2000: you can’t export PlayStation 2s, foreigners will use them to send Tomhawk missiles 2025: you can’t have larger OP_Return in Bitcoin, the holy priests of Vatican will dump their personal collections on chain Political trolls always stand in the way of meaningful progress.

The filter that ACTUALLY WORKS: 1/ sell all your bitcoin 2/ join another online cult where being loud actually makes a difference even when you’re wrong 3/ enjoy the rest of your life doing your normie shit while the nerds build censorship-resistant internet money

Heil Filters!

Let’s think of a world in which filters become the norm No user node stores any ordinal inscription, Bitcoin Core is dead, everyone runs the latest version of Knots Then jpeg enjoyers decide to pay miners directly – no mempool storage is needed anymore, the mining pool just includes the transactions in the blocks. Lesser resourceful jpeg enjoyers also hide the arbitrary data in multisigs, which Knots purity filters cannot stop. “So sneaky!”, says chairman Dashjr. “They are cheating and raping everyone’s nodes!” “I haven’t seen my kids in 3 days because of this crisis”, adds general Grassfed. “We must stop them, these jpeg are hurting my feelings!” “These memes aren’t even funny”, says lieutenant Zoccola in between munching on his gluten-free panini. Consequently, they decide to create the Knots whitelist – the ultimate virtue database. This means that, in order to prevent any kind of spam, all Bitcoin users must be personally vetted by the Knotzis. All Bitcoin users must grant access to public keys (xpubs) to the Ocean mining team, do mandatory KYC to Jack Dorsey’s über compliant on-ramps, and write public Nostr notes to praise the effectiveness of filters. If anyone steps out of line, they get sent to forced labor camps where they fix broken ASIC miners for Eligi.. I mean Ocean and produce electricity in order to retain its hashrate supremacy. Heil Filters! Whitelist power! Über hashrate! The Vatican then gives Luke Dashjr a call and asks him to replace the sitting Pope because they haven’t seen such effectiveness in punishing heretics since 1234 (which, ironically, was also Luke’s passphrase to access his wallet.dat file). General Grassfed gets promoted to god emperor status by the node-running plebs who pray to his bearded statues while performing excruciatingly painful acts of self-flagellation. And Matthew Krater becomes the modern day Plato, with a university where he is legally allowed to sodomize his students as long as he doesn’t post pictures of it on the blockchain. Ancient Greek traditions for university founders, can’t really argue against them. His mighty brainfarts get translated into 100 languages and everyone gets tattoos of his Chrome tabs. Finally, Saylor buys more bitcoin and the price goes to $666 trillion. Because why the fuck not? If the chain is useless and compliant, there has to be at least some kind of happy ending.

I miss the days when my DMs were chats, not ChatGPT Scrolling through the messages makes me feel lonely and sad 🥲

Newbs who never took the time to learn how Bitcoin works now think they’re fighting the block size war of their generation. Just fork off already so we can show you how we can still spam your purity fork with arbitrary data. Seriously, prove how well your filters work.

Right now I fucking hate all the dumb & greedy podcasters who miseducated an entire generation of bitcoiners Then inserted foolish ideology into technical conversations, taught everyone to run in the same rhetoric circles and irrationally hate the technicality savvy. Bitcoin is not what these guys are teaching. Just because some dudes speak in a language you can easily understand doesn’t mean that they’re experts and just because something aligns with your ideological biases doesn’t mean that it’s correct. Fuck all the loud permanoobs like the Bitcoin Mechanic and the Bitcoin university guy. When they spend such a long time being wrong, they get proven wrong, but they still put out content acting like they know better, it’s clear malevolence and self-interest in the name of an agenda we have yet to uncover. They are the attackers and the spammers of bullshit, not the devs who are trying to make Bitcoin more useful for builders.

Who decides what is spam and which transactions are allowed?

I’m just gonna assume that everyone who hates Bitcoin Core v30 and shills Knots is a fed It’s a simple mental model which rejects the thesis that any real person can be this stupid.

A man who’s much smarter than me once told me: “Don’t fall in love with technology” It’s meant to change & improve over time. So the longer you spend evangelizing about something being perfect, the more you’re gonna fall behind. This applies to Bitcoin too!

Went to the flea market yesterday and I picked up this Blackberry Classic (Q20) for $5 The screen is a bit broken, the back cover is scratched, but it charges and everything works so far. $30 in parts and I’ll have the ultimate texting/e-mail machine 😍

You may not like it But this was peak Bitcoin maximalism 9 years ago, before the community split during the scaling debate When everyone was working to make Bitcoin better and increase adoption Most of today’s successful alts didn’t even exist. Now you have 1000 projects.

Over the last couple of days I’ve been asking you guys what you recall about Gavin Andresen & Mike Hearn. Only one person mentioned that Gavin created multisig and P2SH. Nobody mentioned that Mike Hearn created the first SPV wallet, which Satoshi described in the whitepaper but never put into practice. Also, nobody mentioned that Mike Hearn’s LevelDB upgrade has caused an accidental hard fork in Bitcoin back in March 2013. Both Gavin and Mike did a lot of cool stuff before the community crucified them. However, it’s only the bad deeds that get remembered – and a narrative gets constructed around them to justify the excommunication. Kind of sad in hindsight, as any of today’s heroes will have his merits erased from history the moment he or she doesn’t conform with the latest version of maximalism.

Alright so Gavin was the CIA informant who legitimized the Craig Wright is Satoshi cosplay (Few mentions of any contributions he’s made to Bitcoin over the years) So let’s try this again but change the subject: Who is Mike Hearn and what did he do for Bitcoin?

Just out of curiosity: How many of you know who Gavin Andresen is? And if his name rings a bell, what do you know about him?

Hi @jack wen podcast? Let’s talk about using bitcoin as money

Bitcoin history is only 17 years old But we're really bad at keeping records & bringing up the relevant information So every wave of adopters must get misled by the loudest influencers, spend years misunderstanding Bitcoin while having no context for recent events This sucks

Bitcoin was the best outcome of the Obama presidency

Bitcoin plebs turning on Adam Back wasn't on my bingo card for 2025 The irony of the situation is that Adam's been pretty consistent in his views over the years It's the plebs who got radicalized by influencers that promote ridiculous purity tests You reap what you sow? Blockstream has taken advantage of this culture for many years, with "toxic maximalist" marketing. But now the culture is turning against the stuff that Blockstream wants to build on Bitcoin lol

I’d rather research and talk about shitcoins than treasury companies. They’re much more interesting to me 🤷🏻‍♂️