Bitcoin Monk

People in the future will marvel that in the early years of bitcoin that we allowed 5 people to just decide what bitcoin is. And half of them didn't know the difference between a man and a woman. People will look back on this time as one of the most morally depraved, inhumane and dangerous times in history. They will look back on us like we lived in the dark ages. We are cavemen who discovered lightning. Meaning, besides the incredible advancements in technology, we are so early in the evolution of human governance and morality that what we tolerate today will become unheard of in the future. I believe technology can actually play a huge role in this. Either we adopt a sound money or governments will inflate away all the productivity and prosperity that would be achieved through AI and robotics. Either we treat each other decently and leave each other alone or there will be endless wars. Either we shrink governments or they will inevitably lead to tyrant after tyrant. As the world goes so does bitcoin, or maybe vice versa. Just maybe. The solution is simple. Opt out. Buy what you need from friends and family with bitcoin and accept it as payment for your products/services. Save your data on your own computer. Shop locally. Go to church. Get married and start a family. And have fun. I think we would be ok if we all just did that and didn't worry about much else.

"The refusal of King George the third to allow the colonies to operate an honest money system which freed the ordinary man from the clutches of the money manipulators was probably the prime cause of the revolution." - Benjamin Franklin

This big beautiful consolidation transaction has been in my mempool for the last six blocks and was actually rejected by Foundry USA 3 times, viaBTC, and Binance in favor of a bunch of garbage spam. This is where core 30 is taking us. Core nodes now favor bloating the utxo set over shrinking it. My knotty node has been trying to mine this transaction the entire time but it was displaced by spam that core 30 is optimized for. Why is core software rejecting valid transactions that are actually beneficial to the blockchain in favor of flooding the blockchain with bullshit dust transactions. This transaction was eventually mined by F2Pool and turned 1000 utxos into 1. Why are we optimizing bitcoin to be free data storage service for miscreants instead of prioritizing transactions that clean up that junk. I'm sure this is just some scammer preparing another mint of dick butts on the chain but it still begs the question. Why is it easier to spam the chain than clean it up. Seems like the incentives are perverse.