The act of looking and finding would be a crime, because that requires you to rearrange the data in your node to reveal it, so nobody will confirm or deny its presence.
Here’s an example you can try to get the proof of concept, without breaking the law, if you run a bitcoin node:
bitcoin-cli getblock 00000000000000ecbbff6bafb7efa2f7df05b227d5c73dca8f2635af32a2e949 0 | tail -c+92167 | for ((o=0;o<946;++o)) ; do read -rN420 x ; echo -n ${x::130}${x:132:130}${x:264:130} ; done | xxd -r -p | tail -c+9 | head -c184292 > bitcoin.pdf
This extracts a PDF file with embedded images…it just so happens to be Satoshi’s whitepaper, but it didn’t have to be!
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Make no mistake: the fools who are just now thinking about this issue as if it’s something new are probably already guilty of the crime they want to see core node runners be convicted of.
Isn’t it worse if it’s in a raw form in opreturn instead of this obfuscated form?
If you're going to make your argument, I wouldn't do it with conjecture-based ad hominum.
Where is the difference? In both cases you need software to read it, right?
The knots argument is that bitcoin should be used for 'monetary use' only and not arbitrary data.
But once you start a filter at the core it opens the gates for future political inspired plays and further tightening and restrictions or is this out of reality (social media age verification cough cough)
