i don't think it's miners. i think it's shitcoiners like ethereum, avalanche, polkadot, etc

segwit was a trojan horse that opened the gates to spam, this was an effect that was not expected by anyone at the time.

since core devs are a major cohort in the BIP process, they are one of the groups that has to be subverted also. so, we have two things going on here:

- make small node runners nervous to run nodes, so they won't be part of the UASF

- subvert the standards organisation that defines the bitcoin protocol, to inject a maliciously crafted upgrade

probably they are also part of why the numbers of node runners is increasing as well, in addition to more people getting onboard with the knots and running a node when maybe (like me) they stopped running one.

i'm gonna resurrect my node and put it online soon because i can see what they are preparing for here.

this is an attempt to turn bitcoin into ethereum, and when i look around at the big names in bitcoin dev, a lot of them are suspect as well, and liable to be able to be induced into cooperating.

even the attack they are doing on small node runners is exploiting otherwise disinterested people who are prone to trolling, to join in for the fun of a pile-on. like damus dev Will, who is chanting the core mantras vigorously, but i doubt that he realises they are exploiting his hipster jerk personality.

this is the main reason behind the attack on core and bitcoin:

nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqnyqqft6tz9g9pyaqjvp0s4a4tvcfvj6gkke7mddvmj86w68uwe0qyg8wumn8ghj7mn0wd68ytnddakj7qgwwaehxw309ahx7uewd3hkctcqyp0htdecwypeerj2zn8u74hy8a3thvxjhh5pgfz5dr6avf2k88feswuur3s

UASF user activated soft fork.

this is where little node runners have an effect on bitcoin.

it's how segwit got through instead of forking the chain.

the essence of their attack on bitcoin is to scare small node runners away from performing full network service by making blocks unpalatable. they are muddying the waters to increase uncertainty. the attack won't work to impact bitcoin, per se, because big miners can't be risking liability any more than they already are. but driving node runners off the p2p network will reduce their influence on governance of bitcoin when they conveniently roll out a new USAF to "solve" the problem, they will get what they want.

maybe someone should invade the police chief's home

if he shoots then he's breaking the law by using police equipment off duty.

neither OP_RETURN nor witness data can be left out when propagating blocks, as they are part of what is hashed in the transaction to generate the merkle tree hash that sits at the end of the block header.

nobody with a brain wants to store bullshit data for free for anyone else. it's miners and shitcoiners who benefit from it, the former temporarily with fees, the latter, by degrading their competition.

that's called "OP_RETURN" which is a terminal UTXO (can't be spent)

witness data is another matter. this is a scar that bitcoin acquired in the blocksize wars. it was a mistake, they should have just used schnorr signatures, like we finally have with taproot, that complicates it and obscures the fact it's just schnorr signatures. (tweaking is purely application level matter, the chain only sees a schnorr pubkey). we can deprecate it in favor of taproot. it takes up less space so the benefit is cheaper transactions.

removing the 80 byte mempool filter on OP_RETURN won't lead to as much spam as the witness data can (due to the 4x lower price), but removing the user's ability set a limit at all is malicious.

i would appreciate it if you would not lie to someone who genuinely wants to know, because either you do, and are intending to confuse my friend, or you don't, which means you are an ignorant disinformation replicator.

either way, go fuck yourself, goat fucker.

the threat of CSAM content being put on #bitcoin is not so much a threat to the little node runners.

it's a threat to the big mining corporations with all kinds of compliance requirements with government regulations due to their corporate registration.

the #coretard crowd are trying to spin this like we are pussies for not wanting to host this garbage on our nodes. that's a misdirection. they are trying to reduce the centralization of the network, which largely is created by small node runners.

the feds aren't going to come for your bitcoin node. they are going to go and issue subpoenas and arrest people at Foundry and Antpool.

that's the thing, if you can filter them from your mempool, that's a starting point.

the other point is i don't see how registered corporations with big mining operations are going to be interested in minting blocks with this trash in it either. it could blow up into a serious liability for them.

the feds aren't gonna come after you. they will go after the big miners, that's where the money is.

yeah, that's why they are doing this, to try and centralize the chain so they can take over. that's why they have bought off all the core devs, thinking that they are the most important devs in the bitcoin world.

i'm not concerned about this kind of nonsense. i live in the boonies and nobody's coming for me. but big miners will not be so safe. so i doubt it's going to progress much further.

when i saw this i thought of you :) you must feel honored to have a maxi critter modeled after you

not gonna get over it. gonna keep pointing out that bending over and letting the child rapists have their way is not ok, it is cowardly and wishy washy pathetic weakthink.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42235-024-00624-1

more science coming out showing that being exposed constantly to radio frequency pollution is bad for your health. it DOES promote cancer, just not the same way as X- or Gamma rays. it disrupts the rhythms of your endocrine system, which cause the immune system to malfunction.

