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Nothing about this situation is an emergency. Get a grip.

A reorg is actually not for the longest chain, but the chain with the most hash. that doesn't necessarily mean it has to be the longest chain

The argument fails where it implies legal liability for other people's actions. I have not looked at 99% of the blocks in the chain. No idea what is in them. Don't care. Not liable for their contents Its like arguing that I am an accessory to money laundering bc one block contains money laundering transactions

Go ahead and fork, guys. Let's see how long a mutable chain survives in the market. View quoted note →

one suggestion Matt: price movements during block size war, ¿ should it be a reference for spam war now ? tks

This soft fork orphans any new csam-containing block that gets mined by having miners hash on the previous "clean" block. This effectively bypasses the csam block by creating a longer chain of clean blocks and leaving the csam block (as well as the miners revenue) orphaned and forever discarded by node consensus. This will signal to miners that allowing csam-containing transactions in their mempool will corrupt their changes of having other miners on the network accept and mine on their block. View quoted note →

Minor correction: If a block is deeply embedded in the blockchain it can be removed with a soft fork, but this would result in a chain split. Chain splits can result from both kinds of forks.

"BIP-444 will immediately activate" meaning a trusted third party deciding what is "bad"? Hard no for me. Fork off with that shit.

That's not what it means. It means we stop storing all large data on Bitcoin, of all sorts. Nobody decides on a case basis what's good or bad.

I am not a lawyer, but wouldn't you also need to delete the illegal data? This would be impossible to comply with as a Bitcoin node runner. You need an intact blockchain to run a full node. Scary situation if so.

The irony there :D So we have to immediately cleanse the blockchain of illegal data because if we do it much later, we show how we can remove illegal data ... slowly ... I suppose? The emergency fork part is total madness. It **will** get tested given how much money there is at stake. Short Bitcoin -> mine CSAM -> profit! But I guess it will get tested in a more nefarious way: As we cannot "watch CSAM" (and talk about it) without incriminating ourselves, this also works: Short Bitcoin -> claim CSAM was mined -> profit! They are talking about immediate re-orgs. Total chaos because of maybe a judge sharing Luke's view about bytes on the blockchain.

Would be healthy for regular forks, this would strengthen bitcoin

Time to clean the streets before it gets worse. Plebs will win.

"let me tell you about something disturbing in a soothing voice so you won't ask questions later"

The voice is good. Always liked his style. Not sure why he's all fight-or-flight now.

"There is no chance that Foundry or MARA choose to build on CSAM-chain. Once Chinese mining pools understand this They too will defect to the non-CSAM-BTC-chain" and there it is – bip444 is a literal 51% attack View quoted note →

money

He’s a coward

If the illegal content was in the prunable part of the ledger ie the op_return people could run nodes free from content. The real issue is that these clowns think blocks every ten minutes with 4mb max is a viable data storage strategy. These are not serious people.

I run knots, but I am not not ready to put any support behind this BIP. I don't want non-monetary data on Bitcoin. More research is needed on my end, but I think this could be a mistake and it doesn't sound great at first glance. Move fast, make mistakes... don't make a similar mistake as Core!

Agreed, I wouldn't activate it as is either but I think it'll be discussed and improved in the next months.

Thank you so much for your work Matthew. Your knowledge and insight are always mind-blowing, and delivered in such a calm and grounded fashion. Huge respect for you brother.

Appears I'm not the only one.

At least that is the point of a BIP, but if they're just going to run with scissors as soon as something unwanted gets into a block... then...

This one is a must-watch. Discusses the possibility of a soft-fork, BIP-444, and the implications of the op_return changes in Bitcoin Core 30. Very interesting. View quoted note →

You're so desperate that you're telling people you expect BTC to go to $500,000 if this fork activates? 🤣😂🤣😅😂😂😂

better 1 sat = 1 cent to easy math 🤣

Because fiat is all that matters? #btcfail

Truly interested to know if you have any suggestions or recommendations. How are some, like Kratter, so concerned, while you are staying nothing about this situation is an emergency!

Where is the "we don't want to change Bitcoin" mantra? How many more of your principles are you going to compromise on in order to get more engagement to your "content"?

This content is in reaction to a change he opposed to begin with. If change is not desired, and said change happens anyway, suddenly wanting to reverse or mitigate perceived negatice effects of this change is not hypocritical.

The foundational understanding people like kratter seem to have is faulty. Core 30 doesn’t signal that bitcoin is open for data storage. If I was presenting a plan for data storage to you and I told you it would cost you a minimum of 6 grand per 4mb chunk and you could at most only have 4mb every 10 minutes and in fact if you wanted consecutive blocks of 4mb the cost would likely be significantly higher you would laugh in my face. Bitcoin is clearly not a data storage scheme. The knots influencers are making mountains out of mole hills. Furthermore there is no emergency. Bitcoin doesn’t care about the laws we make. Valid transactions are mined they go in blocks those are the laws that matter. What they are suggesting is that bitcoin can be changed so that an external force can rollback the chain to remove something that was deemed illegal. This is the most fiat brained thing ive ever seen suggested. Kratter should be laughed at and shunned for doing this video with a straight face. If the law can change bitcoin it is not immutable and therefore has no value. The lukecashjr coin is a shitcoin.

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The us doesn’t have rights to healthcare and other requirements in this declaration and doesn’t care all that much about virtue signals.

pedo detected!

Retard detected.

better retarded than........ balls deep inside our kids....?

You spend too much time thinking about sex with children.

sounds american! not me

How long will a CSAM chain last ?

CSAM law do not operate that way. The Core V30 nodes all over AWS would be a BIG problem for Amazon.

