Zcash has a policy/protocol whereby, if a shielded pool is found to have been inflated by a bug, it may end up that legitimate coins within that pool can never be spent again.

That policy is encoded in the consensus (ZIP-209 / rule that the pool balance can never be negative).

Would you put your money there?

These are the things that the idiots promoting Zcash don't tell you.

And yes, there has already been a bug, although not exploited, that allowed coins to be counterfeited: CVE-2019-7167.

Sadly people nearly universally end up with an information diet of “left evil we must destroy them to save our country” or “right evil we must destroy them to save our country” these days. Means political violence is trending up and people not often than not can’t see past their own shoes. Not sure what to do about it, either, it’s just sad.

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Breaking: this sign seen outside the homes of multiple Core devs

I don’t disagree with much of the above. I encourage you to continue to read the New Testament to learn more about the immense nature/historical significance of this Man. Agree to disagree on the Godly part for now, but that is the ultimate question of all of our lives.

Mark 14:61-62

“Again the high priest asked Him, ‘Are you the Christ, the Son of the Blessed?’ And Jesus said, ‘I am, and you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of Power, and coming with the clouds of heaven.’”

Yet here we are.

You can say what you want. That's the point. Making a belief illegal is for fearful control freaks.

Trusting Luke as the sole engineer of your #Bitcoin implementation is different than than putting all your faith in Vitalik how?

For everyone getting on me about the OP_RETURN stuff:

I’m 100% open to being wrong, I was wrong about CTV and how I thought it could be maliciously used, but I’ve also only heard a handful of the exact same arguments about this issue for years and have been very clear why I don’t think they are sufficient and why I believe some of them are not even relevant.

• “Filters for what goes into the chain are censorship,” this is false and filtering what can be done on chain is literally how and why Bitcoin works in every way that it works. This completely begs the question about what is spam and what is an exploit, which is the whole debate.

• “You can get around it” isn’t relevant either, as standards make a difference, which is exactly why the discussion is around changing the standards. Same as someone can jump over my fence, but that doesn’t mean having one vs not being allowed to build one has no effect at all.

• “Your node doesn’t do anything,” Is the same argument I was told during the blocksize war. I’m aware it doesn’t alter the entirety of the network and it’s just my node, so don’t tell me like you’ve discovered some new information, but it is still *my* node and someone proposing to remove my control over what I should or should not accept and propagate isn’t why I run a node. I use my node to mine and wish to build my own templates. Explain how putting Bitcoins use as money ahead of as a place to store jpegs is bad. I don’t care how ineffective you think it is, but why is it bad for Bitcoin?

• “Just run Knots.” Correct, I will be now. But that doesn’t mean I don’t have an opinion about changes being made to core, and when feedback is asked for I’ll give you my honest opinion. If that bothers someone then being part of a decentralized protocol is probably not the best path for them. All anyone has done since I got into bitcoin was argue. That’s how decentralization works.

• “They paid a fee and it’s valid.” See point 1. Every bug and malicious transaction and spam in the past was always valid and paid the proper fee. Again, completely begs the question as to what is spam and what the highest purpose of Bitcoin is.

This is a conversation about the purpose of Bitcoin, and yes that’s subjective, but that doesn’t mean it’s arbitrary or it doesn’t matter. Convince me that allowing random data in unrestrained sizes will make Bitcoin better money, or the technical argument doesn’t matter, imo. Technical conversations matter only after we decide what is *worth* building technical solutions for and what the purpose of any technical change is… so again, it begs the question and comes back to the same old disagreement.

This is how I see it and I don’t see how this is at all an unreasonable perspective. Just my 2 sats

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one interesting way to mine bitcoin is to build anonymous, 0-fee lightning proxies around paid services

I think it would be cool to have a chicken coop. You could heat it with a bitcoin miner.

That's the way to do it. You get your money for nothin' and your chicks for free. 🎶