Was blocked by Peter Todd today after I called out his evil for celebrating the attack on Russian civilians. True colours on display, and no amount of contribution to Bitcoin should give anyone a free pass for being evil.

I hate censorship. Filtering out non-monetary data on Bitcoin is objective, and is not censorship at all... Because Bitcoin isn't a general speech platform - it is a specific speech platform allowing the movement of bitcoin. There already exists an unstoppable speech platform, notes and other things transmitted over relays (NOSTR). No transfer of Bitcoin from one address to another can be censored from Bitcoin. Payments are essentially censorship resistant. Arbitrary data is not, and should not be - that'd be inventing a different purpose for Bitcoin. If a particular transfer got blocked because it has arbitrary data, the exact same transfer can be reattempted without the arbitrary data and it will get through. Inscriptions data inside an "if false(data)" block is objectively not part of the attempts to make a financial transaction. It is objectively added on as arbitrary data. It can be filtered out without stopping the movement of that particular UTXO. The perpetrator can simply republish the transaction without the arbitrary data and the exact same satoshis will move where they want it to go. Does this kind of argument have a place, Gloria?

"Grok please generate a text message conversation where Luke is considering a bitcoin hard fork."

Get a girl who's a Bitcoiner and uses vim. Nah, don't, that's a dude.

There are a few people out there who don't make their own pastirma and frankly, it's a little upsetting. It's not expensive to make. Recipe...

Pastirma / Basturma – Bitcoin Guides

"I'm happy to pay MY taxes." GFY, dickhead, you'd also swallow for YOUR rapist.

Bitcoin isn't supposed to replace banks. The purpose is to end the CENTRAL banking scam. Central banking is not the same thing as regular banking. When designing a DIGITAL MONEY you need to eliminate the central coordinator of the money, which has always been necessary to protect against double spending. It is that central coordinator, the central bank, that Satoshi eliminated the need for (a solution to the Byzantine generals problem). Nothing to do with the banking service which is highly valuable to humanity. Banking is just messed up at the moment because of malincentives and government protection policies, and broken money. More in my essay... armantheparman.com/tpwm/

It's possible to install Bitcoin Core instead of Knots on Parmanode software, but you're going to get an earful from me... If the user ignores my warning, I'm not leaving them alone. If Core can change defaults, so can I. Honest improvement... There is a single click upgrade (yes, upgrade, not update), to Knots. Takes 2 minutes and the blockchain is preserved. aaaaand, it's live. version 3.66.0

You wake up and 1 Bitcoin hits 1 Bitcoin. What do you do?

Consensus lives in a network of human minds ("philosophical consensus"), partly represented by the choice of code that's run (or adhered to) by such a group, and another part unrepresented, unwritten, and sometimes not apparent. It's NOT the code that's in charge, with the ideology being secondary (subservient to the code), it's the exact reverse. One example of a hidden fracture in ideology was when big blockers and small blockers shared the same general ideology and were in consensus according to the code, but there was a fracture that only became apparent in 2017, and the code changed for each group to reflect their ideology. Currently, a new fracture is appearing. On one side, people believe stopping spam is censorship (even though the purpose of fees is to limit ddos spam attack, not stop). On the other side, people believe Bitcoin is money first, and storing data is a byproduct of that function, not a primary purpose, and so it's not censorship to limit spam. Just because the code can't enforce this ideology precisely, doesn't mean we change our ideology (it's like changing documentation to hide a bug). These two ideologies are why the change to Bitcoin Core is contentious. Without understanding this difference in ideology, there's no point trying to have logical debates.

It's not easy being on the side that defends making it easier for CSAM to be relayed through everyone's node, for some imagined/debatable benefit (i.e. less miner centralisation). It's time to take a good hard look at yourself and accept you were wrong. If you weren't taking a side, it's time to step up. You don't have go deeper into Core Derangement Syndrome ™. Just switch to the correct side, and join us calling out the stupid arguments of Core Groupies. This is not a Knots vs Core debate, you don't have to like Knots. It's a "Core is wrong" debate.

