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It's possible to install Bitcoin Core instead of Knots on Parmanode software, but you're going to get an earful from me...
If the user ignores my warning, I'm not leaving them alone. If Core can change defaults, so can I.
Honest improvement...
There is a single click upgrade (yes, upgrade, not update), to Knots. Takes 2 minutes and the blockchain is preserved.
aaaaand, it's live.
version 3.66.0
Even if you don't need to buy a node, I invite you to come visit
http://parman.org and see how pretty my baby is.
Responsive for mobile view, best sexiest on desktop.
You wake up and 1 Bitcoin hits 1 Bitcoin.
What do you do?
Do not underestimate the damage caused by the stupidity of a bureaucrat with a pen.
Consensus lives in a network of human minds ("philosophical consensus"), partly represented by the choice of code that's run (or adhered to) by such a group, and another part unrepresented, unwritten, and sometimes not apparent.
It's NOT the code that's in charge, with the ideology being secondary (subservient to the code), it's the exact reverse.
One example of a hidden fracture in ideology was when big blockers and small blockers shared the same general ideology and were in consensus according to the code, but there was a fracture that only became apparent in 2017, and the code changed for each group to reflect their ideology.
Currently, a new fracture is appearing.
On one side, people believe stopping spam is censorship (even though the purpose of fees is to limit ddos spam attack, not stop).
On the other side, people believe Bitcoin is money first, and storing data is a byproduct of that function, not a primary purpose, and so it's not censorship to limit spam.
Just because the code can't enforce this ideology precisely, doesn't mean we change our ideology (it's like changing documentation to hide a bug).
These two ideologies are why the change to Bitcoin Core is contentious.
Without understanding this difference in ideology, there's no point trying to have logical debates.
It's not easy being on the side that defends making it easier for CSAM to be relayed through everyone's node, for some imagined/debatable benefit (i.e. less miner centralisation).
It's time to take a good hard look at yourself and accept you were wrong. If you weren't taking a side, it's time to step up.
You don't have go deeper into Core Derangement Syndrome ™.
Just switch to the correct side, and join us calling out the stupid arguments of Core Groupies.
This is not a Knots vs Core debate, you don't have to like Knots. It's a "Core is wrong" debate.
Bitcoin Core will be used as a mule for free, unstoppable CP/CSAM by sickos or state actors, in order to attack Bitcoin and prosecute those who knowingly allow it.
This is the attack...
Once op_return is removed, plain JPEG images (not part of multiple fragments inside scripts that need to be pieced together and decoded, but plain JPEG/GIF/MP4) will be sent through your Bitcoin HardCore node version 30+, from one paedophile to others, possibly sold (Knots runners won't touch them, ever). Your Core node will happily pass it along, providing anonymity to the criminals (or state attackers, or Epstein's old clients).
They will pay a well below market rate initially (eventually zero), and never even need to get the transaction mined - key point. The original filter that Satoshi introduced, FEES, will be effectively bypassed...
After some time, these low-fee CP/CSAM txs will be dropped by Bitcoin Core nodes, but if they don't, the sicko(s) can do an RBF of the transaction (or if they have chained them, an RBF of a single low-fee unconfirmed parent), to cancel and invalidate the transaction so they don't have to actually pay for any of the downstream higher fee large transactions.
They will have successfully used your computer to transfer and potentially sell horrible images, without paying (so forget "filters don't work, they'll get on chain anyway"), thanks you being complicit, and thanks to all the Core devs who allowed this in. And those gaslighting against us saying this is wrong.
Then public opinion will turn heavily against Bitcoiners, if it isn't bad enough now. We already know it's going to get worse as most miss out.
@adam3us has pointed out, incorrectly (I'll explain), that this attack can't work, because of some "package relay". Sounds like this is a filter to stop RBFs of a parent if there is a long chain of transactions dependent on it.
A clever idea, but it can't work, Adam. Do you know why? Because your resistance itself is a form of FILTER, and FILTERS DON'T WORK, remember? You can not use an argument against us if that same argument is used to defend yourself.
An attacker can get their cancelling RBF transaction mined by going directly to a miner. Then the scumbags get away with using your Bictoin Core node for CP/CSAM transmission - it's irrelevant whether it gets on a block or not, it doesn't need to, the paying paedophile got his images.
Ironically, filters not working is the very reason we need filters.
There are 3 solutions.
1) Bitcoin Core reverses this STUPID rushed decision, introducing completely unnecessary risk to Bitcoin.
2) We all run Knots, and it becomes the reference client.
3) We move away from Core to Knots, and maybe others will pop up, and there is no reference client, meaning fewer meaningful changes to Bitcoin become likely.
Bitcoin doesn't need changes; it needs general light maintenance, so just maintain it, don't change it!
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If you want unstoppable data, instead of spamming world money, just run your own NOSTR relay.
ParmaKnots menu choice, 2 min to set up.
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If you want to be serving for a bigger audience, maybe even charge a fee, you're going to need a bigger boat...
ParmaDrive with 16 TB.
https://parmanode.com/parmadrive
Today on "Old man yells at society" ...
