In just a few years, bad actors shielded by a strangely docile #Bitcoin Core have transformed its immaculate ledger into the most expensive open sewer in history.

The playbook was diabolically simple:

Exploit known protocol loopholes that Core refuses to close, and spawn a parasitic zoo of degenerate shitcoins (Ordinals, BRC-20, Runes, NFTs whatever this week’s scam token is called).

Then flood the chain with fiat-funded garbage inscriptions until the cancer is too big to remove without “breaking compatibility.”

When the maximalists who spent a decade laughing at Ethereum’s clown casino finally screamed foul, Core’s response was the now-infamous:

“What is even spam?”

And, with the solemnity of a priest blessing sewage, Core shipped v30, handed every grifter on earth an industrial excavator, and rebranded the resulting stench as “freedom,” “innovation,” and “adapting to the new culture.”

Look at the numbers. They don’t lie: almost 40% of the entire UTXO set, created in barely two years, is now cartoon apes, pixelated cocks, and immortal trash.

This isn’t the beginning of a beautiful new ecosystem. It’s the opening act of a hostage situation.

Those “88 million inscriptions” that supposedly paid 7,000+ BTC in fees? Not organic demand. Obvious bribes, fiat conjured out of thin air by entities who face no budget constraints, funneled straight to miners to launder vandalism into legitimacy.

Anyone who thinks infinite-money printers will ever be stopped by “market forces” has traded adversarial thinking for bedtime stories.

There is no real community here, no lasting economic activity, no future, just a giant pump-and-dump dressed up as culture.

The handful of true believers clutching their sacred JPEGs don’t need protocol changes. They need therapy.

When pushback finally arrived, Bitcoin #Knots, sensible BIPs, #CAT, actual attempts to defend the original protocol, the mask slipped completely.

Overnight, the people defending sound money became, in the ultimate rhetorical nuke, “Nazis.”

And so, in this newly confused ecosystem poisoned by the woke mind virus, the official position of the now-known-as “Coretards” became:

“Because someone might misuse a scalpel tomorrow, we must let the gangrene consume the leg today.”

Saying “this is spam and it should be addressed” is apparently the real attack on freedom.

Bitcoin Core didn’t just make a technical mistake. It caught the civilizational mind virus that teaches societies to celebrate their own decomposition and to crucify anyone still sane enough to point at the rot.

That’s not hyperbole. That’s the autopsy.

We all have to take a step back and acknowledge the level of delusion on display:

The suicidal overconfidence of Core loyalists convinced they represent some silent majority.

Core should have shut this NFT circus down from day one. Now their credibility is gone.

Coretard is their legacy.

--dewmap

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“Because someone might misuse a scalpel tomorrow, we must let the gangrene consume the leg today.” 👏

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don't know if this is true, but it's the core argument between libertarians and limited government advocates

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Unfortunately I think this is not far from the truth

Just passed 6 posts from people complaining about bitcoins price performance (that probably have no idea about this)

Thank you for calling it as it is

This kind of sabotage is completely expected and should be considered the kid gloves phase. The people in charge of the world would rather you had actual nukes than Bitcoin. Incidents like this should be almost embraced and used to practice, prepare and strengthen ourselves. It should be used as an opportunity to practice zero tolerance towards things that are truly unacceptable.

if you care about bitcoin , this is too interesting and important not to read... is it surprising that an attack vector would be exploited to weaken the ecosystem? no... so it seems prudent to pay attention.

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Nicely said! I'd say one of the worst things about the Core loyalists is that they only care about some silent majority in the first place. They don't think for themselves, and it's why they are so gullible.

yeah, and i'd just like to remind people that jb55 is one of these loyalists. the shit he vomited onto nostr during the filter debacle was absolutely vile.

Yup!

It’s hilarious when libertarians are forced to confront the consequences of their beliefs