Bitcoin Mechanic

You can just decentralize template construction and make Bitcoin censorship resistant again.

The contents of the blockchain overwhelmingly reflect the default mempool policies set within Bitcoin Core. This is an obvious fact. The pretence otherwise is simply due to Core developers not wanting to have any responsibility in the matter. Which is entirely understandable, but lying to justify this is continuing to destroy trust.

"Go with the flow" they said. I looked down stream and saw a pile of garbage and I assume I must exhaust myself trying to delay the inevitable.

I felt like I was reliving all the bad faith activity from Bitcoin Core over the last few years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wlNemFwbwE

110k - 120k we hardly knew ye

They made it deliberately obvious that the corpse in Epstein's cell could not have committed suicide then inorganically spread the meme that he didn't kill himself. He's obviously not dead and was switched out. Only question is - how do they get Maxwell out? Or do they just not care about her?

block 1,000,000 definitely comes before price $1,000,000 but $2,000,000 definitely comes before block 2,000,000

God damn it

If anyone wants to help us get the circular economy going in our town nostr:npub1l6f6pck9r79cdql4xccn6nmxjqacj9vwj2v3j4zmj93lfn9zulaqgdsxf2 has put together this initiative! https://geyser.fund/project/bitcoinvalleycirculareconomy

Narrative evolution in the political battle to undermine Bitcoin as a monetary network: 1. There's no such thing as "spam" in Bitcoin. Transactions are either valid or invalid. 2. OK spam exists and it's a problem but it'll get priced out by genuine monetary activity. 3. OK the trend in the opposite direction is clear, but the proposed solution of filtering spam at the mempool level does nothing at all as miners can still include this stuff in blocks regardless. (And despite the fact that spam filtration is something we've always done, it's somehow now "censorship" as of spring 2023). 4. OK filtering actually works extremely well and is basically forcing some BitVM schemes to use fake pubkeys instead of OP_RETURN which - for the sake of *maybe* preventing a few KBs of UTXO bloat a year - we need to aggressively resolve *now* by forcing nodes to relay giant OP_RETURNs by breaking the datacarriersize filter in the hopes that BitVMers use OP_RETURN instead. 5. OK yes, this is total and utter submission to the attempts to optimize Bitcoin for data storage as opposed to monetary activity as per every other meaningless crypto but hey, we are just Bitcoin Core and you can run something else if you don't like it - isn't open source wonderful?! 6. OK if large numbers of Bitcoiners actually start running something other than Core we'll simply ignore the message being sent loudly and clearly - that a growing % of people running nodes have no interest in becoming free relays for spammers and miners and that in a sane world, the default implementation puts the priorities of monetary users above scammers and even miners. 7. OK we will invoke disaster scenarios that must come from spam filtration - centralized mining, bad fee estimation, poor block propagation - combine with other fear tactics about "Knots being maintained by one guy". 8. Respond to all debunking of the above disaster scenarios with simple assertions that those who disagree "occupy something other than reality". Rest on laurels of deeply established trust of Core that it is extremely painful for people to question. Contrast all this with the "filter-boi" side which have not needed to twist themselves into Knots trying to justify the unjustifiable - 1. Spam filters work, they optimize Bitcoin as a payment network rather than a generic database. 2. If you let filters fall into disrepair or maliciously break them then Bitcoin fails the same way cryptos always do - nodes become an abused and disregarded commons while we pretend we're decentralized.

I use GrapheneOS. Can't be making life too easy now can we. Need a couple apps to just not quite work right for that extra spice.

Thank you to everyone who has switched to Bitcoin Knots.

Happy father's day!