The concern is that many of us have lost any faith in either of the development teams of the two major node implementations, with one resorting to all manner of strongarming and design philosophies reminiscent of Apple, and the other literally resorting to 'think of the children.'
I for one will be not upgrading from knots 27, and exploring what the BTCD team has going on.
I actually seen BTCD out here making little tiny waves recently… what are your thoughts on RISC-V?
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Wait what? Since when are the node runners children?
The threat of childporn and malware is not a "think of the children"
It's a "making it more expensive and possibly illegal to run nodes will adversely affect node runners"
The child porn already exists, nobody is suggesting that core 30 will encourage people to hurt children.
The children in question have already been abused and the abuse material is already being circulated.
It's a threat to node runners and Bitcoin itself rather than a threat to children.
Although permanently hosting that kind of stuff may cause further trauma to those children that's not the actual concern here.
Anyway it doesn't matter because all that'll happen is that it'll create a fork and nobody will run the core 30 blockchain after it forks.
Bitcoin has already been through this before.
Same thing that happened last time will happen again
Honestly think of the children would have been more compelling than "we don't want to do anything illegal."
Not sure when Bitcoin became about following the rules of terrestrial governments. Its whole value proposition is permissionlessness. Nobody says your node has to run on clearnet.
Pandering to governments seems more about NGU than anything else.
Sure, we'd shake off some folks with less conviction. But such crises are where Bitcoin has always proven itself and come through stronger.
If we could shake Larry Fink out that'd be the real trophy. If it's not clear why, perhaps check out Marty's conversation with Vince Lanci on the most recent nostr:nprofile1qythwumn8ghj76r99eex2mrp09skymr99ehhyee0qyfhwumn8ghj7ur4wfcxcetsv9njuetn9uq3xamnwvaz7tmzd968xarpvd4juctswqhsz9thwden5te0wfjkccte9ejxzmt4wvhxjme0qyd8wumn8ghj7un9d3shjtndd9hxjcn0d36zu6twvehj7qpqsk7mtp67zy7uex2f3dr5vdjynzpwu9dpc7q4f2c8cpjmguee6eeq6unscg .
