for the 18 months leading up to may this year i was working for a company that was involved heavily in shitcoinery. i didn't find it pleasant but the amount of really bad takes and stupid ideas that i encountered, and blatantly false statements and marketing for shitcoins.

we have to defend bitcoin, it isn't going to just automatically stop malicious changes happening and it was never intended and is not helpful to pollute its database with garbage that reduces the number of users who can run replicas, and enabling bad actors to rob innocent people of their wealth.

i personally will probably be running knots on a little server box sitting next to the cable router that will be installed by next week, to throw my hat into the ring, and i will be looking carefully through the configurations to set them to my preference.

it is completely ridiculous to say that users should not have some control over servers that they are running. that's like saying you can't use a computer without running windows on it. uh. no. single point of attack. single defensive posture, means that attackers have an easier time. the more diverse bitcoin's mempool policy is, the better, in my opinion.

the mempool is the parliament of bitcoin. if you don't speak you can't complain about not being heard.