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Midwit bell curve guy reporting for duty. It’s actually pretty funny how he’s right in the middle of the curve after being in the left part a just a short while ago. Don’t bother watching the whole thing, maybe just the first 8-10 minutes for the lols. View quoted note →

I’ve already upgraded to Bitcoin Core 30, but I’ve set the OP_RETURN limit to 80 byte I agree — choosing the more expensive option makes little sense if spammers are going to abuse it anyway. Better to keep the chain clean. ⚡

Well though opinion. Appreciate the author who spent time and energy to have this understood. Proof of work. Run a node. Choose implementation you like, set it up you like. We are all Bitcoin

This is overall not bad, imo. My main criticisms to @npub1yp4n...kqyk would be: 1) it propagates without nuances the "experts vs demagogues" false framing, which is mostly made up (the "Knots side" includes experienced developers like Luke or SuperTestnet, who are way more technical than some influencers on the "Core side" like Shinobi or Lopp, who are more skilled at popularization and mass communication, letting alone that Dunning-Kruger doesn't just apply to computer science illiteracy, but also to economic, social and legal illiteracy, which also abunds on both sides), 2) it completely misrepresents Citrea's involvement, depicting a bunch of literal shitcoin scammers as "legit", and claiming they "need" that specific encoding method (which they actually adapted just out of laziness and lack of care), and they are "hoping to move to less harmful methods", which they publicly stated they aren't even considering at the moment, 3) it omits a lot of nasty triggers by some influential people on the "Core side", which are imo at the root of the current division and drama: the "it isn't spam if it's valid or pays fees" nonsense, the "mempool policy are censorship" nonsense, the "spam filtering in Core never existed" nonsense, the vitriolic and obsessive witch hunt against important and good projects for Bitcoin like OCEAN and Start9, the gross mismanagement of the github repo, the fixation on mempool changes as a way to show dominance and regulate personal beefs, etc. For the rest, pretty good. I agree with the overall takeaways: - search for the truth instead of parroting the slogans of your tribe - mine on OCEAN and DATUM (and maybe tomorrow SV2) - run your node with your own mempool policies (I'm filtering "inscriptions" since 2022) - keep looking for possible long-term mitigations to spam (witness discount removal soft forks, fast-to-update user-side spam-filtering policies outside of Core, etc.) View quoted note →

Great video. Finally one without the tribal feel behind it.

Blowing up the OP_Return limit and allowing more than one OP_Return per txn does not fix anything or make Bitcoin functions better, only exposes an attack vector unnecessarily. This will drive up transaction fees, potentially pricing out smaller, every-day financial transactions and making Bitcoin less accessible for its original P2P cash use case. You should learn more about this before pretending everything is fine.

The video seems to keep skipping every few seconds. Does anyone else notice this? Sorry, not willing to watch with that effect

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@npub1yp4n...kqyk Core v30 is an attack on Bitcoin run by shitcoiners.

But we have to do something! can't just stand still! Bitcoin is money! 🤣😂🤣 View quoted note →