There you have it folks. People on the Core side do not consider Bitcoin Money. "For me it makes no difference whether it’s 1MB of monetary data or 1MB of dickbutts." In reality this is an attack on Bitcoin. Core devs and many supporters are compromised. I wonder what Adam Back will say as he pretends to hate spam ... View quoted note → View quoted note →
Aaron van Wirdum's avatar Aaron van Wirdum
Ok, so now you’re inferring why other people may or may not want run nodes, which is a largely unfalsifiable claim— though I would point out that the data we have available suggests that users don’t mind: node count has risen in recent years despite all the Inscriptions nonsense. We can speak for ourselves, however. For me it makes no difference whether it’s 1MB of monetary data or 1MB of dickbutts. My node operates the same from my perspective. (Even slightly better if it’s dickbutts, but we can leave that aside for now.) Does it make a difference to you?
View quoted note →

Replies (9)

You too. Monero had two successful chain reorg attacks (last one with 18 blocks, 100 invalidated transactions becuase the attacker in good faith did not do double spending) and 15+ hard forks with major changes of the POW algorithm and having inflation that will double its supply in 117 years, tripple it in 234 and coniue so. image
BS. There is no security budget problem. Bitcoin is fungible money. Bitcoin blockchain allows verifiability. Privacy in Bitcoin comes from pseudonymity rather than full anonymity. — Satoshi Nakamoto
brother, think about it. If bitcoin is the future why would the markets that have adopted it in it's first days and made it famous have abandon it in recent years?