let's look at ordinals together. have you ever seen an ordinal before? me neither.

>if filters no werk then why more OP_RETURN not happen

core accidentally enabled an even cheaper data storage mechanism in 2017 when segwit was activated. now you can stuff arbitrary data into the witness and enjoy a discount. it can also take up more than 1 MB and it always creates a spendable output. some people noticed that segwit was a dangerous mess and, aiming to avoid it and fire the core devs, intentionally caused a chainsplit before it was activated. the chain without segwit is called BCH. core devs and podcasters used lies, deception, and censorship to convince people to tolerate segwit and they used lies, deception, and censorship to convince people not to use BCH.

no matter what your feelings are, segwit led to the cheapest, most polluting, and most popular form of arbitrary data storage on bitcoin. everyone who said no to segwit is still waiting for an apology.

>buh whatabout BSV I heard it has CSAM in it cos they let big OP_RETURN

BSV is another chain forked from the BCH chain. on both chains, segwit never happened. OP_RETURN remains the cheapest option. funny how incentives work.

>that's okay because someone on twitter says ordinals are not contiguous so I magically won't go to jail

I think people who make the "contiguous" argument have never actually seen an ordinal before. don't worry, I think art NFTs are fucking dumb and I hadn't seen one either so you're in good company.

all the data needed to construct the file is split into 520 byte chunks, but all the chunks are in one transaction. above this, it explicitly marks the transaction as an ordinal and tells the file type, so there's no plausible deniability.

reconstituting the data into a regular file is simple and can be done in one line. I used txid bb6f577e30e6840dce0474f3c3c55134404688e844982a49161502d3d69e322d which contains goatse so don't do that.

grep "OP_PUSHDATA2" hex_chunks.txt | sed 's/OP_PUSHDATA2 //' | tr -d '\n' | xxd -r -p > goatse.jpeg

the amount of work you have to do to reconstitute arbitrary blockchain data into a normal file is almost nothing. stop pretending to be stupid. you have a photo of a man's asshole on your computer and you are sending it to other people.

you are not going to convince 100% of the hashrate to avoid including ordinals, large OP_RETURNs, or multisigs with bogus outputs. you have a better chance of convincing them to join the catholic church. even at 99% it could take less than a day for an ordinal to be confirmed. do you think the guy who submitted the goatse ordinal is bothered by that? if he cared he would have used ethereum. he's probably a bitcoin maxi just like you.

my point is you're FUCKED so you might as well let core optimize compact blocks and go back to talking about CTV + CSFS.

let's look at ordinals together. have you ever seen an ordinal before? me neither.

>if filters no werk then why more OP_RETURN not happen

core accidentally enabled an even cheaper data storage mechanism in 2017 when segwit was activated. now you can stuff arbitrary data into the witness and enjoy a discount. it can also take up more than 1 MB and it always creates a spendable output. some people noticed that segwit was a dangerous mess and, aiming to avoid it and fire the core devs, intentionally caused a chainsplit before it was activated. the chain without segwit is called BCH. core devs and podcasters used lies, deception, and censorship to convince people to tolerate segwit and they used lies, deception, and censorship to convince people not to use BCH.

no matter what your feelings are, segwit led to the cheapest, most polluting, and most popular form of arbitrary data storage on bitcoin. everyone who said no to segwit is still waiting for an apology.

>buh whatabout BSV I heard it has CSAM in it cos they let big OP_RETURN

BSV is another chain forked from the BCH chain. on both chains, segwit never happened. OP_RETURN remains the cheapest option. funny how incentives work.

>that's okay because someone on twitter says ordinals are not contiguous so I magically won't go to jail

I think people who make the "contiguous" argument have never actually seen an ordinal before. don't worry, I think art NFTs are fucking dumb and I hadn't seen one either so you're in good company.

all the data needed to construct the file is split into 520 byte chunks, but all the chunks are in one transaction. above this, it explicitly marks the transaction as an ordinal and tells the file type, so there's no plausible deniability.

reconstituting the data into a regular file is simple and can be done in one line. I used txid bb6f577e30e6840dce0474f3c3c55134404688e844982a49161502d3d69e322d which contains goatse so don't do that.

