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Cykros · 11w
Besides not doing anything useful, being the most reckless activation of any fork ever (55%? Yikes), and completely undermining any valid narrative against spam? Mostly all the charlatans spreading c...
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On activation methodology, there is no other option. We can’t give veto power to hostile miners like F2Pool, who also mines Ethereum!

BIP-110 is a reaction to overreach by Core, who increased the attack surface for no real gain ignoring the will of the community (the OP_R uncap had 4 to 1 nacks to acks and plenty of grassroots opposition). Legal risks are real if Core keeps pushing Bitcoin from monetary network to file storage network, for example allowing huge arbitrary data in the designated arbitrary data section. The fact that a hack (libre relay) was created by a bad actor doesn’t mean we have to legitimize it.

Are you closely associated with Core? Because BIP-110 is also a reaction to several figures showing up in the Epstein files. Core has been co-opted.
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Cykros · 11w
The idea that Core changed Bitcoin inherently is another one of those twists of the truth. The reality is, nothing about Knots meant you couldn't open up datacarriersize either. It's not a 'hack' -- it's a configuration file option. I'm not thrilled with Core governance, and do still run Knots (wit...