“Price is the ultimate filter,” they say — and they’re right.

So why not raise the bar further? Force them to pay miners out-of-band, making their activity even more expensive.

My phone is on greyscale mode.

I temporarily reverted to color mode to watch this!

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This stopped me from scrolling further and went on with reading about this ship.

Good idea!

Just caught up with all the notes posted since I last scrolled through my feed.

I’m not full of rage, I’m not full of hatred, I’m not triggered.

GN, fam!

How do you show love to a woman? You cook for her.

#foodstr

This was a great episode on the OP_RETURN controversy.

https://fountain.fm/episode/twR9XdpCO0yoMTSQUGPj

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If I follow some so-called maxis on X, and over time they turn into spammers, filling up blocks with their dick pics, X won’t even show me their new content once they reveal their true colors—because the algorithm assumes I’m not interested in pro-dick-pic content. So they stay on my following list without me realizing it. That’s unfortunate.

On Nostr, though, if I follow someone and they later reveal their true colors, I see their posts in the order they’re relayed to me. I notice the change—and I can unfollow them right away.

GM!

Let’s go get some steak for breakfast.

WoW!!! I hope they make a tour to Poland 😍

We’re gonna see you there :)

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It would be great if Sparrow added some public Bitcoin Knots nodes. This would give users who don’t run their own node the option to connect through public Bitcoin Knots nodes.

@craigraw

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Honestly, a bad trip scares me less than that does!

#psychedelics

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Bit it increases the cost of running a node for a node-runner who wants to have an archival node.

@Sjors_Provoost is one of the best educators in the Bitcoin space. While I strongly disagree with some of his points in this OP_RETURN episode (see my last 2–3 rant notes for that), it’s still a highly insightful listen—like every episode of Bitcoin Explained.

https://fountain.fm/episode/EyMpDXlQIL1W51z5y566

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“People can spam the blockchain anyway!”

Sure—but then what’s your objection to making it more expensive? If spammers have to pay miners out of band to get their junk included, wouldn’t it work as a deterrent?

Just curious—can you still embed non-transactional data in a fake public key that pretends to be part of a multi-sig, but is actually, say, the Bitcoin whitepaper?

If that’s still possible and it bloats the UTXO set, why open the OP_RETURN floodgate that invites even more spam onto the blockchain?

If you say cost isn’t an issue for projects like Citrea, then even Bitcoin’s ultimate filter—fees—won’t effectively limit their transactions. They can simply pay a miner to include their non-standard TXs with oversized OP_RETURN data.

But cost in fact is a filter, and the more expensive the spam, the more efficient the filter.