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Shitcoining on bitcoin has existed for over a decade and isn't going away. OP_CAT doesn't uniquely enable anything more, its just a scripting proposal that enables covenants and lots of other stuff.

Current bitcoin is moving towards custodians as scaling solutions which is the opposite of what we should be doing. Covenants are a good option for trying to scale this and OP_CAT is probably the most general covenant we could get.

OP_CAT was removed from bitcoin because there was no limits on it, that could have caused DoS vulnerabilites. Bringing it back with a limit (or with GSR) would be great imo. I don't think bitcoin would be dead if satoshi instead added a limit to OP_CAT instead of disabling it.

:P 1y ago

Go build this crap on bitcoin cash with Roger ver and everyone else who thinks they know better than satoshi

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sudocarlos 1y ago

What? Satoshi made a great thing and maybe could have continued making great contributions, but i wouldn't assume that only he knows what's best for Bitcoin going forward. It's an open and decentralized protocol. Whats best is whatever increases adoptions with the least impact to bitcoins strongest properties including decentralization and fixed supply

:P 1y ago

What happened to “You don’t change Bitcoin, Bitcoin changes you”

Just a couple short years ago Ben thought Munity was a good idea, now it’s a dumpster fire. We don’t want that to happen to Bitcoin.

Bitcoin at its base layer works and is completely fine. Go fuck around and find out on a layer 2 solution and if that’s not enough GFY and go build on a fork of Bitcoin.

sudocarlos 1y ago

Im not advocating for changing bitcoin, just pointing out that satoshi left, bitcoin has changed and the people using and developing it now are who matter.

Re: op_cat. I think the great script restoration makes sense and a lot of smart people are interested in op_cat. It's definitely beyond me, but if enough devs think its a good idea then lets see what happens.

However, i dont think everything that can be done with bitcoin as it is today has been explored and that should happen before it's changed

Ben Arc 1y ago

Nah, it's an evolving working progress, always has been. To survive it must continue to improve.