Be careful out there... The bad actors are now attacking individual Knots nodes. If you have data limits, pay a visit to the maxuploadtarget option (in the GUI under Options -> Network tab -> Try to keep upload traffic under ____ MiB per day - only in Knots)

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With not even 5 Ph/s, HMTech just found a block they created themselves! Congrats @Sapiente ! Block Height: 905115

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Long-time Bitcoin Core developer (not one of the bad ones) and US citizen Jon Atack has been detained in El Salvador. His phone and passport have been taken from him.

The sooner proposals like CTV are implemented, the sooner blocks can get smaller. Assuming of course we deal with spam too (so it doesn't just fill up the gained space) CTV/CSFS and spam filters go together

Don't let the bad actors trick you into thinking Bitcoin Core 30 allows you to re-enable the datacarrier limit: 1) Along with unlimiting the default, they also broke it further. datacarriersize=83 now (as of Core 30) allows for 83 outputs totalling 830 bytes of spam, instead of just 92 bytes of spam (9 bytes of which couldn't be arbitrary) as in Core 29 and earlier. 2) datacarriersize is marked as deprecated, and explicitly planned to be removed in a future release (likely silently, since "it's already deprecated"). 3) Core never fixed the Inscription exploits (CVE-2023-50428 and CVE-2024-34149) which allow spammers to bypass the datacarriersize limit. The only way forward now is a mass migration to Knots. Not the way I wanted things to go, but Core has given us no other choice. Once this is resolved, we should avoid putting all our eggs in one basket, and encourage the creation and use of multiple clients.

Spam apologists trying to reintroduce the Bitcoin censorship FUD painted with jargon to confuse people. Sigh Spam filters cannot be abused for censorship. It only takes 1 block to bypass attempts to censor. But it takes 1 block to make spam filters effective. Opposites.

Join the bitcoin++ workshop Livestream at 3pm Central US time (in 2hrs) for my workshop on making a new node policy https://www.youtube.com/live/J9bRVIXOhm0?si=KdsXjB8P8uUsQtfZ