"you have to maintain the integrity of the network"

I literally have spent an entire year talking about spam at Taiwan BitDevs, I'm so over it (I get occasional eyerolls) but it still needs to repeated. Keeping the topics technical while others keep nudging toward politics and word games has been frustrating.

My go-to explanation uses the bare-multisig transaction that contains the white paper to point out why we even have OP_Return/datacarriersize in the first place. (Fun fact: that transaction was mined by Eligius 👀).

"Having the white paper on the Blockchain is cool and all, but imagine if instead of a 9 page white paper, it was the Gangnam Style and other viral videos instead? It wouldn't take long before Bitcoin would be f'ed!"

It's hard for many to grasp the bad trajectory Bitcoin is on if people don't talk technicals. I even went over at BitDevs how to apply the filter patch while we went through how to compile Bitcoin binaries, as a means to nudge people to compile their own nodes. I'm also "trying to fix what I can 🥹"

nostr:npub1wnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn66gf2c428tdrptqq3n3wr you did a great job highlighting an important issue 🥳

The Bitcoin Matrix: Bitcoin Mechanic - Boiling the Ocean

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