Very true.

"Bitcoin is simultaneously very conservative and very rebellious."

Erin.

Influencers and Celebrities are the Cancer of our Societies. Period.

After nearly four years of studying Bitcoin I can say this honestly: nothing in my life — no book, no movement, no ideology — has challenged my intelligence and worldview as relentlessly as Bitcoin. Just when I think I’ve grasped the shape of it, the system reveals another seam: a new debate, a new protocol nuance, a new set of questions that push me back into research and into the long, patient work of understanding.

What hooked me was simple and domestic. I was talking with my mother about gold — how for centuries people dug it out of the earth with shovels and picks, then built ever more complex machines to do it better. I asked her: in a world full of distributed computers, of global networks and proof-based work, isn’t it logical that we’d build machines to “dig” a new kind of gold? Her answer was immediate and clear: yes. We shouldn’t be digging in the ground anymore.

That moment — a small, ordinary exchange — opened the door. Bitcoin began as an idea that made sense at a single glance, then unfolded into a rabbit hole of surprising depth. Consensus stopped being an abstract political word and became a question of what reality we choose to enforce. Relay policies, tolerance of minorities, the mechanics of difficulty adjustment, the fragile discipline of running your own node — all of these are not mere technicalities; they are living arguments about trust, power, and independence.

Self-custody turned from a slogan into practice: cold wallets, hot wallets, BIP39 seed phrases, passphrases — each a ritual that forces you to confront responsibility. The more I learn, the more the system asks of me: to verify rather than to accept, to read rather than to repeat, to engage rather than to spectate.

Bitcoin is an intellectual ecosystem that refuses simplification. It sharpens the mind because it demands humility and constant learning. It makes you suspicious of easy narratives and encourages the habit of testing claims against observable reality. And it changes the way you look at everything else — money, institutions, history, and even ordinary conversations at the kitchen table.

I’m still early in this journey, and that’s the point. The learning never ends. Every new problem is an invitation: to read, to question, to argue, and — if you want to call it that — to be reborn, a little bit, by what you discover.

Masters of PsyOps they are.

REFUSE AND RESIST.

She is so beautiful :)

No.

Even with OP_RETURN, the data is still just hex unless you intentionally decode and render it. Bitcoin Core doesn’t suddenly start “displaying content in your face” just because the limit was raised.

You still need tools (or scripts) to parse and interpret the data - just like you always have. The node doesn’t care what the data is. It just sees bytes.

Raising the limit doesn’t change how nodes behave. It simply allows for more bytes in a null data output. The default policy is still conservative, and content isn’t displayed unless you go looking for it.

But people care and changes on protocol level take ages to go through. That's the beauty of consensus of node runners.

Then you don't understand what self regulating mechanism is my friend. The name says it all: self regulating.

The only true, protocol level, self regulation in bitcoin is consensus and fees.

We all have the same tools. If you’re asking why Core made changes like relaxing relay limits on OP_RETURN, go read the actual discussions. This didn’t happen overnight — it’s been openly debated for years. But those debates happen in the places where devs build, not on Twitter or Nostr.”

• Bitcoin Core PRs & Issues:

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pulls

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/issues

• Mailing List (Bitcoin Dev):

https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/

• IRC Logs (Technical meetings):

https://bitcoincore.reviews/

You people complain and claim that bitcoin core did not communicate this right. As a node runner if you want to participate in bitcoin development you need to be where discussions happen.

People love Bitcoin for being decentralized — until it feels inconvenient.

Then suddenly they expect devs to ‘explain themselves,’ like it’s a subscription service.

Bitcoin is an open protocol, not a company. If you want to understand it, show up where it’s built. Nobody owes you a push notification.

I don't have a problem. Just told you your understanding of self regulating mechanisms on bitcoin are wrong and in the end you filter shit because those tx's once mined still end up in your node.

Do what you wish with your node.

Yes but that is not self-regulation of Bitcoin. That is not consensus and fees based trust less self regulation.

This is you regulating your node, applying tour own filters.

And those tx's still end up in your own node once they get included in a block — even if you initially filtered them.

In short:

You can’t keep them out forever — unless you fork.

No - that’s you regulating your view of the network.

Bitcoin self-regulates through consensus and fees.

That’s the only form of self-regulation that matters at the protocol level.

Everything else is shadow-censorship and if enough nodes adopt the same filters, it stops being personal choice and starts becoming de facto control.

That's why Tolerant Minority matters.

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Huge congrats! That's master level.

Me since 1994.

How many years?

Uffff relief..first normal knots user I meet.

All I met till now were freaks telling me:

YOU CORE PEOPLE WANT TO SUPPORT CP ON THE BITCOIN BLOCKCHAIN.

On X some of them straight report normal node runners preemptively to FBI.

Sorry. This is sick movement and that sickness started from top down..from Mechanic and Luke.

You don’t see the essence of it?

Who decides what’s “freedom” and what’s “hate”?

Governments and media.

They don’t want society to self-regulate they want control.

They reward, they punish, they define the boundaries of speech.

Now ask yourself:

Who gets to decide what is and isn’t spam on Bitcoin?

Knots want that role.

They want to be the gatekeepers.

But they forget something fundamental:

Bitcoin already has a trustless, self-regulating system: fees and consensus.

That is the law.

That is the beauty.

So when you import the logic of the broken world :the logic of filtering, judging, controlling into the most neutral protocol ever invented…

You don’t protect Bitcoin.

