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The explanation here on why OP_CAT was disabled is misleading. It wasn’t “developers” it was Satoshi. And nobody knows why Satoshi disabled it, because he never said.

Advocates of OP_CAT want us to believe that it’s safe. Notice that they never address the real risk - that the feature causes miners to become more centralized from MEV.

Maybe Satoshi noticed the risk to miners. Nobody knows. Regardless, OP_CAT is dangerous and unnecessary.
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Svoboda 1y ago

I thought I heard someone mention on a pod (pretty sure it was one of NVK's weekly update episodes) that he did say the reason he disabled it was he was afraid of DDOS attacks before the chain was stable? Thought he made the post on the BitcoinTalk.org forum?

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techfeudalist 1y ago

I’ve never found any quotes from Satoshi on the topic. If you find anything, please let me know. 🙏

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Svoboda 1y ago

I just did some cursory search and can't find any either. Going to try to look through my Fountain listening history to see if I can find the pod I heard it on.