Self serve checkout at Safeway, staffed by 5 people ushering people to checkout... "Paying by card?"
STFU, everyone is paying by card, you're just in the way.
Just make each machine accept card or cash and you save paying the salary of five people.
They tukerrjowbs!!
I think we shouldn't get sucked into the distracting technical debate about OP_RETURN -- there is a principle that's at stake:
Do not make meaningful changes that nearly all users are against, for debatable marginal benefit, EVEN IF it's "better" technically.
That's not your place, nor your role, open source developer.
Satoshi gave Bitcoin to humanity so we all own it. You are putting your speech on OUR PROPERTY; you are a steward, not the boss.
As people migrate away to other versions, it becomes clearer to see that the consensus rules are no longer in the Bitcoin Core code as they once were (reference implementation). They are now in all our nodes, all agreeing with each other's DNA expression, with the resulting phenotype being the timechain.
To come to understand this, consider if Bitcoin Core changed the consensus rules unilaterally - that can't change what all the users run, where the true rules are.
And so, the more diversification away from Core, the less of a central point of failure/attack it becomes, and the better for Bitcoin.
Everyone should celebrate the reduction of Bitcoin Core as the first choice of Node flavour.
Core groupies are spending all day on Twitter fighting... but why? Why do they care? Why are they seemingly so coordinated? It would be a far more natural a response to not care and let people run what that want to run. Something is fishy about the behaviour.
"Oh, it's not your property, you can just fork, or make your own version from scratch"...
EXACTLY. You can only pick one...
1)
Bitcoin is not all our property, we can all fork or use Knots (OK, then why are you fighting on Twitter with Knots users? Why are their nodes being ddos attacked? What's the incentive?)
2)
Bitcoin is all our property and you fucked up.
Bitcoin has reinforced my natural tendency to not trust or believe anyone as a baseline starting point - I remember once being criticised as a 9 year old by a friend's mother, and that incident only struck me today. "Why do you always respond with disbelief when you're told something? It's not very good to be like that you know?" - Fucken hell, woman.
Anyway, I have applied this mentality to varying degrees throughout my life, not by choice, but just being myself.
Initially not strongly enough in my career, but always quite strongly applied in the area of music and #piano. There was so much contradiction, so much that sounded like nonsense, and wishy washy explanations - IMO, the gifted do what they do without knowing how, and they are not particularly gifted necessarily at explaining biomechanics.
Then there are others who observe the gifted meticulously, and come to conclusions, but fail to understand or accept that there is a massive invisible component, and so imitation won't cut it.
Then there are others who develop a system of teaching and sell courses and trademark the systems - while getting results for some, it's not universal, as they are merely imitating and only approximating the gifted.
Excellent results come from years of practice with these methods, despite a gifted 6 year old who takes only 6 months.
Something is missing.
This was what I came to believe a couple of years into my youthful quest to play like the gifted - I was prepared to work for it.
It was about 30 years ago, when I switched from playing organ (for 6 years) to piano, and began my journey of piano-technique discovery.
Fully untrusting, I set to work, learning music, but also meticulously documenting in a journal my technical discoveries, descriptions, and tests/experiments. Looking back, the things my teacher told me actively were the opposite of what I needed to do to "find" good form.
I read a lot on what many had to say, but I always tested, and generally assumed it was wrong.
Mostly, what I read opened my eyes to contradictions, and some recommendations prompted me to think of new things.
I think I've explored nearly every turn in the maze - so much has been discarded though.
Now, I think I've got it. I don't think anyone else knows what I know, as there wouldn't be more than a handful of people who are so untrusting as I, nor determined nor interested to do what I did.
Problem is, I have this knowledge now, and no one to teach. I don't particularly want the life of a piano teacher.
Tip 🔥
If you're thinking about buying Bitcoin, but looked at the price and it's gone up a bit too much recently, and it feels too expensive at the moment, try this simple trick...
Buy it.
There are plenty of reasons to be in awe, can you feel it?
Why aren't you constantly violently sick in your stomach that you, your parents, your grandparents, humanity, all worked their butts off, and central banks just print their money out of thin air for free, and tell you with a straight face that it's so you can have a job, and keep prices stable.
MOTHER FUCKEN WHAT?
Buy #Bitcoin to destroy these fuckers, and then we also incarcerate them all for good measure.
If you are given a Lightning address as an invoice, now you can pay it even if your wallet is retarded and doesn't know how to handle it...
1) Update Parmanode to version 3.64.1
2) Tools menu, choose Pay Lightning
3) Respond to questions (lightning address and amount)
4) Capture the invoice text or QR to your wallet
5) Pay
6) Go buy those sats back, we don't spend bitcoin around these parts.
You're a fucking retard -- experts say.
ParmaKnots dot com has a privacy policy which is implicitly accepted by you if you buy anything at all, or even just browse the website...
"PRIVACY POLICY: Your data will not be shared with anyone under any circumstances - those asking for information or wanting to buy data can fuck off."
https://parmaknots.com
ParmaKnots has good code.
https://parmaknots.com
Switzerland is a waste of energy. It could be used to mine bitcoin instead.
