not talked about nearly enough.

⚡️🔐 NEW - Tether announces the launch of PearPass, a peer-to-peer password manager.

The application does not rely on cloud servers, with all credentials stored locally on users' devices and synchronized between devices via encrypted peer-to-peer connections.

PearPass is open source and has undergone an independent security audit by a third party.

where my authentic humans at?

Going on the street to "protest" is really dumb and useless. The best protest is just using Bitcoin as much as you can and boycott the govs and banks.

The definition of the word “protest” means a statement or action expressing disapproval of or objection to something.

Within the legal system, this can be in the way of a written declaration, typically by a notary public, that a bill has been presented and payment or acceptance refused.

The word Protest is derived from the Latin word “prōtestārī” meaning “to declare publicly” and the root word “testārī” meaning “to testify” ergo Pro-test means to “testify publicly”.

However as “the public” has now become a controlled jurisdiction, to “protest” is no longer a right, but a “privilege” that can be revoked at any time by those who control the “general public”, “society” or “community”.

Furthermore, the very action of protesting indicates an obligation to adhere to the very issue you are protesting against.

This is why so many protests and petitions are organised and funded by the very corporate organisations you are protesting against, such as “big oil” and governments.

In simple terms you are accepting the “corporate authority”, and by protesting it you are strengthening it.

Here is a very good explanation by Robert Menard about why people should NOT protest but do something else instead:

> Have you intentionally left out the UTXO bloat part?

I am only aware of one protocol that stores meaningful amounts of data in outputs (Stamps), and they have openly said that they do so in order that the data cannot be pruned. "Inviting" those people specifically to use op_returns -- i.e. the very people who have said they don't want it -- seems like a poor reason to relax the filters. Instead, it seems like it will just invite more op_return spam by people who previously wouldn't have done it at all.

> what about miners taking the junk txs directly from the issuers?

Miners who include privately-submitted transactions in their blocks have a higher orphan rate, because the rest of the network propagates that block more slowly than blocks containing only publicly-known transactions, as nodes have to download/validate the privately-submitted transactions, which were not already in their mempools. The extra time they spend doing so gives that miner's competitors more time to mine/propagate a competing block at the same blockheight. This is part of why private mempools typically charge a higher rate: the extra cost compensates for the risk of losing money through an orphaned block.

Widespread mempool filters thus modify the economic incentives that apply to miners: they can certainly receive filtered transactions via a private mempool service, but their incentive is to make it cost more (which is what we antispam people want), and they may even refuse to do it altogether if it causes too many orphaned blocks. E.g. we saw Mara Pool and CKPool both stop mining subsat transactions because doing so increased their orphan rate too high.