Many people telling you to “just outbid the Spammers”
… are also telling you to “just spend your Bitcoin and trigger a cap gains, income tax, and sales tax”
…and we also need CTV, Covenants, and more functionality
And also telling you filters are bad for Bitcoin.
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Block Template Centralization is the obvious threat to Bitcoin’s censorship resistance, but overt censorship like OFAC compliance is too obvious.
We would route around that.
So attackers ran a covert attack using spamouflage & spambiguity to censor Bitcoin with bullshit data.
Covid was gain of function.
Quantum is gain of function.
Non-monetary data on Bitcoin is gain of function.
Electronic Peer to Peer Cash is gain of gumption.
Study Bitcoin. https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/gumption
Trespass: a violation of moral or social ethics; an unwarranted infringement
-Webster’s Dictionary
Spam is Trespass.
Bitcoin is Money.
Spam is Trespass on Bitcoin.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/trespass#dictionary-entry-2
Would you buy an insurance policy from a company that turns a blind eye to moral hazard and reckless behavior by its other policy holders?
Or would you prefer if the insurance company tried to mitigate moral hazard and reckless behavior?
Now apply these questions to Bitcoin.
The block size limit in 2010 was for spam prevention and it was definitely not suicidal or delusional… similar preventative thinking and strategy is required today…
we need to stop being so passive… good Byzantine Generals are vigilant
Spam is slow poison that poses gradually than suddenly risks to Bitcoin.
Now is the time to Act and cut this cancer out of our culture.
Why can't anyone on the Anti-Filter side make a persuasive argument that defends Core v.30 normalizing 100kb Op_Returns + neglecting obvious Spam vulnerabilities for almost 3 years now. Bitcoin Maintainers are supposed to maintain Bitcoin. Instead, they neglect basic maintenance.
Fix vulnerabilities, maximize Bitcoin's Monetary Quality.
Maximize Bitcoin's Monetary Quality, maximize Bitcoin's Potential.
Maximize Bitcoin's Potential, Maximize Humanity's Potential.
If you know, you Knots.
Filters up.✊
There is no better way to out yourself as ignorant or malicious than socially or technically signaling support for non-monetary data (spam) on Bitcoin.
Bitcoin Toxicity implies hostility to the ignorant and malicious who misuse
Bitcoin.
Bitcoin needs strong Catechism & Deacons.
BIP-110, The Cat, The Lynx, and Dust expiry are nice options.
Luke’s reactive soft fork to a hostile Spam attack is a nice option.
Bitcoin users reserve the right to exercise consensus options.
Rug the exchanges. Rug the Spammers.
Stay vigilant. Run Knots.
Filters up.✊🏼
Bitcoiners opposing spam filters for Bitcoin full nodes is like Dutch People opposing Dikes and Canals for their Polders.
Spam filters benefit Bitcoiners like Dikes and Canals benefit the Dutch.
Cooperation despite differences.
Bitcoin Core should support filters.
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Satoshi in 2010: Oh shit, I should have included a block size limit on Bitcoin to mitigate Spam. I'll add that.
Core/Spam Apologists in 2025: You agreed to 4MB Bitcoin Blocks and the Taproot upgrade! There's no going back! Deal with it!
Do you see the difference?
Quantum FUD is a distraction from Spam attacks.
There are Shitcoin Citrea peopl like Peter Thiel, Balaji, and Voorhees at Bitcoin’s Gates who want to turn Bitcoin into a Fiat Shitcoin Spam Dumping Ground.
Fuck that. Filters up.✊🏼🫡
Theoretical Quantum Risk < Real Spam Risks
Bitcoin is Money and has options to address Quantum risks and Spam risks.
But we have to prioritize the risks in the proper order.
Addressing obvious problems > Anticipating theoretically possible problems
24-Karat Bitcoin > 14-Karat Bitcoin
Gloria ran away from Twitter.
Greg Maxwell isn’t on Twitter.
Adam Back and many other Core v.30 simps block pro-Filter advocates.
