Antonopoulos has long since become a shitcoiner; his opinion is worth between zero and nothing.

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Der Ansturm auf #gold und #bitcoin eskaliert in China.

i don't even use O'Reilly books anymore, that's so 2000s :p

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Golang is so easy its like 3rd grade reading level.

learn in 5 min or a weekend.

The trees obscure the forest

A summary:

Ways to insert data:

1) OP_RETURN outputs (“nulldata”)

You put the bytes in a non-spendable output (scriptPubKey starting with OP_RETURN).

Advantages: does not widen the UTXO set; easy to detect/filter; highly visible in explorers.

2) In the witness (SegWit/Taproot) — e.g., inscriptions

The content is serialized within an unexecuted conditional (“envelope” OP_FALSE OP_IF ... OP_ENDIF).

Advantages: witness bytes “weigh 1 WU/byte” (≈¼ of a vbyte), so it is much cheaper per byte than non-witness/OP_RETURN.

Disadvantages: pruned nodes may discard old witnesses (you don't rebuild them locally).

3) Data in spendable scriptPubKey (“fake” multisig, etc.)

Like the famous case in the whitepaper (2013): bytes distributed across 947 outputs within the scriptPubKey.

Problem: if those outputs remain unspent, the bytes live in the UTXO set ⇒ unspendable until they are spent. This is the least recommended approach today.

4) Coinbase (miner's transaction input script)

Miners can put text/tags in the coinbase scriptSig (in addition to the mandatory height per BIP34).

Useful for messages or pool identifiers; not a general approach for large files.

5) Commitments via Taproot key tweak

You don't store the blob, you cryptographically commit to it (e.g., to its hash) by “putting” it in the Taproot key tweak.

Advantages: cheap and clean (no bulky data on-chain), revealable whenever you want.

Use: protocols/assets on Bitcoin (Taproot Assets, etc.).

Now come the uncomfortable questions.

Do you think spammers will use op_return if it is four times more expensive than witness? Do you think spammers will act in good faith as Core assumes? Since when do spammers act in good faith?

And here's the key: Core has given up on fighting spam, it doesn't run filters on Witness, so why run any kind of limit on op_return?

OP_RETURN is a general policy change. OP_RETURN is just one more thing, in the same way that Knots comes with permitbaremultisig disabled and Core has it enabled.

Currently, Knots filters more than 98% of transactions, while Core no longer filters anything.

Neither violates the consensus rules; they simply have different policies.

So the final decision rests in the hands of the users, knowing that the filters do work, although their effectiveness depends on the percentage of nodes that run them. The more nodes, the more effective they are, but even with 20% of nodes running the filters, as is currently the case, a percentage of spam transactions are not mined.

That said, not running filters and removing the op_return limit opens up new attack vectors.

Perhaps the biggest problem is the campaign of lies that the entire core environment has orchestrated, and obviously one has to wonder who benefits from this.

Did the filters do any harm? Of course, now they will come up with the excuse of compact blocks and mempool homogenization.

I feel this way when I see bitcoiners going to the third world to try spread adoption and create infrastructure. Its good but I just cant help but think "what are you doing there, don't you know that your own homeland is falling apart?"

Any worldschoolers on Nostr?

Why worldschooling/unschooling/homeschooling just makes sense: Worldschooling’s all about diving into real-world, hands-on experiences to supercharge learning, and what I love most: better results, faster results than regular school (that’s not difficult to beat though). To me, efficiency means everything, because my time with my kid is limited, and I don’t want to miss out on 80% of his life because of school.

From what I’ve seen, kids who are homeschooled or world-schooled often match or even crush it compared to traditional students, and they’re doing it in way less time. An individualized, decentralized approach to education is much more fun than school – and actually a real form of education and not indoctrination disguised as education.

Approximately 2 million families worldwide are engaged in worldschooling or homeschooling while traveling, according to the National Home Education Research Institute (NHERI)!

Fiat inflation depicted thru Kilowatts per hour

If you remove the limits, it can host complete images. What you're saying makes no sense. Now, to do that, you have to use additional software.

Good luck with the government. You're doing Bitcoin a disservice.

WOW, lucky you when your node is full of pedophile photos, then we'll talk about what spam is.

Filtering spam is also censoring. Now the censoring is present, it's waiting for the next thing to censor. Maybe transactions that use too much co2, that are not inclusive? Sounds absurd, but I would not be surprised.

From what I can see, none of the people talking about this understand the decentralization of bitcoin either.

Bitcoin decentralization is directly proportional to the cost of running a node. Cheaper node = more decentralization

Has no one noticed how much more computationally expensive it is to run a node since the spam started?

How many Raspberry nodes have left?

Now imagine if the restriction is removed and we allow spam.

There are people who run a node because we want to verify our transactions without relying on a third party, and we use Bitcoin every day. It is also our bank, which is why we defend it tooth and nail and do not want it to change, because we do not want to risk losing our savings.

Here, most of those in favor of spam don't have "skin in the game."

Exactly, I have got the same reaction. These guys are incredible

Should Bitcoin become more Woke? #asknostr