this is why i have earthing mat under my computer and sheet on my bed. when you are earthed, your body can pick up the natural rhythms of the resonant cavity of the atmosphere, that is driven by the spin of the earth and the fluctuations of the sun.

they built a radio emitter that mimics the frequencies of radio waves found in the schumann resonance, and found that it increased apoptosis of cancerous cells. these are very slow waveforms, in the subsonic range between 4 and 20hz, and they act as an external clock trigger for natural cellular processes, the most important being the one that causes cells to suicide (apoptosis) - in most cases, cancer starts from cells that are past their use by date and have corrupted DNA and start to fail to perform their normal actions, but continue to consume resources (cell walls are an independent organism that DNA controls, and they are the main consumer of sugars and minerals).

the byzantine empire was a very important centre of learning back in the day. it pretty much went to shit when the ottomans took over tho.

all of the catholics i've met have been pretty based. one of my neighbours in my previous place was this awesome kind but quite straightforward lady who was always telling me about how mean her cousin, my landlord, was. haha.

they totally win at being more based tho. and their churches are both more beautiful and more modest looking

yeah, they at least aren't polluting the blockchain so much.

i have no idea where this reputation of Go comes from. or why so many people think C++ or Rust are so great. they are bloated, slow compiling, hard to read, ugly languages. i compile my code on a 1gb memory VPS, the rust relay and strfry both require at least 16gb of memory, or more. i tamed it to use only like 8gb by forcing it to compile single threaded. 11 minutesfor the rust, 9 minutes for c++, and my relay compiles in 45 seconds.

*if* it's real *then* it's some kind of cannibalism ritual.

the way i learned it was based on the text which says "eat and drink in rememberance of me" and i connect it to the thing of blessing the meal as being a variant of the same ritual of gratitude.

transubstantiation is not merely rememberance it's something more like frankenstein reassembly.

the pseudo-bitcoiners arguing for eliminating filters are just warming up for arguing in favor of expanding the non-bitcoin transaction content, and this is an attack on the small node runner and miners, and an attack on the decentralization of bitcoin. the reason why they don't get it is because tehy are of the school of "leave it to the professionals" when the WHOLE POINT of bitcoin is "don't trust, verify" and maximizing the number of participants in the consensus.

the CSAM part of the debate is about which players in this game have an incentive to degrade the reputation of bitcoin. those are obviously competitors to bitcoin, and the number one competitor to bitcoin is the JPM/Consensys backed Ethereum project.

it is true that the content requires special tools to decode, but all binary data requires special tools to decode, even text requires a mapping between ascii/unicode and the glyphs to render text to a screen, but this doesn't change the fact that such data is displacing legitimate transaction content of private individuals making payments and managing their L2 systems, so filtering helps lower the clearance time of legitimate transaction content. transactions themselves also need "special software" to decode, so this whole line of reasoning is a dead end, and does not clear the spammers of their indictments.

and it's a very good reason to oppose anyone promoting non-monetary transactions on bitcoin, because they are going to use it to scam and defraud users with their fraudulent proof of stake and mutable governance of protocols that is the base nature of all shitcoin chains, trying to dress scams in the legitimacy of registered financial operations that are themselves also, in fact, fraudulent and malicious to most people stupid enough to participate in these "markets" of manipulated, endlessly debased tokens (stocks, bonds, smart contracts, all the same if you ask me).

btw i found your post because i'm building a simple nostr client component for my job and i wanted to elaborate the explanation for why the #coretard crowd are wrong. i've been thinking a lot about it and i really don't see how corporations engaged in bitcoin mining would want to get tangled up in arbitrary CP jpegs being uploaded and minting blocks with this trash in it.

this dramatically reduces the incentive of the majority of large miners to support the core position, and it hints at the idea that the backers of the Core Corruption is ethereum types who want to harm the reputation of bitcoin, and/or turn bitcoin into ethereum. neither thing are going to happen, because anyone who wants to participate in the on-chain shitcoin casino can just use ethereum. maliciously manipulating bitcoin to be degraded in reputation is a weak way to promote a shit product, by trying to basically defraud users.

yup. filters are about users having influence to prioritize propagation of non-spammy transactions, not eliminating them

the whole thing is absurd because you transpose the context to social media and they are basically saying everyone should be instantly seeing fraudulent posts instead of maybe examining them and deciding not to show them.

they will still get on the database, it's true, but actual transactions important to the majority of users will get a better chance of being stored sooner as a result.

resistance to allowing bitcoin to become a smart contract platform will continue until every path that closes the gate to spam is eliminated and finally the consensus rests on the idea of deprecating segwit and OP_RETURN. eventually it will reach a point where spam-propagating nodes are banned from most nodes p2p peers lists.

why am i so confident this will happen?

because bitcoin mining is a legitimate business now and it is in their interests, despite the short term loss of transaction fees, prevents them from becoming liable for publishing legally harmful material.

