geez... are we humans getting crazier and crazier or what? We can't even have different points of view and talk, if we ever could, fucking apes. I disconnect for a few days, I need to replenish my energy.

Someone had to say it.... we are all going to die, without exception. GN

BitcoinSV (Satoshi Vision) increased the OP_RETURN size to 100kb 6 years ago - it immediately led to CP being stored there:

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BitcoinSV ‘feature’ exploited to store child abuse imagery on the blockchain

A change to the Bitcoin Satoshi's Vision (BSV) protocol has led to child exploitation material being posted to its blockchain, forcing communi...

If you are a big tree we are small axes ready to cut you down.

Unpopular opinion: Taxes are not the problem (at least if you have empathy) but corruption and the ability to decide where they are spent. Choosing where taxes are invested previously requires a system that reflects the will of each of the individuals in a reliable way.

"Satoshi added many mempool filters himself, also mentioning spam explicitly (famous Lady Gaga discussion with Andresen). Virtually all Core developers for years agreed with and built on this approach, including current champions of the removal path (you can find mentions in this sense of Sipa, Gmax, Achow), often mentioning spam explicitly, with the main exception of Todd, who for many years argued for a mempool=blocks fee-rate-based approach, now culminating in the LibreRelay fork. To some degree, full-RBF was an instance of this debate (while not spam-related) where most devs (including Luke-jr actually agreed with Todd. Slowly, more people moved on Todd side (the only explicit reference I've seen so far about the change of heart is the tweet from Achow about "growing up"). In 2021, an unintentional bug shipped with Taproot (but not connected with Taproot itself) defused one such filter (datacarriersize) for some txs. In 2023, shitcoin scammers abused the witness discount to create a 4Mb block (impossible to create with non-spam txs), using txs that *would have* bypassed the filters thanks to the bug *if broadcast* (but it's noteworthy that the spam was *not* broadcast, it was sent directly to a colluding mining pool, paid offband, so even non-broken filters wouldn't have stopped it). After that, it seems like an important priority for the current Core mantainers is to move Core towards a more LibreBitcoin-style. Personally, as an illiterate pleb who listens to podcasts, I consider the technical arguments in this sense legit and overall directionally sound, even if they don't justify the prioritization/rush, especially considered the widespread opposition by many power-users, builders, entrepreneurs, advocates/activists. Some people, including myself, are under the impression the the rush/priority is more driven by ego struggles, social dynamics and power games which have *little* to do with technical mempool policy debates: avoiding (inevitably-painful) self-reflection on the 2021 bug, justifying social proximity by many current contributors to the shitcoin scammers involved in this kind of spam (eg: Rijndael), not hurting feelings of colluding mining pools currently funding Core development but also monetizing OoB payments for spam (eg: Mara), regulating old grudges with maverick/outcast/contrarian devs (eg: Luke-jr, especially after the conflict with him escalated since the FBI hinted at a Core meetup as the origin of a nasty cybercrime at Luke's expenses), venting envy by many contributors that said maverick/outcast/contrarian devs received investment money (eg: many of them wrote to Dorsey publicly to try to convince him to remove his support to Luke-jr efforts towards mining decentralization), overall political devides (including a Bitcoin version of the overall "DEI" and "woke" related cultural wars)."

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@JaunSatoshi @adam3us @1hmle @LukeDashjr @_BitcoinCapital @nobody3638268 @eric_lombrozo @michelleweekley Satoshi added many mempool filters himself...

Do not let the fiat mentality capture you, be free. "You have 2 types of open-source developers in bitcoin open-source. The first group, sincerely believe in bitcoin mission of censorship-resistant money, but if they have a hard choice to make, i.e between independence and a comfortable salary at the end of the month, they will always take the second alternative. Let’s not make angry the corporate hand that feed you, after all. And being your own boss or in charge, that’s very scary with all the responsibilities, you know…Typically Matt Corallo. I would say that’s 80% of the contributors. The second group, sincerely believe in bitcoin mission of censorship-resistant money too, but they don’t see themselves contributing on bitcoin, without sacrificing their personal independence. It’s free and open-source code but it’s also yourself staying free in the process. The folks who prefer to stay self-sovereign on the software run, on their finance and their responsibilities. I would say that’s 20% of the contributors. The problem is when the first group, more numerous in people, are starting to instrumentalize code of conduct and moderation rules, at the demand of their corporate backers, to push out the first group out of the bitcoin development forums. At the end of the day, independent people, they might have their interests more aligned with the end-users, but that makes things slower as you know "we’re busy we have quarterly newsletter to write to our shareholders” so shut up ! (…I’ve enough friends who have been at Goldman Sachs to make an IPO if need…it’s not magic it’s just a lot lot of downsides…) In my view, you should be free to work on bitcoin open-source, without having to bind the knee or ask permission to a random CEO with a flat listed company stock price or a bullshit messiah who never has contribute one line of code to bitcoin. We reject: kings, presidents and voting. That’s the bitcoin way. It’s a hill I have no problem to fight on as long as I’ll have to."