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I love that @Matthew Kratter is adopting a total war strategy with respect to Bitcoin Core. It gives me hope that Bitcoin will emerge from the spam wars healed and stronger than ever. ?

An empire in late stage collapse attacks not only their enemies but antagonizes its allies. RIP Bitcoin Core

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Ben Sigman (@bensig) on X

Core devs now blocking me on X. Hilarious. I’ve been completely on the side of core this entire time… AND I am still in support of core devel...

"Core devs now blocking me on X. Hilarious. I’ve been completely on the side of core this entire time… AND I am still in support of core development AND I’d like to see the greater community align again - after more carefully understanding the process of reviewing and merging PRs this week it became clear that a mistake was made in changing the default size of the OP_RETURN - which was obviously not a consensus decision. Even if the opinions of the NACKs were philosophical rather than technical for the most part… one argument that is very valid is that the cost of OP_RETURN storage is 4x the fee of where what some people call “garbage” has landed in witness_data - so there is literally no incentive to use a more expensive trash bin when it is less costly to litter. The absolutely most ridiculous part of it is that they could just add back the default and it would make no difference to them really but mean the world to hundreds or maybe even thousands of other people. I opened a PR to suggest it and it got shut down so quickly! Now they are also blocking me on X." @bensig

Allegory of the Core Before we had the matrix to unplug from, Plato gave us the Allegory of the Cave. In that story the Priest class enslaved the people in the fiat system by projecting a fake reality onto the cave walls. A guy escapes, discovers the real world, and then goes back to try to save the others, and they don't believe that sunshine and blue skies is real, and they threaten to kill him. Ever try to orange pill a normie, and get this response? The story transcends time, and in our age bitcoin is reality that let's you escape the financial chains. But just like Cypher betrayed his shipmates on behalf of the matrix, Core V30 tries to convince you that NFTs are money. Plug back into the system. The fees are the filter. The Taproot Wizards are the new Priest class shouting down common sense by telling us that your opinion doesn't matter because you're not technical. I've seen the light, and I'm not going back inside the cave to stare at graffiti spammed onto the walls.