and every #bitcoin_knots node becomes an unwitting accomplice of criminals, because it will be forced to store the csam that miners included in the blockchain, and will also be forced to distribute csam throughout the network. #bitcoin_core are headed straight to jail. for me, this is not a big problem, because they are adults and have the right to build their own future. but I care when bitcoin_core drags me and other bitcoin_knots owners to jail. as a lawyer, I see only one way to save myself: a hard fork. and the hard fork must happen before September 30th, so that the new branch cannot load csam that may appear after September 30th. I don’t see any other technical way to save myself and my node. and also. imagine if, in addition to child pornography, someone posts government secrets on the blockchain. imagine how quickly federal agents will come to our homes. i am not against a new Snowden. I am against him killing bitcoin.
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You can’t expect to get support for a soft fork in under a month, let alone a hard fork. That’s a non-starter.
The only realistic path is Knots becoming the majority client (>50% of the network). That could happen before the end of September. If Knots takes that position, most pools will likely either switch or refuse to update Core past v29. Any pool that moves to v30 without curating the transactions in its templates essentially makes itself a willing solicitor for CSAM, opening the door to legal liability. Responsibility for CSAM on-chain ultimately rests with pools and miners and they have every incentive not to let it happen.
Imagine having to tell our kids:
We had this great opportunity to be free from the fiat criminal system that aligned banks and governments against us and made it able to control us and take our wealth, fund everlasting wars with it, and so on.
We didn't have to turn to violence to break this system, putting unimaginable numbers of human lives at stake, we only had to start using this new money, a system given to us for FREE....
"But daddy what happened ?"
Well we let it taken away from us since some thought it was nice to embed JPEG's and other bullshit onchain.....
I can't believe all the extremist views on something as stupid as this current OP_RETURN debate. It makes no sense to me. All this division about something that in the end does not really matter. I have no problem if you run core or knots or BTC_NODE.BAT but this, like everything else, will not be the turning point or even remotely the biggest problem we will face.
All this over dramatized stuff is much, much more toxic than anything core or knots can ever do wrong or make right for that matter.
