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Don't let the bad actors trick you into thinking Bitcoin Core 30 allows you to re-enable the datacarrier limit:

1) Along with unlimiting the default, they also broke it further. datacarriersize=83 now (as of Core 30) allows for 83 outputs totalling 830 bytes of spam, instead of just 92 bytes of spam (9 bytes of which couldn't be arbitrary) as in Core 29 and earlier.

2) datacarriersize is marked as deprecated, and explicitly planned to be removed in a future release (likely silently, since "it's already deprecated").

3) Core never fixed the Inscription exploits (CVE-2023-50428 and CVE-2024-34149) which allow spammers to bypass the datacarriersize limit.

The only way forward now is a mass migration to Knots. Not the way I wanted things to go, but Core has given us no other choice. Once this is resolved, we should avoid putting all our eggs in one basket, and encourage the creation and use of multiple clients.
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charliesurf 6mo ago

serious question: if it's so easy to fork bitcoin and it's open source why there aren't multiple clients around developed by the main bitcoin brands like blockstream, microstrategy, strike, swan, river, bullbitcoin, etc...???

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028559d218 6mo ago

Because a 'client' is not something you do on a whim. It is a serious software project because it involves peoples money and capital

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charliesurf 6mo ago

yes that what i thought... but don't you find that at odds with how easy shitcoiners come up with new coins?

i think there is clearly a lack of incentives beside altruism

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charliesurf 6mo ago

i mean new bLoCkChaiNs not coins....

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028559d218 6mo ago

Maybe so but that's not about Bitcoin. They don't have new blockchains. They have new 'servers' that they pretend are decentralized or something

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028559d218 6mo ago

There are an infinite number of 'new coins'. They can be created and are created by the *millions* every single day in "crypto".

In my opinion the best filter in the long run that's ethically economically and technically sound for Bitcoin is the fee market... and a community that passionately *uses* Bitcoin to keep that market competitive.

The 'new coins' can be created in an infinite number of ways... and the 'shitcoiners' will run out of money eventually when people stop buying them. People don't have infinite money and over time they give up and move on.