OP_RETURN is sufficient for layer 2s that want to do rollups and other similar things. they don't need to pollute the blocks with more data than their asset token references. the reality is that there is only one blockchain with immutable reliability, and ultimately these shitcoin L2s are just as trustworthy as companies leveraged up to the gills with fiat loans. the history is clear, over and over again, that casino chips as a business model is not a place that people should be trying to save or hedge against inflation. they are the CAUSE of it.

yeah, coretards don't think of that. some miners are just after as much TX as possible but some may actually have to answer for minting a block they haven't made sure has shit in it.

that's the thing, photons don't have mass. neither do electrons. or at least, not normally. EM drive experiments suggest that there may actually be a way to make electrons into some configuration where they have mass because they were able to bump a pendulum with the beam from one that was in vacuum, where there could not have been mechanical transference force, or any other particle but the electrons emitting from the resonator.

it was the em drive that started me on the idea that gravity is in fact mediated by clouds of these special configurations of electrons. and so they would also distort the velocity of photons as well.

the idea that intergalactic space might mean light speed is orders of magnitude faster than we observe here, throws a monkey wrench into the works of estimating the size of the universe. you CANNOT measure distance without triangulation or firing a projectile into the distance and measuring the time. and even then, even at the ranges that snipers shoot, the bullet path, and velocity, and air resistance is affected so much that at the longer distances it's likely to not even be the time you estimate because you assumed uniformity of conditions over the flight path.

same thing would apply to light, i think, since gravity changes the velocity.

we can be fairly certain about distances when we can measure them by parallax, to triangulate them, but at a certain distance the parallax differential is not even computable (think like doing math with numbers that require exabytes to represent the precision). let alone the device measuring the angle, that's probably way more limited.

so, how do you anyway decide how far away something is just by the light it sends back to you, if you don't have parallax? the motion of the objects would serve to help bring some ratio to it but even that would fade to zero beyond a few galaxies deep.

this whole train of thought has totally broken my brain though. since we know that light travels slower the more matter is near it, the speed of light MUST be higher between galaxies.

the idea i have about the invisible clouds of ... well, strange electrons, being the mediator of the effect of gravity, they have mass, so it is entirely possible that our measure of light speed is completely wrong with regard to intergalactic space (the voids between galaxies). it is possible that light speed is WAY faster out there.

this is probably how we can see so far at all, since most of the space between is so "thin" that actually our estimate of distance is also wrong.

eventually the "muh adoption" crowd are going to realise that nostr is resistant to forming a global

the only good sauce bottle is the ones with the tapered conical nozzle. you have to buy the bottle separately and get bulk ketchup with the wide mouth to fill them.

why anyone is surprised is kinda hilarious. for hundreds of years cooks have been using bags full of viscous materials (eg icing) with conical nozzles for precision such that you can write with it and construct sculptures. no coincidence either that the conical opener is also used in 3d printers and high pressure cleaners.

i'm gonna try and vibe that extra feature, and also check to see if there is a settings storage event and add this configuration to it so the setting reasserts when you log out and back in

also, there is still an issue with the code, probably, it still shows replies to muted users, but it hides the preview, you just see the PFP circle and it's a bit confusing. i probably will work on it a bit more so it hides those whole replies as well.

this is called concern trolling.

oh yeah, the whole thing of "traveling indefinitely in one direction" is a problem because of light speed. if the lightspeed itself is caused by the expansion of the universe (they are based on the same thing) then you are actually doing a Red Queen paradox by going as fast as you can, to actually stay in one place.

and another implication of the expanding universe idea i have, is that actually, you are actually in the same place always, but you are removing space from in front of you when you move around, and putting that space behind you.

i still haven't thought about a falsifiable experiment to prove this, i'm sure there is a way. the thing is though, if we really can see so far into space, then either the expansion is nonuniform, or it isn't expanding.

i had some dick trolling me about these ideas i have, as it's foundational to some ideas i have about how to control gravity. i'm not selling some book based on my half baked theory, it's my life's passion to figure out gravity.

like, one way that might resolve this issue is if that matter itself causes space to expand, but then i don't know how that would even work, but i know there is some esoteric branches of quantum physics involving dimensional manifolds, that might explain it.

i just don't have the time to dedicate to actually working on it, and i'm quite shit at regular mathematics. i can do math in programming code but the ideas i'm exploring blow up to such stupendous numbers so quickly. maybe some day i will learn how to do regular math lol. i understand the shit but i can't fucking read the formulas.

yeah, like mises said, it's a philosophy of envy, and i'd just add it's based on pride and narcissism. socialists are almost all narcissists. toxic waste.

explain to me what kind of humble human being uses a handle like that?

should i call myself "Uncle Jerkoff" to help you love me?

bafflement is a red flag for malicious disinformation (and the dupes who re-propagate it).

