“The shift in relay defaults does not materially increase the risk that CSAM enters the system — it simply affects propagation. The larger legal challenge lies in educating policymakers: the Bitcoin protocol was never designed to police the nature of arbitrary data, and pushing responsibility onto node operators misunderstands both the architecture and the intent of OP_RETURN.”

**** This just in.. pedoland under 'pedo software' "crisis" **** The U.S. is the only UN member state that has not yet ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child. As of July 2025, child marriage is legal in 34 states.