agreements when miners are openly advertising they'll ignore them. These changes once again even the playing field for those wanting to get their transactions mined. It's harm reduction, plain and simple.

We are all Satoshi except Luke, Mechanic, Roger, CSW and Mike Hearn.

The data doesn't care about your feelings on "spam". It only cares about resource costs. If you want to run a node, you should be thanking the devs for op return because it’s the only reason your RAM requirements aren't 10x higher today. If you can't distinguish between disk bloat and state bloat, you aren't ready for this conversation.

People seem to forget and/or take for granted that Core is one of the most transparent software dev projects in history, especially relative to its value.

110 does literally nothing to make bitcoin more of a "money", it already is money and 110 arbitrarily restricts script, confiscates coins and risks splitting the network, no thanks.

Got news for you Carter, LN is doing just fine without your acknowledgement by pretty much every metric imaginable.

Yah almost like the rush to put in filters that could be as easily bypassed as the ones in Knots. For those paying attention at home Samson is still just a larp who is too afraid to let anyone reply to his posts except the simps that follow him.

The Quantum FUD is just that, FUD, and Mechanic and Luke are still following in Roger's and eventually faketoshi's footsteps.

If free speech is a threat to you, your soft fork probably isn't going to do well.

Bitcoin is working as intended: 1. Thwarting spam making it unsustainable for any meaningful amount of time due to fees. 2. Resisting loud non-technical internet mobs trying to change it. 3. Tick tock next block.

ZCash is just as much of a joke today as it was when it came out. No thanks.

Knots folks: I'm here to save Bitcoin from "spam" Also Knots folks: I don't know how spammers operate. I don't know what drives spam behavior. I don't know what tools they use. I don't know how their ecosystem works. I don't know a single spammer.

Soon Knots folks will finally realize that the only way to fully stop "spam" is a central authority like OFAC, but hey, they'll get there eventually right?

So even with all that paid Ocean marketing Knots still can't rise above ~20% and only has a ~2% chance of actually happening in the betting markets.

2017 - miners and large corporations don't control bitcoin 2026 - an economically irrelevant but loud-on-twitter group of users don't control bitcoin Let's see who makes this mistake next.

Are you sure about that mechanic?

Hey guys want to put your money where your mouth is on the 444 soft fork? You can find the link to the prediction market below, mechanic is blocking people like crazy over it, probably because the current odds of the SF activating is only at 6%:

Predyx | Advanced Prediction Markets with Lightning Network

Will the "Reduce Data Temporary Soft Fork" be consensus enforced on the most work Bitcoin Chain Tip by March 1st 2026?

The reference for this is Dathon Ohm

The idea was to make bitcoin censorship resistant and threat-modeled to resist government control, to make governments comply with bitcoin, not the other way around. If you want your chain to be government friendly ethereum and solana are waiting for you.

You know you have no integrity when you only let people who follow you reply to your tweets. Great job mechanic.

Once again I'm here to remind you just as I did when Roger was spreading FUD across twitter and the media, the sky is NOT falling. There are simply those that would use fear to control others for the purpose of gaining power.