"bullshit baffles brains"

stop thinking about it. run your knots, and turn off that channel. they are trying to distract you from your job.

nah, i'm pretty sure back in my day blue meant "homogenised" which meant it was blended hard so it emulsified. the gold caps they had a chunk of cream/butter at the top of them and would accrete that over the few days after it was delivered.

then there was skim, i forget what color. red maybe. it was basically the gold with a mechanical filter to remove the solid cream out of it.

idk how "skim" became normal. but it had something to do with selling palm oil, or sunflower oil, or chemically extracted olive oil.

my red line is where it stops being money and starts being a generic database.

right, so, as a bitcoin node runner, i should be happy to transmit spam. got it.

where is your red line? homo porn? snuff?

this is the problem with freedumb relays. if you don't have to auth to use it, you don't know who is reading your events.

you are doxxing yourself all the same with your reqs whether you auth or not. relays ARE trusted middlemen, so you should be selective about which ones you use.

the client is the weakest link here. i don't know of any client that has relay blacklists, for example, or for that matter whitelists. it would thin down traffic a lot also, for those follows with a bazillion relays in their list. besides all else, many relays are streaming events to other relays anyway so very often you can actually find all the events in like 3-5 relays and except for posting to inboxes it shouldn't be using anything else. really, outbox model should be mostly for DMs. the kind 1 should be very narrowly constrained.

oh yeah, that's the thing. "black market" includes stolen goods and criminal services (carding, hitman, debt collector, etc). so i don't support that, just the stuff that is government monopolies on things that would be legal with license.

also, i call bullshit on the thing about credit as money being ok, credit, debt, two sides of the same fiat coin. so long as there is a monopoly on issuance of credits there is an asymmetry in the power relations and theft can be achieved without any obvious trace of an attack having taken place. that's why bitcoin is so important (and i can tell that you are a chia fanboi because you mention proof of space/time, which also will not scale because state sized actors with their credit money can monopolise the required "space and time" access through their monopoly on money.

you have to be uncompromising about the hardness of the currency supply. it's a slippery slope that is absolutely not a fallacy. it's like the path to sexual assault, starts with bawdy expressions, continues to unwelcome touch, and then to rape, very quickly.

it's a false dichotomy because there is a spectrum between open and closed networks. he doesn't mention authentication and paid services as a DoS and spam mitigation method. he doesn't mention simple stuff like temporary IP blocks for short term attacks (bitcoin's p2p network has this).

everything except for securing the money with PoW is a futile effort, just look up Bitmessage in the history. it is never going to work because if it becomes valuable to bypass it, there will be ASICs for bypassing it, and regular joes won't be able to crunch smaller message hashes than asics can, we already saw this game play out (and why i wasn't a maxi until the death of PoW in about 2019)

these proof of shit things don't do shit. it's a lot of watts wasted for nothing, because you can just have a permissioned system much simpler, and in the end proof of stake and proof of space/time stuff is ultimately vulnerable to all kinds of attacks, most of them not mathematical. proof of stake is completely vulnerable to determined attackers and they then become the threat in the system (i saw this happen in 2016, the bad guys know very well the power they get by early adoption and using their early adopter power to make the network favor them).

as for WoT failing, bullshit. it hasn't hardly even been used in email at all. it's just too easy to inject yourself into people's networks with all kinds of social attacks. it really doesn't scale beyond dunbars number, and everyone in the village has to be extremely skeptical of everyone. really you shouldn't even bother using it without actually physically meeting and there signing your attestations. but as one measure among a palette of options, it is a good way to build a base of confidence in a user not being malicious.

ultimately the best solutions involve subscription access to data storage and relaying on the network, because you can't game money. which is why the money is also so very important, it's the number one security mechanism, combined with authentication.

unfortunately most of the bobbleheads of nostr don't think that paid subscriptions and auth are good because it "closes up access to newbies" bullshit, because the walled garden app stores are doing perfectly fine with subscriptions and advertising and multiple tiers of privilege.

which is why i strongly agree with the point about this black and white absolutist thinking. nostr as a protocol does not have an opinion about any of these things. thankfully. unlike pubky, which is married to peer to peer network systems, and mastodon and bluesky which are married to pyramid federations, and shit like that ethereum social network, which is now pretty much ded, and always was rubbish, based on the IPFS consensus algorithm which doesn't scale. or the ethereum proof of stake bullshit, which also doesn't scale and is a false image of open, because the top stakers are in control of the consensus rules.