I remember when Greenpeace had that “Change the Code” campaign, and I wondered, “Man, if bad actors are starting to focus on the code, I wonder how future attacks on Bitcoin might work. It’s lucky that Bitcoin Core has been operating well since inception, but bad actors might pay devs to start contributing to Core and gradually guide the repo astray, or merge vulnerable code.”
Then when I saw inscriptions start to take off, I saw a potential attack vector from governments on nodes. If inscriptions, or other arbitrary data in OP_RETURN, contain disturbing content, governments could use it as an excuse to come after nodes (or miners too). Without a node’s ability to filter out disturbing arbitrary (non-transactional) content, they would be forced to relay it. Similar to how they came after “money transmitters”, they could then come after “CSAM transmitters”.
When I saw the lack of consensus around the removal of the OP_RETURN limit, I realized this could very well be an attack vector from malicious attackers on #Bitcoin.
I will be running #Knots.
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