Please, Bitcoiners, stop being so naive. Do you think the system will give up the goose that lays the golden eggs, which is the fiat system? Bitcoin is attacked every day by three-letter agencies. Do you remember why Satoshi disappeared? Do you remember who Gavin Andresen was? Do you believe Craig Wright acted alone? Do you think the block size war was started by mere idiots? Please, don't be so naive. Where do you think spam is financed from? Do you know how many millions have been spent? Stop being a child, they are state actors, grow up and take action.

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The more I think about it, the more I'm sure a fork will be needed. The exploits must be patched. Better to do it with as short of a timechain as possible
You don't even need a fork; in fact, a fork is unfeasible for both DDoS attacks and spam, but I have to admit that attacks are becoming increasingly subtle. All of this will end with John the carpenter asking you why he can't run a node with a $1,000 computer, and then you'll know it's all over.
I have to admit, I have no idea what the requirements of a fork would be or what the consequences are. Mythinking is that if Segwit & Taproot have existential defects, they WILL eventually be exploited. If the reference implementation (Core & associated mining software) allow for the exploit then it's only a matter of time.
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BitcoinIsFuture 3 months ago
The good news is that Bitcoin is still here. I run Bitcoin Knots to keep spam out of the Bitcoin Monetary network.
yes, but this still doesn't make filters work or Core malicious. the best we can do is to think critically and make the strongest arguments we can
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BTC21 3 months ago
Gold was attacked. Free speech was attacked. Privacy was attacked. Bitcoin is no different. But unlike the rest, it fights back.
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cavemanf16 3 months ago
LOL. Indeed. But this is just another crypto-kiddie spamming the hell outta nostr lately, as if he’ll find some retards to send free money. Just mute turds like this.
Running your own hasher connected to your own node and using datum to choose your own block template makes filters work.
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monarx 3 months ago
They don’t earn that much. At most 0.25 BTC per block, and thats the fee paid for an entire block if someone wants to fill it up with spam at 40kb each UTXO at the rate of 25sat/vB, which is already more than average fee rate. It is not average Timmy working 9-5 who wants to spend 0.25 BTC to add spam, its entities with money behind them, and what could their motives be?
blocks mined by larger pools make more in fees than those mined by smaller ones. it's not as important while rewards dominate the total, but over time it becomes a bigger deal. here's my overall take in as few words as possible: none of this matters. make bitcoin a p2p electronic cash or it will die
Lol, you seem to think they are still operating as if we'd live in the 70s. They long captured the VC startup scam market providing you with the free apps everybody got conditioned to use.
Just a reminder that Epstein funded BTC development vat MIT
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Please, Bitcoiners, stop being so naive. Do you think the system will give up the goose that lays the golden eggs, which is the fiat system? Bitcoin is attacked every day by three-letter agencies. Do you remember why Satoshi disappeared? Do you remember who Gavin Andresen was? Do you believe Craig Wright acted alone? Do you think the block size war was started by mere idiots? Please, don't be so naive. Where do you think spam is financed from? Do you know how many millions have been spent? Stop being a child, they are state actors, grow up and take action.
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Snowden is a great guy advocating for privacy .. but privacy tools shall be used by 3 letter agencies ..not normies 😜 Because normies don't care for privacy ! Btw .. both Bitcoin and nostr are public open spaces .. there are no secrets here ..