It’s go time bishes.

They are available and some are turned on as we speak

Not particularly. But it is easy to run a concensous forks like knots that has the filters in it. So if you would like to filter your mempool, then you can easily run knots.

I don't understand why we give everyone a wall by default. This still allows for everyone to build their own wall as high as they want to. It just makes the default no wall. Making the repo more maintainable and putting the whole debate over how high the default wall should be.

I’m not a fan of allowing additional data. That’s why I’m a fan of the block size limit.

You prune immediately, even during syncing.

No.

Spam/excess data effects node runners. Node runners are the people who voluntarily run nodes to enforce the rules of the network, without them you don't have decentralized enforcement of bitcoin rules. More data means more storage space required on the node. Keeping it smaller allows the average person to run node, right now we're creeping over 1TB so those who haven't moved to 2TB will need to upgrade. SSDs are the best option, but they aren't cheap and they blowup every so often. If you want to go all out and protect your node data then you need 2 for RAID and that's gonna get pricey.

I still don't quite get why this extra data can't be put on an L2 that people can choose to run or somehow linked to the main timechain instead of directly on it. It seems messy with people just triyng to jam it in instead of getting a better solution.

1) They do pay a transaction fee.

2) Nodes can be pruned.

The block size limit helps keep it decentralized.

Remind me again why people are so up in arms about spam on the timechain?

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Sad but true.

"Miners can just put malicious stuff in blocks, so disallow nodes from having any say over whether or not they can reject that stuff from their mempools."

Wakey wakey everyone.

The heart of the issue with Bitcoin Core is this: They are seeking to disallow Bitcoiners any means by which they can decide what does/doesn't end up in their mempools.

This is a critical and almost-never discussed aspect of what makes Bitcoiners sovereign.

You are not running a free service for miners where you must seek and relay to them whatever pays them the most.

Your node is yours to do with what you deem appropriate.

Awesome, is it then also good practice to have this as a separate receiving wallet, I.e. one that does not receive KYC bitcoin bought from exchanges?

Hi 👋 Jeff! Loved this episode and wondered if you could elaborate a bit more on what you mean with economic nodes vs regular nodes and how you spend your sats if most of the goods and services don’t really accept BTC or lightning payments?

I would really like to spend and replace, but can’t see the possibility yet in my country (NL) 😬🙏👍