What #Core's trying to do is basically the same as "B cash" did like a decade ago. If you want Bitcoin to be all this extra shit, go use b cash or bsv. The #bitcoin community has already had this debate. Those things already exist. People on the Core side are thus provably actual attackers - if they were genuine, they would simply use the thing that was already made for them.
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Block sizes are unaffected by any of the proposed changes. This doesn't even make sense to allege.
Yes it does. The purpose is the same.
What purpose?
The big blockers denied the reality that bigger blocks priced plebs out of running nodes, the plebs sided with core so bitcoin wins and the fork loses.
The knots people deny the reality that their filters have no effect and can have no effect without destroying bitcoin.
They will also lose. It is a much less costly loss because they are too chicken to fork and enforce the rules on block validation, but a loss still.
Core will hopefully implement the XOR PR or another solution that actually works to keep scanners from flipping out about objectionable block content.
Your blind faith is scary and suspect.
What blind faith? Either someone does or we're fucked so I hope they do.
I find it suspect that so many people are lining up to implement a "fix" that doesn't work at all rather than continue to dig and get a real solution.
Pushed with the math and facts about the code they all admit that they are still storing those blocks and they can't stop anyone. Why then?