⚡️💬 WATCH - Andreas Antonopoulos on the Bitcoin spam debate ⤵︎
https://blossom.primal.net/f83b096c7f112bf1a7b7a5f9a9295f136ce12bf336de72a77bc7ae18ce555c91.mp4
Discussion
Someone said he's a shitcoiner now?
Someone….?
Someone on Nostr, like, today.
Wtf he is one of the greatest Bitcoin educators of all time
Noobs gotta learn.
He’s purposefully confusing concepts. The word censorship applies to limiting the free exchange of ideas. Those ideas are exchanged in public squares (Nostr, X, Hyde Park). There should be no rules. Then there are market places (eBay, Amazon, Les Halle’s). Lots of rules. Then there’s money ( #bitcoin , gold). Two key criteria: Scarcity, immutability.
If you make Bitcoin into a public square, according to his logic, the 21 million cap would be censorship.
Mixing up concepts is Orwellian new speak. He’s a bad actor.
Now I will say, they won. With Core v30, #bitcoin is dead.
Who probably heard it from someone, who heard it from someone….
Don’t trust; verify.
Listen to the man. Form your own opinions.
Example of garbage coming out of one's mouth.
The size limits are censorship argument is retarded. Transaction size limits still exist in v30 mempool policy. Blocksize limits still exist in consensus rules. I'll assume he's talking about censoring non-monetary data via bip444.
The argument that if you "censor" (block non-monetary data) now, you will be forced to censor other things (OFAC?) is also retarded. That only works if there's one node implementation and everyone blindly upgrades it. Node runners choose to not upgrade or to switch implementations, as we have recently seen. If Core v31 had OFAC censorship we would fork off.
Andreas knows this.
I’m not technical and don’t have an opinion on this topic. However I like his point of view; it reminds me of the saying that allowing a government to print money only on an emergency, will be too tempting and they will do it every time they want
