You know what would be REALLY bad for Bitcoin? If everyone blindly trusted a centralized dev team, bent to appeals to authority and willfully ignored gigantic red flags. If no one defended Bitcoin’s core principles and ethos. That would be REALLY bad for Bitcoin. As in a death sentence for the mission of separating state and money.

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You know what else would be really bad for Bitcoin? Having gatekeepers to differentiate what is allowed on chain and what is not. Especially fanatical statists taking up theead in this. We need a middle ground.
Bitcoin is permissionless. The protocol doesn’t care about your definition of “money.” If miners include it and users pay for it, it’s valid. Nodes choose their own policies. That’s not censorship — that’s markets. #Bitcoin isn’t a bank. It’s a neutral settlement network.
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SatsAndSports 6 months ago
I made this chart on why BIP110 is anti-bitcoin. "Spam" was never the debate The rest of us care about scaling bitcoin, and we are very successful at ensuring that the UTXO set is kept small, and ensuring big miners don't benefit from out-of-band systems Knots/BIP110 is an attack on Bitcoin. But it's also now a boring distraction, and therefore we'll see more blocks signal for BIP54-Consensus-Cleanup than we do for BIP-110 satsandsports.github.io/BIP110/
So you gonna take on one of these fork futures offers, or just shitpost about things you don’t understand for clout?
Every individual has to make a moral choice. It’s an obligation. If enough people make the right choice everything will be fine. I chose #bitcoin to be money. And I chose #Bip110. You don’t tell me what to do.
There were many red flags and gaslighting coming from core and their backers. Bitcoin was always more about doing what’s right through technology (separating state and money + empowering individuals) than doing on-chain tricks. So when these people willfully ignored concerns many users brought up, and still pushed through their venture backed garbage for the sake of being paid rather than doing what was right (pausing/cancelling contentious implementations until rough consensus was achieved), they lost all credibility to me.
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21seasons 6 months ago
We use all kinds of filters for all kinds of spam. Has spam massively reduced anywhere?
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Jacob 6 months ago
Oh the "you are not technical enough to understand the brillians of core devs" There are a billion technically right decisions that can be made for the direction of Bitcoin. What hodlnaut is arguing is that core are plotting a wrong path. This requires no technical insight to debate.
Spam came with the inscriptions exploit which the compromised Core devs refused to fix. Before that filters work and transactions were monetary as it can be seen. Now we have the Core V30 from the compromised Core devs that is an attack on Bitcoin. BIP110 fixes it. image
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Trust is more relevant than ever in Bitcoin. For all non-technical people that can't check the code for themselves, all they can do is listen to people from the core and knots side with an open mind and without prejudice, to look at the actions and history of both sides, and to make a judgement based on that. I want to be on what I think will be the right side of history, and to me it's crystal clear core is the wrong side. That doesn't make me a Luke disciple or a knotzi. For the foreseeable future, knots is just what I see to be the least harmful option. I'm still on the fence about BIP-110 because I haven't looked properly into it but I'm grateful that it's out there at the very least. We've been passive and compliant for too long. Thank you, fellow Bitcoiners.
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No, I’m not on v30 and I hate junk as much as you do. But don’t kid yourself: v30 is policy, not God’s law — yet letting a self-anointed “legit use-case” committee set defaults can drift into soft censorship. Maybe next illicit use-case would be using Bitcoin for gambling? We have a precedent here. Core v30 raised OP_RETURN policy to 100k + multiples by default; you can still clamp it back to 83. The real monster is centralizing out-of-band miner pipelines if you try to shun demand at relay level.
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21seasons 6 months ago
Haven't there been spam on Bitcoin since it's creation? Satoshi "spammed" message in block 1, colored coins and NFT have been thing since 2012 etc.
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21seasons 6 months ago
BIP110 doesn't actually fix anything. It just tries to prevent some people from transacting, even though they're willing to pay the fee. That itself sounds quite backwards thinking, shouldn't we try to build system that would have less discrimination on who/why/when transactions are happening 🤔
Not 40% of the transactions. Calling " Satoshi "spammed" message in block 1" is stupid. By default Bitcoin Knots allows 42 Bytes OP_RTEURNs and that is fine, a sane default but also gives people the freedom to set whatever they want.
BIP110 fixes the abuse of spam. And of course that spammers and scammers would defend inscriptions, ordinals, NFTs and other scams. They are against BIP110. Bitcoin is Freedom Money and BIP110 helps exactly that. image
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21seasons 6 months ago
"sane default but also gives people the freedom to set whatever they want" This is good that people can choose, even though it's quite meaningless setting. There's much more interesting things to look at and configure in bitcoin config, so by default it would be best that there's no limit and if somebody wants to setup some filters for some reason and knows what they're doing, they should be free to do it.
Wrong. OP_RETURN filter at 42 Bytes is good as it keeps peoples own mempool free of spam and those people don't relay spam on Bitcoin Monetary Network.
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21seasons 6 months ago
I think it's somewhat contradicting to say that Bitcoin is freedom money while promoting a change that tries to prevent people from sending valid transactions.
It is not contradictory because Bitcoin is permissionless Monetary Network and no one is preventing people from sending and recieving monetary transactions and that is now proven with real world transactions. Spam abuses Bitcoin and needs to be filtered out.
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21seasons 6 months ago
But you cannot say what transactions every people consider spam. That's why it would be best to include all valid tx's and if wanted, then one can fine tune.
Of course that we know what spam is and we can say which transactions are spam. Just see the screenshots again.
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Lets see how a monetary transaction looks like and how an OP_RETURN spam that takes 100s to 1000s times more space look like. I am sure you will notice the difference. Spam is disgusting. 1. This is how a Bitcoin monetary transaction looks like image 2. This is how OP_RETURN transaction looks like image and the spam waste of space goes on and on like that image
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Akashi Hyogo 6 months ago
This is what happens when we fight for scraps. I was hoping bull market + increase in transaction volumes would take us out of this madness. Instead we are heading for a brutal bear market with contentious fork -> chain and community split -> even more drama and selling.
And it all started with the compromised Core devs releasing Core V30 At that point we didn't even know about their meetings with Epstein and Epstein investing in them ... image
indeed. we need more than bitcoin knots and core. there should be at least one credible third alternative, at minimum, problem is that most of the alternatives are craply written, poorly maintained, and sub par performance. specifically, btcsuite's btcd is an absolutely appallingly written node. i don't even know what the hell roasbeef is doing these days, there is very likely still bugs that i observed 3 years ago on it, and grandfathered into LND as well, and when i tried to make contributions to improve both btcd and lnd a few years ago, the utter lack of interest in other people contributing was appalling.
Core is not defining bitcoin to be just money. Stupid. I can use bitcoin however j want. Sorry you attached monetary value to it and now your life depends on it. Im not changing for your convenience
Being uneducated and illiterate and ignorant will hurt you more than your illusion if truth. Just cause you consider it money does not make it money. Its a protocol you fool
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Jacob 6 months ago
You can unfortunately use is as a data base duev to core not implementing Lukes patch to to the Taproot bug. I hope this will change
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Jose Sammut 3 months ago
The disagreement is healthy. I don't even know what side he's on, but he's right here whichever way. Some of you are the problem.