It's really disturbing when developers are getting arrested for building free and open-source software.
The US dollar is backed by cocaine you see.
Would it be better if some significant hashrate were excluding the 💩 data to lessen the short term impact of fees on most users?
It would work practically like a second mempool queue. The "money maxi" miners only validating the "money transactions" in their blocks. I have no idea how to incentivise the good behaviour though. If I was a miner I'd just want maximum block rewards, and if theres less competition for the juicy scam-filled blocks, that creates the opposite incentive...
Or is intervention worse than letting nature take its course?
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Why not just move the road?
"Lightning doesn't work"
"The government is shutting it down"
"It's being captured by the powers that be"
I see fud in my feed.
I think censorship is ok in some circumstances. Like, rather than your young kids being exposed to trannies dancing about in thongs for example. I think most people would agree?
Some people get touchy like it's the thin end of a wedge of totalitarianism when talking about nodes censoring traffic that annoys them and directly affects their ability to transact and use bitcoin.
My view is you can't / shouldn't stop people doing what they want works both ways.
If you're in the minority on an issue and how you act on it affects the majority negatively, sometimes it's tough shit & gfy when you get put in your place.
Trivial to verify if it's real
Authority decides who owns what.
When the biggest guy in the room says "that's my seat", that's the biggest guy in the room's seat. When somebody has a gun and says "that's my seat", it's the person with the gun's seat.
The authority on bitcoin is the ledger. Rather than something centralised like a government body or court.
Bitcoin doesn't decide who owns what, it is just the enforcement of mathematical rules and we can derive ownership from them.
Ownership is just a social construction.
Social constructions can be important.
Very small kids have a really hard time understanding ownership / sharing / borrowing. When they want something, they just want it, and cry if they can't have it or it gets taken away from them.
So, if you're the only one with keys to bitcoin, you own that bitcoin. Nobody else can feasably own that bitcoin without getting the key from you.
Transaction fees are always being driven to zero by miners, no matter what we throw at bitcoin in any short or sustained length of time because...
Time is infinite; so block space is infinite, not scarce, stupid.
This was also true with smaller blocks.
You are crazy enough to try.
That was about halflings, not halvings.
It's all about GMT anyway
How tf am I supposed to sleep