I would rather put the onus on the publicly traded miner corporation with a board that accepted the transaction out of band on the hook, that any solo or pool miner being forced to include it.

But that's just me.

Some people seem to want to argue that there is already CSAM in Bitcoin's blockchain. This is false. Bitcoin today does not support images at all - only arbitrary data up to 80 bytes (or 95 in the coinbase).

Exploits like "Inscriptions" work by _misinterpreting_ script code, and _bypassing_ existing policy rules. They are not actually storing images, but merely putting gibberish code on the chain, which they later themselves (not Bitcoin) _misinterpret_ as images.

This distinction is very real and relevant. If you don't differentiate between "data that can be misinterpreted to produce CSAM" and "data that correctly interpreted displays CSAM", then literally _all data_ is CSAM, with _no exceptions at all_. This tweet would be CSAM. Google's logo would be CSAM. Your phone's operating system would be CSAM. Literally anything _can_ be misinterpreted as CSAM.

Historically, Core has only advanced non-controversial changes with broad consensus. Core v30 breaks that pattern. If you don’t think that sets a dangerous precedent, I don’t know what to tell you.

Really? 80% of the network running on a software that potentially could kill BTC?

Filters are useful. And even if they weren’t, I’d rather have node runners decide than a small clique of Chaincode Labs devs. The fact that Core is forcing this change despite the controversy around it is very telling.

plain old vim. used to use neovim but it was buggy

What the… maybe they fixed it

i wonder if this why damus doesn't work with primal nwc. maybe they only do nip44?

This why I’m patterned side down, when you fold back the sheets/comforter you see the pattern!

You going back tomorrow for Weezer? My highschool version of me is bummed I’m not going.

I suppose it's possible, but it's reflective of the "users that disagree with us don't know anything" attitude from the proponents of this change.

If we were having a real, serious conversation, it would be not be at this level, it would be about what we think Bitcoin really is. Is it a monetary network or is it something more? Do spammers have as much right to Bitcoin block space as monetary people? (I think you said opined on that in a reply to something I said on X a week back)

I think that's the conversation that we should be having not this "let me explain this to you the 10th time so that you'll agree to this proposal you think is bad." It honestly comes off as a bit patronizing, which, to be fair is a lot better than the utter disdain from a week ago, but it's still not ideal.

Cat and mouse games sound futile, until you realize that you catch a lot of the mice.

I can receive them, but simply not propagate them or put them in the block templates i make while mining.

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

i’ve taken up rowing as my secondary exercise to complement my primary of walking. it’s full body, low impact, meditative, and actually useful.

What benefits would this bring? All I see is increased risks from dataloss and random mints going away, and makes it harder to self custody. We have an NWC interface, which mints should support, that is the interface we are happy with.

I talked to the LDK team about a built in wallet, definitely want to if it has good UX, but will likely just do coinos wallet first.

Would love to see a marketplace notedeck app once we make it easier to make those.

Yeah but your opinion is actually worthless contrasted against that of the cult and ex cult members, mine too. We simply don’t have as much skin in the game.