Ferris Bueller

Paul Lamb has a new video out on YouTube on how to run Garbageman. A node implementation that preferentially peers with libre relay nodes but refuses to relay spam adding friction and rate-limiting to protect the chain. Check it out if you're ideologically inclined

Thank you Peter Todd, Bitcoins greatest pentester

The gold dump before the btc rip?!?!?

This new core 30 update is making me sick. I think it is inevitable that csam and other nasty thing are going to make it on the chain in plain text and my head is spinning. I'm not sure where we go from there. These are my thoughts rn: Do a ton of nodes just suddenly go offline? Does it hit the news and the price drops like a rock? Does it continue to go up anyway like during the block size wars? Will news people just not even notice anyway? Should I feel wierdly comforted by the fact that the current US administration and more importantly Blackrock is supportive of it? Will they protect us from the almost inevitable bad PR that will come? Are node runners safe? With Core be held responsible and turn into this whole legal battle? Should I try and protect myself by buying IBIT put options to hedge this possible downswing? I really don't want to be a gold bug... Yea yea stay humble, stack sat, but its hard not having these thoughts when I'm all in.