grep "OP_PUSHDATA2" hex_chunks.txt | sed 's/OP_PUSHDATA2 //' | tr -d '\n' | xxd -r -p > goatse.jpeg

the amount of work you have to do to reconstitute arbitrary blockchain data into a normal file is almost nothing. stop pretending to be stupid. you have a photo of a man's asshole on your computer and you are sending it to other people.

you are not going to convince 100% of the hashrate to avoid including ordinals, large OP_RETURNs, or multisigs with bogus outputs. you have a better chance of convincing them to join the catholic church. even at 99% it could take less than a day for an ordinal to be confirmed. do you think the guy who submitted the goatse ordinal is bothered by that? if he cared he would have used ethereum. he's probably a bitcoin maxi just like you.

my point is you're FUCKED so you might as well let core optimize compact blocks and go back to talking about CTV + CSFS.

you are not going to be delivered to the devil by core v30. you were already delivered to the devil in 2017 by segwit and the witness discount. luke was cheering. he cannot save you.

supply inflation isn't the same thing as centralized arbitrary control

so no,

you're wrong.

🤨

doesn't a hard cap = no elasticity ?

How the Controllers will contain Bitcoin (attack decentralization and MoE use) without heroic fights - a TLDR version

- Paperization: Deep ETFs/futures/notes to satisfy demand while pulling usage into surveilled custody.

- Tax/reporting drag: Treat any non-KYC movement as "high-friction" - 1099-style reporting, wash-sale parity, travel-rule enforcement.

- Node/Mining pool pressure: Hosting TOS, app-store policies, and insurer clauses that make policy clients the default; off-policy is niche and risky.

- MoE marginalization: Make CBDC/stablecoin rails cheaper, faster, and incentive-rich so payments gravity leaves Bitcoin as a taxable SoV niche.

- Narrative steering: "Clarity" after scares -> price pops -> users settle into paper forms; self-custody shrinks to the ideologically committed and the skilled.

In other words, contain without martyring.

- Push liquidity and convenience toward custodial wrappers (ETFs, futures, payment gateways).

- Nudge perimeters (banks/app stores/clouds/pools) to require KYC/attestation.

- Price the "sovereign" path with friction (tax treatment, reporting, limited on/off-ramps) while avoiding outright bans that create hero narratives.

This doesn't mean Bitcoin won't go up in fiat terms, of course.

What I am saying is that most people are buying gold while thinking they're buying Bitcoin.

Bitcoin is gold for most, permissionless money for few.

I don't see this trend changing as of now, however, there are falsifiers that I am tracking.

They killed Charlie Kirk because he was about to publicly convert to Islam and become Muslim #rip

citrea isn't bad. citrea doesn't insert monkey jpegs into the bitcoin blockchain. it inserts prunable zero knowledge proofs indicating that many transactions outside the blockchain happened correctly. it's an offchain scaling solution. the stuff is happening OFF CHAIN.

you can go around saying stupid things like "muh monkey jpegs" or you can read about what ZK rollups actually do for five minutes. your choice

Another LN failure.

When will they realize this is by design.

BTC has been hijacked, time to migrate to the real Bitcoin, BCH.

#crypto #bitcoin #btc #bch #bitcoincash #money #finance #tech

During Covid I was fighting with some guy on spaces and he said,

“we get it, you think your freedom is more important than other people’s lives” as if that was some sort of a put down.

I responded “Not only is it more important than other people’s lives… it’s also more important than my own life”

He was confused by that.

He could easily file me away as selfish, but not as someone willing to die for others freedom.

He considered himself the selfless one.

And tbh his moral instincts of reducing harms and preserving life were noble.

But to preserve freedom at the cost of life is the higher moral ground, because a life without liberty has no purpose.

So I told him “give me liberty or give me death and if you won’t do either at least don’t delude yourself into thinking you’re the moral one here”

Then they kicked me from the space.

I think about that interaction a lot.

Who needs financial privacy?

If you listen to the governments and the media, they'll say only the four horsemen of the infocalypse do. What about the right to privacy of ordinary citizens like you and me?

Don't miss my talk at the Oslo Freedom Forum by HRF

Node runners, what kind of hardware do you run your node on?

A. Einstein 1948