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Bitcoin Monk 3 months ago
>Resist the cancel culture purity brigade and their moralizing mob mentality attacks on Bitcoin. You mean the bitcoin who just don't want to store YOUR jpegs on THEIR node? >We do not ask for your permission or for anyone's approval of our voluntary interactions. You ARE asking permission to store your filth on my computer and MANY bitcoiners don't want to do that. Node runners signed up to run a monetary network and people like you are taking advantage of how the system works to use their nodes for things they did not agree to. Are you that much of a narcissist that you are willing to discourage people from running a node just so you can put an image somewhere it cant be removed. The only reason that data is permanent is because it is store on money. If the money isn't worth anything you loose your data and we loose our one chance at removing control of the money from the state. >Your attempts to undermine Bitcoin's core principles will fail. What are bitcoins core principles? Free cloud service for the world? Or freedom money for the world. If you were the ones fighting for bitcoins are the ones saying make bitcoin money again. You filtered me on twitter, how ironic, but now that I have your attention I challenge you to prove me wrong. You imply, if not explicitly say, that knots is censoring valid transactions. That is not true. Bitcoin IS censorship resistant and knots doesn't change that. Prove me wrong.

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your reply is definitely more down to earth than mine, I would argue as a constructive criticism the following: - you called him a "narcissist" which he still might be, and yet you are making it into an ad hominem, by criticizing the way you perceive his character rather than criticizing his arguments (I was somewhat prickly myself, but against the arguments rather than the person) - I would argue that they are in fact *not* asking for permission, they are just pushing and pushing and pushing a certain version of the facts and of the philosophy of bitcoin in order to make noderunners store their garbage - your point regarding the "free cloud service" doesn't work too well, because it is not free, rather at a flat one-time mining fee, but I get the meaning of that and it has merit What the "YOU ARE CENSORIIIINNGGGHH!!" bunch doesn't do, ever, is DEFINE what censorship really IS. If they defined it, they would need to admit that they are "censoring" dissent on the bitcoin core github repo way more than any knots operator is censoring shitcoins and degeneracies on his own hardware.
To me it’s starting to sound like: Knots- rules, not rulers Core- rulers, no rules