Waiting for the spam in #Bitcoin to abate or doing something?

"This all seems entirely pointless to me still, because it's optimizing something that nobody seems to care about, adding new VM infrastructure, new magic system calls, yadda yadda. I was very sceptical last time, and absolutely _nothing_ has changed. Not a peep on why it's now suddenly so hugely important again. We don't add stuff "just because we can". We need to have a damn good reason for it. And I still don't see the reason, and I haven't seen anybody even trying to explain the reason." - Linus Torvalds Could you suggest how to rephrase that even better (easier to understand by any recipient), please? I would like to use it often as auto-reply.

If you must ask somebody to run a node then Bitcoin is not permissionless. Verify yourself. Deactivate spam and advance #Bitcoin. #DeactivateSpam

Fake traffic clogs Bitcoin! What do you do? Related info:

WTF Happened in Feb 2023?

A website dedicated to mitigating spam on Bitcoin.

#Bitcoin

Isn't there difference between inscribing and vandalising? What do Bitcoiners think? #Bitcoin

Should OP_RETURN be phased out in #Bitcoin?

Thank you @Luke de Wolf and @Knut Svanholm ∞/21M for the Freedom Footprint Show (npub1h727rfzm6hk9egx5yr602hxszezu0pyl2l7azwuvttlvf67uepyq559jmf). I have already listened to about 100 episodes. Very informative.

Bitcoin only and no QrYpTo.

I haven't heard complaints about #Bitcoin "volatility" for months or longer. What has changed?

Did you know the filter was relaxed in #Bitcoin Core v. 25.0 so that transactions of the size of max. 64 bytes are not relayed whereas the value of 81 bytes had been set before:

GitHub

POLICY: Relax MIN_STANDARD_TX_NONWITNESS_SIZE to 65 non-witness bytes by instagibbs · Pull Request #26265 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Since the original fix was set to be a "reasonable" transaction to reduce allocations and the true motivation later revealed, it makes se...

#FixTheFilters

Have you used Bitcoin Knots yet, @ODELL?

Thank you - Bitcoiners. Recording of the talk at the Halving Party at Bitcoin FilmFest: youtu.be/zW10cIPA2DU #BitcoinHalving2024