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Now that the inscriptions people are attracting a lot of talented developers, I’m noticing something that I haven’t felt in YEARS.

Back in 2013 era I would never feel comfortable wading into the tech conversation of Bitcoin development.

After the blocksize wars, it became easier to understand the conversation around bitcoin consensus.

Now that the inscriptions people are pushing, in a somewhat adversarial way, ideas like mempool filtering, op_ctv, op_cat, running nodes to inscribe, etc — I feel way less comfortable having an opinion.

For the first time in YEARS, it feels like the shadowy super coders are the participants in the battlefield of ideas pushing the conversation forward, rather than the philosophical intellectuals and monetary maximalists.

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OT 2y ago

We can still look into all the effects of inscriptions & BRC tokens. If you find that you don't like it, you can filter. Or keep learning about it until you find a "side"

bitbuybyte 2y ago

...and this is good???

Bitcoin_To_The_Oblivion 2y ago

nostr:npub1zjx3xe49u3njkyep4hcqxgth37r2ydc6f0d7nyfn72xlpv7n97ss73pvrl This is really good observation. How can we create army of people who also have good technical understanding of Bitcoin code and consensus so, people don't buy into PSYOP created by these shadowy supercoders?

How difficult for someone (who doesn't have technical or programming knowledge) to digest "Mastering Bitcoin" book by Andreas?

#Bitcoin

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Bitcoin_To_The_Oblivion 2y ago

This is really good observation from Brad.

Is there any way to create army of plebs who also have good technical understanding about #Bitcoin core code and consensus so, we can prevent any PSYOP from shadowy supercoders and wizards?

How difficult for someone (who doesn't have programming background) to digest "Mastering Bitcoin" book by Andreas.

#Bitcoin #BTC

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Nyoro~n 2y ago

Even less technical people feel comfortable discussing because lots of things in the past to draw parallels to --this has all happened before.

Expanding the mempool filters to also catch arbitrary data stored in tx witness data makes a lot of sense because it's how arbitrary data on Bitcoin has always been addressed. Expanding mempool filters doesn't break consensus.

The adversarial inscribers who spout " filters-dont-work-because-i-can-pay-miners" don't add anything to the conversation and forget that despite the increased fees from including spam, miners always "could" run the risk of getting their blocks orphaned when enough nodes on the network slow down the propagation of those blocks. The increased mining revenue will be short-lived.

It's not so much stopping inscriptions (can't be done), but discouraging those behaviors to an extent to get them to use something else to achieve their goals instead. No one is activating CTV to store jpegs when OP_Return could do the job just fine, and the disabled OP_CAT is a non-starter