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Feels like we are being forked in another way. As in the question, "When did you stop beating your wife," the emotional framing makes it difficult to answer. Feels like some framing needs to be rejected. Like it's a logical fallacy of the excluded middle. Even more so when in this case where dear Matthew is adding urgency to the decision. Not sure if his answer is right or wrong yet but the urgent pressing is reminiscent of a phishing campaign, trying to get suckers with urgent messaging. The CSAM alarm seems similar to Apple's justification for accessing icloud photos. Nobody in their right mind wants to host CSAM. But the answer in the BIP (if i understand correctly) of preemptively adding reorgs is not only centralizing but it reminds me of Wasabi's preemptive boot licking cuckery. No sane person wants CSAM but every sane person should want permissionless decentralized money that actually settles with finality. May the Lord grant us wisdom about this and raise up clear thinkers and leaders among us to help us know the right way forward. Grace be with is.

this is not the first time luke has attacked a blockchain. in 2012 he used eligius pool to perform a 51% attack on coiledcoin. he took unilateral action and the miners who used his pool were not aware of what was going on. luke has displayed a pattern of using resources that don't really belong to him to block or damage things he does not like, and not being transparent about it during or after. if you run his node software or signal his BIPs, don't be surprised what he tries to sneak into it to serve his own destructive and autocratic agendas. luke is a bad actor.

Core 30 is a major controversial change to btc, which in itself is cause for alarm. A major change requires sound reasoning on a major level. I have yet to see any arguments for this change that do not come from either shitcoiner scammers/ideological purists/autistic technocrats/nepotistically appointed "devs" with limited experience and undisclosed affinities. None of these arguments are sound nor make any real sense; the gist of them all seems to variations on "calm down and trust me bro", or " btc is magical and immune to harm because it is magical and immune to harm", which just isn't enough in light of what's at stake here. Add to this the fact that core 30 provides clear benefits for interests that are actively opposed to bitcoin's main purpose: to be sound money and a viable alternative to the broken fiat system. This change only benefits spammers looking for fiat gains, perverts looking for a way to share their perversions, and malicious actors like banks and state agencies looking to sabotage the only real challenge to their crumbling power structure. The rest of us have no need for it. On the contrary; using money as data storage makes it less viable as money, which means this change would be detrimental even if it only led to more "harmless" spam. These facts combined should be enough to make you pause and consider whether the concerns that Matt and other are raising are just hyperbole and scare tactics, or whether there is a real threat here. Just follow the money for fuck's sake.

but "we need incentives to fill the blocks"... we don't. We can mine empty blocks all day, every day. By design.

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You can’t expect a gaslighter to answer your questions in honesty.

Hi Matt. 2 warnings about bip-444: In the case of an offensive block, what happens to all legal txs within that same block? it'd be terrible to reverse good txs. Images/videos/files shouldn't be allowed at all, better than to monitor for the most unpleasant things, right? the worst experience for anyone monitoring it.

So what do you propose to do about large miners operating parallel transaction marketplaces and putting smaller miners at a disadvantage?

Core changed mempool propagation defaults, what you are proposing are consensus changes. These are very different.

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BIP-444 fixes that too, through stricter consensus rules.

I agree with everything that Matt says in this video, with one slight caveat. The way to get the bitcoin that you want is to vote with your money. That is your power. If the BTC444 fork starts with just 5% of the mining network, then it can start to get traction. The thing that will make the miners switch, is if the price of the new fork is higher than its relative hash power. For example, if the price of BTC444 is 10% of the old btc price and it has only 5% of the hash, then it is twice as profitable for the miners to mine BTC444 rather than the old one. Miners are economically incentivesed actors, they will produce what people will pay for. After the fork everyone will have both versions of bitcoin in their wallet. You can sit tight and play it safe, that way you will certainly end up with the winning bitcoin either way. Alternatively, you can become an active part of shaping the future of bitcion by selling some of your spam chain bitcion for some clean chain bitcoin. It will be quite cheap at first. Pay for the bitcoin that want to own and miners will produce what you pay for. This is how capitalism is supposed to work. The core devs are attempting a coup, but we have the real power. If you think about how almost all of the OG bitcoin hodlers really don't like ordinals, then you can probably have a good guess as to who is going to win! Peter Todd hates bitcoin and he wants to tear it all down. He made a film in which he pretended to be satoshi. He persistently proposes that we extend bitcoin beyond the 21m limit. He is bullying the bitcoin core devs into expanding OP_RETURN. I have been to bitdevs meetings and I've seen it happen. The only thing that we can do with 100KB that we can't do with 80 bytes is put more non financial data on the blockchain. The CSAM threat is real. That is what central bankers want, it is what governments want, it is what shitcoin projects want and it is what Peter Todd wants. They want to see bitcion fall. Thank you @npub1s33s...252p for highlighting this topic for us. View quoted note →

Its not my proposal. And while I do support the majority of it in theory, code has not been written yet, or at least been made available, so it is impossible for me to even say I support this bip fully. You're also right. They are very different. The futher off course a system strays, the more dramatic of an adjustment is necessary to correct it, and "oversteering" concerns may be prudent, but my point still stands.

The bip is all I need to make a decision. The whole thing reminds me of XT.

“I’m here to fix Bitcoin” Rekt

I unsubscribed a few weeks ago. This channel was an excellent learning resource for many years and its recent devolution into this madness has been extremely sad to watch. Cant recommend to friends/family anymore. Unfortunate.

People who want Bitcoin to fail are the ones planning to upload childporn

You sound very confused

You literally out here advocating for child porn to be allowed on chain. Shut the fuck up you putrid pedo

Less than 10% of nodes are running core 30 New bip, to remove blocks with childporn in case enough people do end up updating to core 30 (I actually daubt enough people will update for it to happen) View quoted note →

another good video View quoted note →