Don't be fooled in thinking the whole discussion is about technical details as for instance how the term database has to be defined (UTXO set vs. blockchain) etc. It’s about control again as it was in the blocksize war eight years ago. Some people want to dictate how bitcoin should evolve and their technics are perfidious by intentionally removing elements in the code that could be used by disagreeing folks. The saddest thing about this is that some previous freedom fighters are now cooperatized and are helping to gaslight and confuse bitcoiners.
@Jeff Booth is right that Bitcoin only wins if it stays decentralized. The current fatal pull request when merged will probably not kill Bitcoin, but it sets a bad precedence. It represents a centralized decision taking that takes away configurability from sovereign node runners. Unfortunately many of the Bitcoin educators are involved in the gaslighting of the community as well. So the question is: How many of such blows will Bitcoin survive?
Has @Stephan Livera been corrupted by some (hidden) interest conflict as well? This is certainly not a Austrian argument
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 Who owns the houses being distorted? That's communist ideology. The house owners are free to use spam filters if they like to do so to prevent their houses to be distorted would be the correct analogy.
This liberal point that there is no such thing as a spam transaction has already been made in the early days by Andreas Antonopoulos. Well, he is not really active here anymore. Maybe real maxis have more endurance than talking heads.
Some Bitcoin core developer are attempting to negotiate with terrorists thinking they are somehow the representatives of the Bitcoin community. Well, it does not work that way.
There are alternative scenarios out there to the fee pressure (funded by spam) that must increase in order to finance big miners. A gold holder is responsible for the safekeeping himself. Therefore it is in the interest of Bitcoin hodlers to run their mining in the future as well and take responsibility for safekeeping of the time chain. With Bitaxe, DATUM etc. the community is slowly shifting towards that. Big miners listed on the stock exchange sounds quite fiat to me. This may be just an intermediate thing that may disappear again.
"The Big Print" by @Lawrence Lepard is enriched with amusing anecdotes and expressive charts. Definitely a nice reading.
High time preference behavior over decades accumulated so much technical debt in the software systems of many banks that there is only one migration strategy left for society: Turn it off without a replacement and switch to Bitcoin.
Do we really need Don Quixote's schwarmerei (excessive enthusiasm) for chivalry in the Bitcoin social layer? The knights followed their own unholy business and if they did so with virtue in their circles doesn't make it just for society.
Nostr is to Bitcoin what git is to the Linux kernel. It started as a necessary tool to develop the latter and now it is a thing of its own.