Bitcoin Core will be used as a mule for free, unstoppable CP/CSAM by sickos or state actors, in order to attack Bitcoin and prosecute those who knowingly allow it. This is the attack... Once op_return is removed, plain JPEG images (not part of multiple fragments inside scripts that need to be pieced together and decoded, but plain JPEG/GIF/MP4) will be sent through your Bitcoin HardCore node version 30+, from one paedophile to others, possibly sold (Knots runners won't touch them, ever). Your Core node will happily pass it along, providing anonymity to the criminals (or state attackers, or Epstein's old clients). They will pay a well below market rate initially (eventually zero), and never even need to get the transaction mined - key point. The original filter that Satoshi introduced, FEES, will be effectively bypassed... After some time, these low-fee CP/CSAM txs will be dropped by Bitcoin Core nodes, but if they don't, the sicko(s) can do an RBF of the transaction (or if they have chained them, an RBF of a single low-fee unconfirmed parent), to cancel and invalidate the transaction so they don't have to actually pay for any of the downstream higher fee large transactions. They will have successfully used your computer to transfer and potentially sell horrible images, without paying (so forget "filters don't work, they'll get on chain anyway"), thanks you being complicit, and thanks to all the Core devs who allowed this in. And those gaslighting against us saying this is wrong. Then public opinion will turn heavily against Bitcoiners, if it isn't bad enough now. We already know it's going to get worse as most miss out. @adam3us has pointed out, incorrectly (I'll explain), that this attack can't work, because of some "package relay". Sounds like this is a filter to stop RBFs of a parent if there is a long chain of transactions dependent on it. A clever idea, but it can't work, Adam. Do you know why? Because your resistance itself is a form of FILTER, and FILTERS DON'T WORK, remember? You can not use an argument against us if that same argument is used to defend yourself. An attacker can get their cancelling RBF transaction mined by going directly to a miner. Then the scumbags get away with using your Bictoin Core node for CP/CSAM transmission - it's irrelevant whether it gets on a block or not, it doesn't need to, the paying paedophile got his images. Ironically, filters not working is the very reason we need filters. There are 3 solutions. 1) Bitcoin Core reverses this STUPID rushed decision, introducing completely unnecessary risk to Bitcoin. 2) We all run Knots, and it becomes the reference client. 3) We move away from Core to Knots, and maybe others will pop up, and there is no reference client, meaning fewer meaningful changes to Bitcoin become likely. Bitcoin doesn't need changes; it needs general light maintenance, so just maintain it, don't change it! x.com/adam3us/status…

Today on "Old man yells at society" ... Self serve checkout at Safeway, staffed by 5 people ushering people to checkout... "Paying by card?" STFU, everyone is paying by card, you're just in the way. Just make each machine accept card or cash and you save paying the salary of five people. They tukerrjowbs!!

I think we shouldn't get sucked into the distracting technical debate about OP_RETURN -- there is a principle that's at stake: Do not make meaningful changes that nearly all users are against, for debatable marginal benefit, EVEN IF it's "better" technically. That's not your place, nor your role, open source developer. Satoshi gave Bitcoin to humanity so we all own it. You are putting your speech on OUR PROPERTY; you are a steward, not the boss. As people migrate away to other versions, it becomes clearer to see that the consensus rules are no longer in the Bitcoin Core code as they once were (reference implementation). They are now in all our nodes, all agreeing with each other's DNA expression, with the resulting phenotype being the timechain. To come to understand this, consider if Bitcoin Core changed the consensus rules unilaterally - that can't change what all the users run, where the true rules are. And so, the more diversification away from Core, the less of a central point of failure/attack it becomes, and the better for Bitcoin. Everyone should celebrate the reduction of Bitcoin Core as the first choice of Node flavour. Core groupies are spending all day on Twitter fighting... but why? Why do they care? Why are they seemingly so coordinated? It would be a far more natural a response to not care and let people run what that want to run. Something is fishy about the behaviour. "Oh, it's not your property, you can just fork, or make your own version from scratch"... EXACTLY. You can only pick one... 1) Bitcoin is not all our property, we can all fork or use Knots (OK, then why are you fighting on Twitter with Knots users? Why are their nodes being ddos attacked? What's the incentive?) 2) Bitcoin is all our property and you fucked up.

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Why aren't you constantly violently sick in your stomach that you, your parents, your grandparents, humanity, all worked their butts off, and central banks just print their money out of thin air for free, and tell you with a straight face that it's so you can have a job, and keep prices stable. MOTHER FUCKEN WHAT? Buy #Bitcoin to destroy these fuckers, and then we also incarcerate them all for good measure.

You're a fucking retard -- experts say.

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Switzerland is a waste of energy. It could be used to mine bitcoin instead.