'It seems to me that the weak point in these bypass-the-government digicash schemes is the conversion between paper cash and digital cash. That looks like the choke point where the government can still keep control.' - Hal Finney Source:

Re: Re: re: re: digital cash

'Fundamentally, I believe we will have the kind of society that most people want. If we want freedom and privacy, we must persuade others that these are worth having. There are no shortcuts. Withdrawing into technology is like pulling the blankets over your head. It feels good for a while, until reality catches up.' - Hal Finney Source:

POLI: Politics vs Technology

While having a conversation about libertarianism in favour of or against, the following passage will be very relevant (Excerpt from Chapter 13 of Rothbard's 'Ethics of Liberty'): 'In the first place, it should be clear that the proportionate principle is a maximum, rather than a mandatory, punishment for the criminal. In the libertarian society, there are, as we have said, only two parties to a dispute or action at law: the victim, or plaintiff, and the alleged criminal, or defendant. It is the plaintiff that presses charges in the courts against the wrongdoer. In a libertarian world, there would be no crimes against an ill-defined “society,” and therefore no such person as a “district attorney” who decides on a charge and then presses those charges against an alleged criminal. The proportionality rule tells us how much punishment a plaintiff may exact from a convicted wrongdoer, and no more; it imposes the maximum limit on punishment that may be inflicted before the punisher himself becomes a criminal aggressor.'

Knots is Luke Dashjr's fork you can run if you'd like heavier filters in addition to the one that core has

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Bitcoin Knots

Enhanced Bitcoin node and wallet software. Bitcoin Knots has 8 repositories available. Follow their code on GitHub.

Libre Relay is Peter Todd's fork if you'd like to avoid the filters that already exist in Bitcoin core

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GitHub - petertodd/bitcoin: Bitcoin integration/staging tree

Bitcoin integration/staging tree. Contribute to petertodd/bitcoin development by creating an account on GitHub.

The PR that is causing all the heated discussion:

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Remove arbitrary limits on OP_Return (datacarrier) outputs by petertodd · Pull Request #32359 · bitcoin/bitcoin

As per recent bitcoindev mailing list discussion. Also removes the code to enforce those limits, including the -datacarrier and -datacarriersize co...

Mailing list discussion that preceded the PR: https://groups.google.com/g/bitcoindev/c/d6ZO7gXGYbQ

Praxeology is the best thing I've discovered down the Bitcoin rabbithole GM

Mises' contributions are way more significant than I thought View quoted note →

Geyser is testing out an optional fiat donation feature which requires KYC for that feature alone. Someone posted screenshots of it implying that they require KYC for everyone now. Now they're responding to every disappointed reply to that screenshot clarifying things. PR is quite difficult.