The OP_RETURN controversy is a tip of the iceberg of the #NodeWars, which in turn challenge the viability of Bitcoin's critical "techno-social" layer, which in turn is the leading indicator for Bitcoin's long term relevance vs becoming just another "crypto". This is a Black Swan

The OP_RETURN controversy highlights what I call Bitcoin's "techno-social" layer. It's the few who do their Bitcoin "civic duty", like running a node (even if it's not a major "economic node") while being vigilant about which software / filters their node uses. This layer is

Yep. The tone of today's press release was "Core doesn't control anything, the magic of open source means we can screw around all we want and there are no ramifications to that!" In reality there is an enormous responsibility placed in the hands of Core devs and they want to

Bitcoin Core is done. It's on you to pay attention and figure out you're being lied to and abandon it. You can't have something as beautiful and convenient as a centralized, benevolent, uncorrupted reference implementation for a project as disruptive as Bitcoin forever. It

Bitcoin Coremunist Manifesto

DO NOT UPGRADE to bitcoin core v30

Bitcoin Core offered a formidable defence against fiat-creep infecting this space. It has now fallen and we're down to the last line of defence. Bitcoiners. It they fail to recognize what's going on and continue on the Core path then the foundation will have rotted out and the

Don't let the bad actors trick you into thinking Bitcoin Core 30 allows you to re-enable the datacarrier limit: 1) Along with unlimiting the default, they also broke it further. datacarriersize=83 now (as of Core 30) allows for 83 outputs totalling 830 bytes of spam, instead of

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Narrative evolution in the political battle to undermine Bitcoin as a monetary network: 1. There's no such thing as "spam" in Bitcoin. Transactions are either valid or invalid. 2. OK spam exists and it's a problem but it'll get priced out by genuine monetary activity. 3. OK

youtu.be/b_Vtgau29iI?si… Another gr8 summary by Mechanic #FixTheFilters #300kb on the state of the #NodeWars . Takeaway: "don't be afraid of getting involved in this discussion" despite the technical complexity, as long as ur general premise is to keep Bitcoin money VS spammed into irrelevance

Has anyone tried to model with AI some probabilities of how the current Bitcoin #NodeWars will play out? For example, Bitcoin Knots vs Core, spam vs monetary txns, OCEAN vs cenralized pools, etc. Too many intertwined variables? Hard to model the human factor?

youtube.com/watch?v=spd3pR… voravault startup seems like a legit private & wrench-attack-resistant Bitcoin self-custody solution provider. But it's a shame its founders (at 25 min mark for about 10 min) side with Core vs Bitcoin Knots, parroting Core's out-of-context talking points

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This is the perspective that has gotten missed: There is no context in which you would let random, anonymous strangers upload 100kb files to your computer on a self-regulating p2p network. The constant appeals to censorship resistance are a complete red herring. Mempool filters

youtu.be/prMsX1gkj7c?si… Dennis Porter is fundraising to help fund Knots development, bug bounties, etc. satoshiaction.org/ddf