Who in their right mind would start saving in #bitcoin today, if they knew how the forces within Bitcoin apply nowadays ? Does anyone still have enough confidence, trying to orange pill their entourage ? I am up to my neck in bitcoin. My life savings are in there. I am not going anywhere. I’ll drown, and sink with the ship (before ever having the luxury to invoke a boating accident 😉). But Gosh, is it bad what’s in sight…. #op_return

#slipstream was bad enough. Big, paid-for by their customers, files could be shoved into a block, regardless of your relay policy, BUT they never touched your #mempool , and they were "curated" by #mara . But #op_return up to 100KB will be something else : 🧨 Big, serialized, ILLEGAL, files, will linger (for free) in all the mempool of all non-filtering nodes in the world. (NEVER MIND if they never get into a block…). #bitcoin will become a free, uncensored (so much for "censorship resistance") file transfer network. Congrats #core !

Running #knots ! (was running a filtering 27.1 Core instance until today, but from now on proudly signaling one more Knots-nodes to the network). Still won’t stop a big miner to insert a large scale, serialized, illegal turd into a block, and my knots node to validate it, but at least, I’ll have my #mempool and my conscience clean. #bitcoin

If you are running #knots, you are the resistance. #bitcoin

Oh don’t worry ! Core devs are reasonable people, they wouldn’t hurt #bitcoin on purpose for immediate miner gains ! plus remember, the nodes are the bosses, they rules, they decide what version of the software they run. So we’re safe ! Bitcoin is CULTURE vs MARKET.

100.000 bytes of trash. #op_return

How cool is my node ? #bitcoin #noderunner

So which way is the swarm heading ?

I am my own counterparty risk. #bitcoin

Can’t get enough Bob Burnett and Bitcoin Mechanic these days… But it’s making me anxious of BTC future.. Why are their topics not debated more broadly… ?

H, just a little bitcoiner here… #introductions