What surprises me about the tech and developer discussion around embedding data onchain (and OP_RETURN is just a corner of that), is how little of the discussion refers to the ethics.

There's an obvious point, and an obvious (in my opinion, incorrect) counterpoint.

The obvious point is that permissionlessness is central to Bitcoin's nature, and that implies *ethically* you cannot tell people what kinds of transactions are OK, and what are not. There are very substantial *technical* arguments as to why it can't really be prevented, but they are secondary to the ethical one: you don't have the *right* to tell people what transactions they can do.

The obvious counterpoint is that posting anything to the blockchain has a cost for *all* users. That's why we spent 4 years arguing about the limit on the size of blocks. I have no ethical right to tell someone not to publish or mine a block of size 10GB, but it doesn't take long to realize that the costs this imposes on other participants, is too large. In case you think, this argument was straightforward, the big blockers were wrong, don't forget that the resolution, for better or worse, was a compromise: average block size today is often 2x the size before. It was a really difficult argument.

So the counterpoint wins and we have to discuss whether embedding data should be allowed? I say, no, this a fundamentally different discussion. It is not a discussion of *how much computational resource is used in total*, but rather a discussion of *what individual users are using the computational resource FOR*, and that crosses the line into being ethically unacceptable, unequivocally.

I say that the technical awkwardness, or even impossibility, of restricting this behavior in the Bitcoin system is just a byproduct of trying to make Bitcoin do the opposite of what Bitcoin was designed for - censorship resistance.

So because of bitcoin core devs Bitcoin is over soon, do I have this right?

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Separate the art from the artist. Love the art, not the artist.

Like the fact the CIA invented bitcoin!

People get confused by the mere presence of server and think centrization, not connecting that censorship can be performed directly on any #Nostr client itself.

Full stack clients like #Primal are going to leave UI-only clients in the dust.

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Unfortunately, primal still doesn’t support NIP-42 authentication so filter does not work at all. They are one of the only clients that doesn’t support this.

In addition, primal doesn’t read from your relays anyway, only their caching layer so the use would be limited anyway.

Been taking my coffee black for months now (trying to lower calories) and I still hate it, gfy to everyone who pretends this is the way, bitter bean juice

Light roast Kenyan or Ethiopian specialty coffee, carefully handbrewed with V60, ground at the spot, weighed and timed just right ... No sugar, milk or anything, just coffee and me. I live for that shit.

Try going to an unbearably hip indie coffee shop and see if you like theirs.

CORE or KNOTS

No I'll give you my opinion.... These AI's don't know Jack didally squat!

If you really wanna be sigma bitcoin core is the way!

Core looks like too much of an easy target for influencing.

Everyone stand on morals but some times organized people with Altearier motives and play the long game and try to manipulate and take advantage of you.

This Luke its easy to keep tabs on him and see what's up... But with the #core devs it's like we don't know who's in their ear? Who's in their POCKET? so that's way I would tell users give #KNOTS a shot. If you CAN do it... Its most likely gonna be better for future proofing.

Am I wrong? Please explain. #ask nostr

I'm installing it on a test rig, it'll take another day or two to sync. If you want to wait, I can let you know how it goes.

Battler to my left #core battler to my right #knots

Who's going to win?

Yes

Explain please not following what is this merge?

Yes, the Bhagavad Gita quote is spot on and is intuitively true to me - that consciousness is eternal. It makes as little sense that our consciousness 'appears' when we are born as it does that it disappears when we die.

(Also why I reject the idea that consciousness can 'emerge' from a machine, as the 'AI' cultists believe, but that is another matter.)