show me on the doll where the blockchain spam touched you

government adoption full blocks high fees all meaningful indicators of Bitcoin’s success fight me

All of the OP_RETURN drama just reinforces for me how few people actually understand how Bitcoin works at a fundamental level. Anyone telling you that you can filter out arbitrary data at the mempool policy level are either malicious or misinformed, it simply is not feasible.

Interesting observation in all of this is: > Luke & Co. (no disrespect) are all loosely coming together to criticize Bitcoin Core™️, running Knots, anti-spam, pro-filtering, etc. >> Many of them, especially Luke, want to make the blocksize smaller. >>> The bcashers/big

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you see Peter Todd (possibly Satoshi?!?!) was asked to open the PR, it wasn’t his own idea!

Please be careful using data like this to assess sentiment. A few notes: * Nodes were spoofed during SegWit in favor of the blocksize increase * Bcashers despise Bitcoin Core and blame them for their terrible lives. Not hard for them to run a Knots node to counter signal Core

i’m alternatively okay with a softfork that makes the consensus rules enforce an 80 byte limit to OP_RETURN or whatever byte limit people think is needed for actually important L2 functions that aren’t jpegs and data storage turns out we have no clue what that is and then

This is an honest question for everyone: What is the damage?

Some thoughts I've just been letting stew for a while on how to mentally set goals when it comes to Bitcoin scaling. Too much gets lost in over-generalization when fixating on transactional throughput and nothing else, or framing tradeoffs as binary. Article below.

you guys are still fighting over jpegs ?!?!?!

America will never be the same.

Daniel Penny prevented this from happening on a NYC subway. Instead of thanking him, many hated him for it.

They killed a 31 year old father of two whose only crime was to go to university campuses and engage in good faith with people who disagreed with him. If this isn’t a wake up call then we’re never going to wake up.

If we just use our words more, the people we don't like will eventually stop behaving in ways we don't like.

The Left just blew all their trust. Normies see a nice guy doing a simple debate, not a political speech, not leading a rally or a riot, getting gunned down in 4k. Then they see a bunch of people, even their friends, cheer and clap and dance. They ask why. "Well, you see, he

Wait a minute… The guy trying desperately to usher in superintelligence at Meta is named Roko’s Basilisk-o????