Bitcoin is programmable money. More features like better self custody and vaults as well as scaling lightning are important in making it an even better money. It's early days and bitcoin isn't finished yet.

LOL the filteroos aren't going to like this tweet by saylor!

We have clear, verifiable evidence confirming that v30 was a response to network changes, not the cause of them. You can clearly see that op returns and spam were spiking well before v30 shipped from this on-chain data. Sources linked in reply below.

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Transaction Relay Filters & Bitcoin Core Defaults There appears to be considerable confusion about transaction relay filters on the Bitcoin ne...

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I got a bit tired of being constantly told that oversized OP_RETURN outputs exploded since the release of Bitcoin Core 30.0 (2026-10-10). So, here�...

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The important thing is that the spikes in nonstandard OP_RETURNs were in Mar 2024, May 2025, Aug 2025. All before v30 shipped in November 2025. The...

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LOL hodlonaut flip flopping, such a politician, if he only he'd of actually pay attention to technical information instead of politics and cancel culture he'd have a lot easier time.

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I had a long talk with wise @giacomozucco today. And I am withdrawing my support for BIP-110. I stand by A and B of this post. And partly C. Som...

It seems BIP 110 folks are perfectly fine with breaking bitcoin's neutrality, removing important upgrade paths, destroying people's vaults, confiscating coins and causing a split. Awesome.

Remember when everyone was like "hey devs shouldn't 'tinker' too much" when CTV was being proposed, and now people are literally going along with a far more significant update and endless SFing to stop spam. The irony is too much.

Bitcoin is freedom money. Bitcoin is fuck you money. Bitcoin is NOT a democracy-good-feelz money.

With the removal of the op return limit in v30 Core recognized that it's important we keep block space a decentralized market and not incentivize a private mempool with backdoor channels to miners.

hodlonaut was a clown in 2017, and he's a clown now, the only difference is instead of begging for money he's begging for attention.

See what Knots / 110 folks don't seem to understand is that Core tried to take a stand at the relay level (safer) and literally everyone ignored them. So doing it at the consensus level (far more dangerous) would certainly cause a split, which is exactly what 110 is going to do. And even then it doesn't actually prevent spam as Peter Todd proved when he embedded the entire 110 pdf doc in a 110 compliant transaction :/ So when the split inevitably happens and a future market forms, 110 will be on the losing end.

Bcash purists - "Bitcoin is cash" BSV purists - "Bitcoin is satoshi's vision" Knots/110 Purists - "Bitcoin is money" We've heard it all before. Ideology after ideology. When people are unhappy with what bitcoin is they try to change it using fear, ideology and anti-core rhetoric but bitcoin changes you, you don't change bitcoin. The reality is bitcoin is, and that is enough.

It's pretty simple, all Tone is saying is he does want more people to run nodes, but would prefer the people running those nodes be more technical, which is exactly the opposite type of people that node in a box companies attract.

Points that have been walked back from the Knots side so far and counting: -Core v30 will kill bitcoin -Spam will kill bitcoin -They won't fork

Reminder: The social contract wasn't broken by Core, it was broken in February 2024 when MARA launched Slipstream. Slipstream is a service to mine any consensus valid transaction for the right fee, bypassing normal mempool policy entirely. This contract was technically enforced by mempool filters like the 83-byte OP_RETURN limit, however Mara’s Slipstream proved that these filters were just "gentlemen's agreements" that large miners could bypass at will. Core's op return changes 20 months later weren't "enabling spam", they were acknowledging this broken contract and that the filter had already failed because you can't enforce gentlemen's agreements when miners are openly advertising they'll ignore them. These changes once again even the playing field for those wanting to get their transactions mined. It's harm reduction, plain and simple.