55% of miners have now adopted Core v30.
The doors are now open to send transactions to the blockchain that include any form of image or video to miner.
The miners will include it in the blockchain and it will be there forever.
From that point onwards people that run nodes will be at risk of prosecution for hosting and distributing illegal content.
Anyone that doesn't like bitcoin will do this. That could include, shitcoin projects, intelligence agencies, Peter Todd.
It is really not a question of 'if' this will happen, more a question of 'when' will this happen?
Sooner or later, the government of one of the 195 countries in the world, that doesn't like having a competing currency that they can't control, will prosecute someone for running bitcoin a node that contains easily accessible illegal content.
The potential for prosecution with 'plain text' op_return data is on a different level to any ordinals that were stored in the witness data before. Simple tools that exist on the computer of anyone running a node can be used to access and view the material.
People will get scared away from Bitcoin nodes and we will lose decentralisation.
The media backlash against bitcoin will be more severe. Users of Bitcoin will be branded criminals and publicly shamed.
Here is a list of mining pools that have upgraded to v30 of core:
Foundry USA 28% Upgraded (Oct 15) Default 100KB
F2Pool 15% Upgraded (Oct 18) Default 100KB
Binance Pool11% Upgraded (Oct 14) Default 100KB
AntPool 22% Testing (still on v29 primarily)N/A (not fully on v30) Delayed due to "policy review"; if they upgrade soon (~Nov 1), expect default unless community pressure mounts.
ViaBTC 12% Partial (50% on v30) Default 100KB on v30 nodesHybrid setup for "risk hedge"; no indication of custom limits on v30 portion.
Luxor~3%On v29/KnotsN/AConservative; using Knots' ~80-byte default, but not on v30.
Braiins~2%On v29N/AHolding out; focuses on firmware over Core upgrades.
If you know anyone at any of the pools that have upgraded please tell them to reverse the upgrade.
There is still time to change things before an illegal block gets mined.
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Wasn’t the ability to include illegal images always present?
It has been since segwit, but the process of retrieving data and viewing it from segwit is much more complicated.
Retrieving from op_return is easy, so easy that a court will likely deem that the node runner is storing illegal content, because their computer will almost certainly contain the tools that can be used to view the content.
That’s concerning 🥹
This actually shows the real problem with "mining" today, regardless of filters. People with bitcoin miners are NOT mining Bitcoin. Instead jsut these 7 node installed v30, and now more than half the blocks created in Bitcoin have ben altered.
Importantly, NOT half the people running hash power or the users who are trying to support Bitcoin, but the mining pool operators who *decide* what goes into over half the blocks.
This is why DATUM is the most important project in Bitcoin.
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Time to fork?
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looks like it!
Any content on any hard disk or storage media can be classified as illegal by authorities, depending on their definition of illegal.
Run a node always minimum under TOR. I'm more concerned about largely organized Spam attacks. The argument that fees have to be played for these Spam attacks is a joke if government can easily pay for this.
Weak. You can say the same about surfing the internet on a pc
Retrieving content from segwit vs op_return is literally the same complex bash one liner. No practical difference (definitely not from court perspective)
In July 2019, an anonymous BSV transaction embedded CSAM images in a ~100KB OP_RETURN output (pre-Genesis, when BSV allowed ~100KB, similar to BTC v30 now). The block was mined, making the content immutable and queryable via explorers (e.g., Blockchair). Exact txid wasn’t widely publicized for ethical reasons, but CoinGeek and BSV Wiki confirmed it.
Interpol and EU Authorities issued a notice in late 2019 urging BSV node operators to filter or prune the content.
BSV has an unlimited OP_RETURN field.
Governments that want to prosecute someone for something will find a way.
I defer to Nick Szabo on that one. A computer scientist with a law degreee.
We dont hate core enough
Hello Mr Judge, which one of these two is highly illegal and which one is cool?
Getting image data from op_return:
bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 4719e7252f4bdefd9f7bdf5058f17af28729b79c303b067eb01c107e57235754 1 | jq -r '.vout[0].scriptPubKey.asm | sub("^OP_RETURN "; "")' | xxd -p -r | tail -c +25 | base64 -d >image.jpg
Getting image data from witness:
bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 584b6d204fcf6e2a3dd82a9adc55890447a09b534ab7d725a7353aecf547bcbf 1 | jq '.vin[0].txinwitness[1][122:40430] | gsub("4d0802";"")' | xxd -r -p > image.webp
True but china has us by the balls. Bitcoin is the only hard money that can out compete china’s gold stack. Only Bitcoin can save their sorry asses
Is it normal for miners to upgrade to new versions so quickly?
time for user activated soft fork
приходим к логическому смыслу.
либо не существует запрещенного контента,
либо за запрещенный контент отвечает исключительно источник информации!
а значит любой Питер Тодд, может стать таким.
по все видимости отсутствие логики у старого поколения говорит что они не готовы к новым технологиям.!
😢😢
