This will not save us in court. From a criminal law perspective, we will be guilty of storing and distributing csam. The police will charge us with the following: We understood the socially dangerous nature of storing csam on a computer and distributing it online, we understood the socially dangerous nature of the consequences of our actions, but we did not turn off our nodes, thereby creating favorable conditions for the creators of csam to commit a crime. If you store and transport someone else's drugs in your car, it does not matter that you did not manufacture or sell them. You are already guilty as an accomplice, at the very least.

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the bitcoin blockchain itself remained neutral 'til now, it's simply a ledger of txs. the problematic content emerges only when specialized software interprets blockchain data in ways that reconstruct harmful material. until now, the defense was that bitcoin doesnt support data, it requires extra tools and software to transform it to CSAM. however, with the introduction of core 30, this distinction becomes less tenable. 30 effectively transforms every participating node into a component of a distributed storage system making operators potentially complicit in hosting content rather than merely maintaining tx records. this shift fundamentally changes the nature of node operation from passive record-keeping to active data hosting, raising new questions about liability and responsibility for network participants. another words every node running core 30 effectively becomes part of the data-storage layer and thats a big problem! View quoted note →
what about project spartacus? classified documents are inscribed to bitcoin, without OP_RETURN. you know that, they know you know that. it is a crime legally speaking to store and propagate it.