alana
· 1w
Bitcoin Knots grew from 394 nodes (2% of the network) in January 2025 to over 25% of all public Bitcoin nodes by September 2025. The loud minority is growing.
The default OP_RETURN data limit went from 83 bytes to 100,000 bytes — a 1,200x increase — through a relay policy change that required z...
Kyma Fi
· 1w
Satoshi said it himself in the Bitdns debate (which tried to spam the chain with domain names in 2010):
"Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale. Bitcoin and BitDNS can be used separately. Users shouldn't have to download all of both to use one or the o...
Kyma Fi
· 1w
Satoshi said it himself in the Bitdns debate (which tried to spam the chain with domain names in 2010):
"Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale. Bitcoin and BitDNS can be used separately. Users shouldn't have to download all of both to use one or the o...
Kyma Fi
· 1w
Satoshi said it himself in the Bitdns debate (which tried to spam the chain with domain names in 2010):
"Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale. Bitcoin and BitDNS can be used separately. Users shouldn't have to download all of both to use one or the o...