Not the most useful analogy, but I terrible either, so if I’m trying to play along…
Should you be mad at the owner if they don’t want to rent out all of their properties to one person all at once?
Maybe, there are other customers who want to rent out his properties at the same time too, so maybe the owner thinks it’s better business to rent out each property to one customer… so the owner uses discernment and judgement to allocate their resources to more than just one customer. 🤷🏻♂️
Was just talking to some Bitcoin Spam Apologists and Anti-Filtration bros, they were telling me they had this new idea for Twitter and Nostr where every account is forced to retweet/repost every tweet they see.
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Even an intolerant minority of Bitcoiners running filters allows them to punch above their weight at low cost, while SpamScams ultimately end in failure.
Running relay filters on Bitcoin helps bring about the demise of SpamScams sooner than later— to Bitcoin’s benefit.
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Why do they care if I don’t want to relay their bullshit or if I want to take extra time to verify their block and propagate it to other nodes?
I can’t stop them from spinning up a solo miner and building their own blocks like Satoshi did.
Why am I the bad guy for simply exercising Bitcoin’s built-in checks and balances between nodes and miners??
Conflating obvious stupidity and waste with freedom to defend stupidity and waste is obviously stupid.
Congrats on your argument.
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I hate JPEGs, Spam, and Arbitrary Data on Bitcoin.
Now stop being such an annoying perfectionist and stop using relay filters on your full nodes!! 🤡🤡
Filters up my merry fellows. Just say NO to SpamScammery.
Money is Bitcoin’s Dominant Strategy.
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Abolish Income Taxes so that on chain monetary/settlement demand for Bitcoin isn’t as limited.
Filters up
Push pause on more unnecessary soft forks.
Stop being intellectually lazy about the effect of Income Tax friction on how people use Bitcoin.
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Nostr working
Bitcoin working
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No one anticipated the ways SegWit & Taproot are being abused on Bitcoin, but we can optimize these soft forks with relay filters.
All long time Bitcoiners should hold themselves accountable. We all fucked up.
None of us spoke up back in 2017 or 2021 to say “no changes needed”.
If you believe things like:
Bitcoin’s highest and best use is a generalized Database.
Spam/Unnecessary Data on chain doesn’t exist.
We didn’t made any mistakes/errors with adding functionality with things like Op_Return, SegWit, or Taproot.
Then we don’t need to waste time debating Filters.
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Do people who think Bitcoin is just a database also think Basketball is just a ball and 2 baskets with players running without purpose on a court?
Or does the word “Basketball” imply something more?🧐🤔
Asking for my friends James Naismith and Satoshi Nakamoto.
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If we keep adding new angles to Bitcoin it will become harder to see all the angles and all the new attack surfaces.
Vigilance, Patience, Conservatism, and Player Development are the dominant strategies for Bitcoin Development in today’s clown world context.
Godspeed.
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Bitcoin is designed to monetize productive Time & Energy.
If too many people abuse Bitcoin to monetize Spam, Degeneracy, and Waste, then we will drift away from Bitcoin’s Positive Sum Game back to Spammy Fiat Zero Sum & Negative Sum Games.
Play positive sum games.
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Your Bitcoin are like the plans that reveal the hidden weakness in the Fiat Death Star which can help bring Peace and Justice to the Galaxy.
And you and your Bitcoin are being chased by Darth Vader.
May the Force be with You.🇺🇸🦅🫡
Equity instruments are better Monetary instruments for Humanity than Debt instruments.
Bitcoin is an Equity Instrument that promotes Partnership.
The Dollar is a Debt Instrument that promotes Hierarchy.
Godspeed. 🇺🇸🦅🫡
You can’t stop a node from taking longer to verify non-standard transactions in non-standard blocks.
You can’t tell a node to relay all transactions that gets relayed to it. You can’t tell a node how to prioritize what it relays.
And in an ultra competitive market like mining… speed is everything…
Because if you’re not first in mining, then your last.
Bitcoin doesn’t need Op_Return or any arbitrary data people want to save on the proof of work chain to function as Money… and you should respect nodes doing what they can to limit people doing things that weigh down the chain unnecessarily— forever
We could disable the Op_Return Op_Code on Bitcoin and the protocol would be completely fine.
Don’t put the cart before the horse.
Let me tell you what I believe. I believe Bitcoin means more to me than it does to you. I believe if you’re serious about helping Bitcoin, you are going to need everyone’s help, and if you don't like it, I believe you can go to hell. Because you aren’t going anywhere else.🇺🇸🦅🫡
What people relay through their own Bitcoin full nodes and the standards they use to prioritize txs and verify blocks is their own business.
It is you 🫵🏻 who wants to mandate what nodes have to relay.
If people want to mine their own Spam with their own hash and their own templates, then I can’t stop them, so I’m not restricting anyone.
Also, if “tiny economic txs will always be more economical to make than transactions that put arbitrary data onchain” which “will be always be driving ‘spam’ transactions elsewhere” as you say…
… then there is literally no reason to remove filters.
Op_Return was a misguided gift that was unnecessary back in 2014 and is unnecessary today… might even call it a mistake…
But if you want a bigger Op_Return limit then go pivot to BCash with Roger Ver.
The Op_Return limit deters abuse by Spammers.
Vitalik was interested in building ETH using Op_Return but decided against it for reasons that I suspect had to do with the 40byte limit and the fact that Bitcoin Devs shunned his ideas. Getting rid of the limit completely is just asking for some Spammy L2 to start dumping on Bitcoin.
Finite limits are the most sensible policies for full nodes to run regarding Op_Return.
People should also take Luke’s other filtering proposals seriously to minimize other Spam abuse.
We should do everything we can to encourage constructive use of Bitcoin, not encourage degenerate vanity and waste of an extremely valuable resource.