You turn it into something else.

Something dangerously close to the very thing it was built to escape.

Trustless Systems vs. Top-Down Control

What makes Bitcoin so powerful is exactly what our current political systems are missing:

a trustless, self-regulating environment.

Bitcoin doesn’t need gatekeepers to decide what’s good or bad, what has value or doesn’t.

It runs on clear, simple rules — enforced by consensus and the fee market.

If a transaction follows the rules and pays the fee, it belongs.

No moral judgment. No authority filtering it. No exceptions.

That’s a huge contrast to the world we live in — where governments get involved in everything,

telling us what’s “safe,” what’s “true,” and what we’re allowed to say or do.

They claim it’s for our own protection.

But what they’re really doing is trying to control the flow of truth, ideas, and behavior.

They treat us like children:

“You can’t be trusted to self-regulate. Let us decide for you.”

But here’s the reality:

What they call “hate speech” only becomes a real crisis when they amplify it — through their media, their platforms, their algorithms.

If left alone, most of it dies out on its own.

Society already knows how to filter what it doesn’t accept.

We do it every day — on the street, in our families, in our communities.

We don’t need a “Ministry of Speech” telling us what words are too dangerous to hear.

Bitcoin was built on the same idea:

Open systems work best when they’re free to self-regulate.

Not when they’re ruled by fear or filtered by someone else’s standards.

So when developers or node operators start acting like authorities — labeling valid transactions as “spam,” deciding what “belongs” on the network,

trying to draw moral lines around Bitcoin — they’re not protecting the protocol.

They’re importing the exact same top-down thinking Bitcoin was designed to escape.

Bitcoin isn’t a moral playground.

It’s a neutral, trustless protocol.

It lets everyone in, even the ones you don’t agree with.

That’s the whole point.

So you oppose labeling speech as “hate,” because you understand how easily that leads to censorship by those in power.

But then you support labeling Bitcoin transactions as “spam,” even when they follow consensus and pay fees, simply because of their content?

It’s the same core issue:

Who gets to decide what’s acceptable in open systems?

In society, it’s supposed to be collective human judgment — not state-enforced definitions.

In Bitcoin, it’s the fee market — not a handful of devs or filtered relay policies.

Open systems self-regulate.

If we start pre-filtering based on fear, optics, or personal values, we’re not protecting freedom — we’re rebuilding the very control structures we claim to resist.

Shameless Zionists take-over or a normal situation?!

You need to chill and gather your thoughts I can't understand what you mean. Relax.

I was asking about your vision of bitcoin values and bitcoin history. I am curious what you think..honestly. I learn all the time. Even from people who disagree with me.

It's pretty simple. Tx's that pay fees belong to the network.

What bitcoin is...that is far more complex topic.

One way or another Charlie is one big PsyOp today, used to put streets on fire around the globe..scary and fascinating at the same time..like they need 24 hours to make him a martyr on level of Luther King...which is absolutely crazy.

Bitcoin is a cypherpunk technology.

SimpleX I ment.

What exactly are those things people say he died for?

Gm

Looks interesting. Have you tested it?

Dope

Not worshipping anyone but Andreas knows a lot about how bitcoin network works and how decentralized networks work in general.

Where you get your knowledge about bitcoin mechanics?

His Mastering Bitcoin is still a giant and valid work.

Classic War for Territory

Yeah it is pixel art. And whether you like it or not, CryptoPunks are a staple of on-chain pixel art culture, just like Idiots are now becoming on Bitcoin.

If you’re truly into pixel art, it makes zero sense to dismiss these as “high-time-preference repetitive NFTs.” That’s just lazy framing.

You can dislike the market, the hype, the meta - but to deny the cultural and artistic significance of CryptoPunks or Idiots is to ignore the fact that on-chain pixel art is a distinct art form in itself.

So the question is: are you into pixel art? Or just the kind that fits your worldview?

It’s pretty shocking that you see devil now but can't see the devi Israeli Child killers and genociders in Gaza. This is the root of all things fucked in this world. People mourn when system tells them to via traditional media.

68000 murdered Palestinians, among them infants under 5 year old - 380000.

Fear of Israel and Zionist is great.

Dm?

The CP-on-the-blockchain argument is just recycled FUD. It’s the same scare tactic that was used against Tor, end-to-end encryption, Telegram, and even Bitcoin itself back in 2013. They said the same thing every time:

“Terrorists will use it.” “Criminals will abuse it.” “It must be filtered or shut down.”

But here’s the truth:

🟧 Criminals already have better tools—encrypted drives, dark web forums, and private servers—none of which require a public, traceable, expensive blockchain.

🟧 Bitcoin is terrible for hiding anything. Every sat, every transaction is recorded forever. That’s the opposite of safe harbor for crime.

Yes, open systems are messy. But the answer isn’t to filter at the protocol level. That’s not protection—it’s a backdoor for centralized control.

The moment we let fear dictate what’s allowed on Bitcoin, we’ve handed the narrative to the same forces Bitcoin was built to resist.

Freedom tech is resilient because it doesn’t rely on permission. It runs on incentives, not fear.

Brilliant thoughts!

Onboarded a friend to Bitcoin today—not with promises of getting rich, but with the truth: this is freedom tech. When the world moves to CBDCs and digital banking clamps down on human freedom, Bitcoin will be the escape hatch. It’s the most robust decentralized network we have. Future-proof sovereignty.