As an engineer myself I fully disagree with Adam, I believe he makes the wrong argument about hidden data. It’s more of having arbitrary metadata which is not obliged to be relevant. If you want to have best money all its components should be relevant to the core concept of money
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As a simple person who wants to separate money from state, I also fully disagree with anything Adam has said in months, maybe even years. Not that I follow the guy, but every single screenshot I see of him just reeks of either ignorance or corruption. He totally gave up on his cypherpunk status, that's for sure.
He's right. But too specific and reductionist.
You may think this is just a cute picture of Anya but in reality it's both a picture of Anya and a picture of powrina (#pow #wolpstr).
If you know what to look for you can restore it.
Similarly this may look like the nostr logo but if you know what to do, it's the animestr logo.
Anything that transmits data can be used to transmit other data than what it appears, or what its intended
Which kinda enforces the point that you shouldn't allow arbitrary data on a monetary network, no?
If I send you a transaction with 5 outputs with 83 112 97 109 32 sats respectively did I send arbitrary data?
If not, what if I send to an address such as: bc1pfaqjynpf4d7cf0h2d0cnfrsqfx74939heas83laucyak3us3vwzq8j56kd. The private key tells you to follow me on nostr.
Its anyone can spend!
I get the point you're making but that's not what I was talking about 😁 Thanks for your explanations though, gonna go to bed now. Gn