Bitcoin Mechanic

Dang. Interoperability issue between LND and CLN keeps knocking my channel offline.

Heyo snobs - there are plenty of retards in the pro-Core camp too who have no idea what they're talking about. nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzqakc50pjkk0dm9dpl2mx2xjtcnduhp24z5tv0r0xlphrtd0dmsz5qyvhwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnndehhyapwwdhkx6tpdshszrnhwden5te0dehhxtnvdakz7qpqap4hdj8u23xg5p223jkknwv2wfngleqlun8v8zpwsl58yqguyggq4wg2sg

Knots:

People seems to be enjoying the lack of Knots propaganda here so I'll commit to making more effort and getting out of the twitter echo chamber.

Knots 29 is out! nostr:nevent1qvzqqqqqqypzpz8wga0s6uesj3eupvhhav9rqvpdd4yeq4rajp4x7c8ky8lqe834qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uqzprprfsrxxu069643pwgdvpj8dtxvc6t7fj0r6me94eeg8pfzutlg9szm8t

Neutral monetary network = Defensible Neutral file storage = Indefensible This necessarily means maintaining the ability to discriminate between monetary activity and file storage. This is self evidently the only way Bitcoin can realistically continue to exist without centralized gatekeepers having to moderate everything for us because we couldn't handle it ourselves.

Old methods of storing evil stuff required obfuscation: they would need to break it up into multiple chunks and reassembly would require specific software and knowledge of what the data is and how to reconstruct and interpret it exactly. The old formats looked like this: "Hi, I'm a Bitcoin transaction, here's my first output of 45 outputs - <filepart1>, here's my second output <filepart2>, here's my third output<filepart3>" along with a tonne of other stuff that has to get parsed out when processing the highly obfuscated material. This is thankfully also true of inscriptions. OP_RETURN however is just a dump for raw, serialized data. It's not the same. It says the equivalent of "Hi I'm a Bitcoin transaction, here's an unspendable output: <file> end". This wasn't a problem for tiny OP_RETURNs i.e their current limit of 80 bytes. If they're permitted to be 100kb, that's where the abuse begins. And that's the end of plausible deniability. When the stuff gets processed - which it has to be for your node to verify that they are valid transactions - then you just have a raw, unadulterated file that will trigger primitive antivirus/forensics software to alert the user: "Hi, you have CP on your computer." You now need a licence to run a Bitcoin node, everyone thinks you're disgusting if you do, and they're not even wrong. https://youtu.be/JLtmSzeLXOU