Do you really want to play the censorship victim card?

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Give the man more followers! View quoted note →

Without further context, I would read this as: don't doxx your customers on the blockchain unless you're able to delete every copy of it. I.e. don't put other peoples data on the blockchain. Which in my opinion includes forcing customer to do a satoshi test. Or encouraging them to reuse addresses. Looking at you, Travel Rule... View quoted note →

This could become a problem:

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If you're an EU citizen you can give the European Commission feedback, in your language of choice, on their Orwellian, albeit not very concrete #DemocracyShield It's not a proposed law, more like a policy direction. My main concern is that they're going to use this to institutionalize and expand the ad hoc ban on RT. So I wrote in my feedback that I find such censorship unacceptable, but otherwise they can do whatever.

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

European Commission - Have your say

You can just maintain your own fork of Bitcoin Core. Ask @Peter Todd for tips. Or run Knots which has all sorts of mempool purification features. You can't force volunteers to maintain therapeutic features. View quoted note →

Actually* negative electricity tomorrow for three hours. You know what to do. * = even with the €0,12 energy tax. Yes, you have to pay a tax even on negatively priced electricity. Yes, you have to pay VAT over this tax. Because government. They do build nice roads though, no potholes.

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If you're going to reorg a block because its content is evil, or just doesn't obey your favorite new soft fork rules, please put its hash in a coinbase OP_RETURN of your alternative block. That proves you saw the block but chose not to accept it. As opposed to just having missed it, as with a typical stale block. Call it a Bad Uncle block? You could even do this with weak blocks (reduced proof of work) if all you have is a BitAxe.

In case Shanghai Jiao Tong University contacts you from a dot com domain, it's probably not them. https://www.reddit.com/r/shanghai/comments/1k7lfib/comment/mp4frum/

The concept of a “prerogative state” that operates in parallel to do the dirty work, is an interesting concept. Recent news of ICE trying to arrest someone in a court room and then arresting the judge from trying to prevent that, remind me of this. That said, the El Salvador gulag still has a lower death rate than Nazi concentration camps - so let's not get too carried away?

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