Let’s support Ben & Jerry’s ice cream

That’s it then. Not only does one gorillas win against 100 men, but so does one ai beet an entire cinematographer team lol

It’s not about OP_RETURN, it’s much more… I’ve been thinking about this latest fiasco with core and spam on the network, and I have a feeling that it is an irreconcilable conflict that ironically resembles the differences we have with western liberals as a whole. Let’s paint the picture. There are ppl who do questionable things on the network, things that ultimately harm the network and harm those who use the network. But we have two different approaches 1) “We can’t stop it so let them just pay the fees of their stupidness, they will eventually stop, it’s an open market, and who are you to even decide what is good or bad, let the market decide” 2) “This network has a purpose, we all know this purpose; and that which is not from that purpose is by definition ‘bad’ and ‘spam’, and we need to confront bad actors to defend the integrity of the network, even though we know we cannot entirely stop it, that doesn’t mean we do nothing” Now switch your thinking away from Bitcoin and towards life itself. You have people who want to do zina; Ribaa, and all sorts of vice, and the liberal be like “let them get on with it, if they want to pay for the consequences”, and those who say “no, there is something that is called ‘bad’ that affects all of us somewhere down the line, and we can’t just sit by and do nothing while they destroy the world around us”. It’s not only about Bitcoin, it’s about ‘right and wrong’, if there is ever such a thing, and what should we do about it now we’ve agreed it exists. It’s no surprise to me that Luke is leading the charge on this matter, being a religious man who deeply believes in the concept of ‘right and wrong’, and why Todd, a man who is so immoral that he supports mass murder and genocide, is on the other side. To conclude, this issue does remind me of what Ibn qayyim said about the definition of oppression/Thulm where he said “it is to place something in other than its proper place”. This is literally the situation we have now. A network born to be money, but now ppl want to put non-monetary things in place of its only purpose. The counter argument is that Bitcoin is amoral, it is just code and has no inherent ‘right and wrong’, and that is true of the simple code, but Bitcoin is more than simple code which is why a fork of Bitcoin is not Bitcoin. Bitcoin is what node runners have a consensus on, by technical design and by white paper definition. So based on the Islamic maxim الأصل بقاء ما كان على ما كان “The default position is that something remains on what it was originally on.” Until we have consensus that Bitcoin is no longer simply money and that it’s now a database for anything, including monkey JPEGs and Pepe pics, then we should not try to break consensus and act in accordance to the original consensus. But I suspect node runners will ultimately decide where this goes, and it’s up to ppl to decide where they sit in this discussion. If you’re not a node runner, and you care about the Bitcoin you use and hold, then maybe it’s time to consider running a node and taking your vote. 🗳️

An interesting page of stats. If you scroll to the left you will see that knots is growing slowly… its not almost 6%

Clark Moody Bitcoin

Dashboard

The entire Bitcoin economy at a glance

This is a good balanced explanation. The TLDR: OP_RETURN limits are not consensus limits. It was to incentivise better behaviour. Expanding the limits benefits ZK-Snark implementations But it’s is seen as accommodating spam Worth a watch. @brian_trollz in his vid on “What Bitcoin Did” that if someone disagrees, then let them run knots & be done with it. But, considering ‘Core’ is “reference code” I think preservation of consensus is more important than breaking it. So why run your changes on your own fork? We have always heard that if someone disagrees with something, they can fork their ideas on their own, so why not here then? So we could have Core remain as is, knots with more strict filtering, & their version with OP_RETURN limits removed. Or do that in Todd’s version & be done. I get the distinct feeling that ppl on both sides are digging in their heals & the debate has now got personal. I personally agree with @LukeDashjr’s approach, but at this stage, a reasonable compromise would be to do nothing. I personally think we should block spam. I have not seen a good enough argument to push through these changes which will ultimately split the user base. The upside of the change just doesn’t seem to justify the downside of in-fighting which is Bitcoin’s biggest threat, more than quantum & being banned by gov.

I don’t agree with the idea that ‘Bitcoin Core has been compromised’. I think that’s hyperbole, but i do think it is important for some diversity when it comes to implementations as opposed to 90+% being just one. The more the merrier, and bitcoiners can vote with their feet. Let’s see where this goes. I’ve switched my nodes all to knots 🪢 primarily for the diversity, and then for the filtering of BS from my node

This is ones Mempool running Knots vs one running Core. So for those who say ‘filters don’t work’, well, they seem to be working. So why are we not running filters to keep out the crap ppl want to put on it?

It turns out, half of the entire blockchain size was mined in the last 4 years. Seems like the USD wasn’t the only thing to be inflated since Covid. I guess taproot opened doors that were previously not opened before.

Bitcoin for use in actual commerce

Update on my “Bitcoin Developer Journey” learning Bitcoin at the code level, 6 months in…an amazing mission so far, & opened up so many new ideas! But one advice for both learners & educators…TYPES!!! Allaahu Akbar!! Nothing punished me more than mismatched variable types!! lol. When something is hex, or bytes, or string, or integer, going from int to str, to bytes, & back again, why we do it, when& don’t get me started on ‘little-endians’ vs ‘big-endians’! But stick to it, & push through the pain, & pay more attention to understanding error messages. I hope this would give me an increased ability to discussion Bitcoin from an islamic perspective, combining both knowledges together. And I ask Allaah to Help me make something useful for the ummah.