This is not what The Truth being on your side looks like.
1 BTC + Less Spam > 1 BTC + More Spam
“Fix the money, fix the world” doesn’t work if we won’t take the time to fix defects in Bitcoin.
When Satoshi saw defects in Bitcoin, Satoshi fixed the defects.
Today we see defects from SegWit, Taproot, and Core v.30 and Bitcoin users pretend there are no defects.
The Knots implementation values Bitcoin more highly than Core v.30, which is reflected in the default settings.
Filters enhance Bitcoin’s purchasing power.
But Core v.30 sells Bitcoin down the river for 30 sats in spam fees.
If you know, you Knots.
Filters up. ✊🏼🫡
A non-discriminatory cyclical Dust Busting to cleanse the Bitcoin UTXO Set of Dust/encourage Bitcoin Best Practices and UTXO Management seems like a positive sum incentive to me.
Feedback welcome.
Am I wrong to be mad the Samourai guys pled guilty and now the legal precedent is in place to go after other Bitcoin users & devs even if they get pardoned?
Am I wrong to be mad that the Samourai guys practiced shitty & reckless public relations?
Stay wary my merry fellows.✊🏼🫡
Withdrawing Bitcoin from the Exchange is the Short Squeeze.
Withdraw = Short Squeeze
Know what you own.
Filters up.✊🏼
BTC in self-custody decreases your exposure to rug pull risk.
BTC in self-custody increases Fiat Clown Lords’ exposure to rug pull risk.
Bitcoin in self custody remains the Dominant Strategy.
Rug the Clown Lords.
Filters up.✊🏼
Including fee signals from arbitrary data into your Bitcoin tx fee estimates does not improve fee estimation.
It distorts & warps fee estimation.
Filter out arbitrary noise to improve Bitcoin fee estimates.
Maximize the monetary signal to arbitrary noise ratio.✊🏼🫡
Pete Rizzo says adversarial thinking from the Knots side is introducing new attack vectors to Bitcoin.🤡
He doesn’t seem to think removing Op_Return limits or neglecting Inscription filters enables new attack vectors.🤡
Logic of Core v.30 simps is incoherent.
Filters up.✊🏼
What is with Bitcoiners who are always trying to change Bitcoin but never look in the mirror to change themselves or zoom out to see what needs changing in Clown World??
Bitcoin is the Constant.
Stop monkeying with the Constant.
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When Bitcoin Core Maintainers do stupid shit that disgraces the Ethos and Integrity of Bitcoin, they should resign in disgrace.
Like Gavin Andresen did.
Bitcoin’s current cohort of Core Maintainers have lost the plot, and they should resign.
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I still think the analogy between Power in Physics and Purchasing Power in Economics holds some water for #Bitcoin, some function of the derivative of Work over Time… but then also consider how Metcalfe’s Law, Moore’s Law, and subjective idiosyncracies factor in too.
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Configurable filtration mechanisms are fantastic for helping to maintain the quality of everyone’s Bitcoin over time.
Run Knots. Send your hash to Ocean using DATUM.
Tell the Bearded Lady and her cadre of Core Maintainers to either shape up or ship out.
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Gavin handed the Core maintainer keys over after he lost the plot.
The current Bitcoin Core maintainers should hand their keys over.
They have lost the plot.
Filters up. Decentralize the Block Templates.
Money is Bitcoin’s Dominant Strategy.
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The less Bitcoin does the more Bitcoin will do.
Bitcoin is Money. It’s not a protocol for building your Fugazi Fiat Finance Rube Goldberg Machine or a database for bullshit.
Bitcoin is Money, and some of you don’t even know it. 🇺🇸🦅🫡
The Dollar price of Bitcoin is an Oxymoron.
Money is Bitcoin’s Dominant Strategy.
Bitcoin is the Dominant Strategy.
Good morning. 🇺🇸🦅🫡
The 40-83 byte limit has been standard for over a decade.
During this time, not a single use case has emerged that creates obvious economic synergies with Bitcoin.
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