Why does bitcoin only have to be money?
Isn't everyone free to use bitcoin however they want?
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You're free to use it how you like. That doesn't mean the design has to accommodate your use cases.
I also don't have to accept your changes to the design
Oh you mean the configurable node setting that has always been tweakable according to the node runners preference? Ya no shit you don't have to use the same setting... This debate is insane
Yea that's the point, everyone can have their opinion, but what's truly best for the market will be decided by the market; and whining about it doesn't change anything. If ordinals are what the market wants, then they will get them. Personally I think they're retarded and are a fad that will die out once block space becomes more valuable.
No, that is absolutely not the point people are making. They are saying that a pool operator configuring their preferred MAX_OP_RETURN_RELAY value is somehow "an attack on Bitcoin". They are acting as if this setting is an ephemeral core parameter. It's literally designed to be and intended to be configurable.
Who is they? That was the point I was making, I think we've been shouting at each other in agreement 😅
I assumed when you said that you don't have to "accept my changes to the design" you were referring to Knots decision to include a different default value. As if altering an intentionally configurable value is "changing the design"
Money is the most valuable public good in the world. There is no problem as great as the problem that sound, stateless money solves. No, it should not be used for other things, the same as TCP/IP shouldn’t be inundated with spam connections that aren’t actually meant to do anything or send any information. If this was the norm then TCP/IP simply wouldn’t be used for communication.
If bitcoin isn’t strictly defined with rules for it to work as money, then it won’t work as money.
It’s strict limits ENABLE it to be permissionless freedom money. We can’t just say “but free markets” and drop any restrictions that some people wish were gone.
The art of doing one thing well. Why do we need things to do everything?
While I understand this, it still contradicts real freedom of the individual, to use bitcoin however they so choose.
Apple and Google will use it for financial surveillance.
You will use it as money.
And others will scribble their dick size and memes on sats.
What really makes bitcoin not work, is telling others how it should be used. Its the biggest turn off and makes no sense to the average individual talking about the freedom bitcoin brings but then telling them how they have to use it only as money.
What kind of freedom is that again?
This also plays into why I think adoption is slow for bitcoin and nostr.