An ISP is protected under common carrier laws. To assume a Bitcoin node is somehow going to get the same treatment is overplaying your hand. Especially when there is currently another version of the software that gives a best effort to avoid spreading it, where as the other implementation invites it in. And the most damaging risk isnāt courts, itās a reporter with no tools saying ālook csam on Bitcoinā. Expending OP_Return makes csam easily visable to anyone with an explorer and not buried in witness gibberish. Being techically sound isn't everything and there is a serious human element missing here. I think the core side is really missing that.
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Better to fight the battle in court than to volunteer infrastructure censorship. You think theyāll stop at OP_RETURN? Talk about overplaying a hand. Careful who you get in bed with.
That doesnāt even make sense. You assume they wonāt stop at op return and then say Iām overplaying my hand? I donāt āget in bedā with people, I make decisions based on ideas, not personalities. I want Bitcoin to be money, not a csam spam dump you call freedom. And if youāre so against filtering, better stop filtering your email too, thatās censorship, right?
I want bitcoin to be money too so Iām building a company that actually gets people to use it as such rather than virtue signaling a node policy that 1) doesnāt do shit to help bitcoin be used as money, and 2) incentivizes out of band transactions that hurt decentralization
What's the company so that others know you and your team support Core?
We support all consensus valid relayers including both Knots and Core over at nostr:npub1nkfqwlz7xkhhdaa3ekz88qqqk7a0ks7jpv9zdsv0u206swxjw9rq0g2svu !
Thanks for the attention, we intend to increase Bitcoinās usage as money through good UX thatās completely free from virtue signaling š
Btw regarding your email position: SMTP relayers like Postfix/Sendmail donāt filter content. Filtering is an application-layer choice, not part of the protocol.
Hypothetically, wouldnt it really suck if bots spammed you all day on nostr with junk so you could almost never see anything legitimate on your feed? Maybe you could try to block them? But nostr is a protocol right? You wouldn't do that for censorship reasons
Thereās an interesting piece of this debate that hasnāt really been addressed. Bitcoin Core/Knots are simultaneously clients and protocol relayers. At the protocol level there should be no filtering IMO, client level different story but that should be up to each individual. More implementations the better, I donāt think the Knots one is productiveā¦ but like run whatever you want man.