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Life is the standard by which to judge good and evil | Objectivist

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Recent Notes

Diacone Frost · 4d
they have a giant exit tax too. they're prepared.
Cyph3rp9nk · 5d
The leader of a project like Bitcoin has to be an incorruptible fucking autistic who doesn't give a shit about hurting other people's feelings and who doesn't give a shit about what they say about him...
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From the perspective that Bitcoin actually is a fiat currency, on the basis a group of developers controls it via their power of implementation - create, influence, veto - and each time the network is used a transaction must be accepted by the network, then having a head, or chairperson, is not out of the question.

Perhaps the system is already set up to allow this. Note in UK politics for long periods there is no single person out rightly a moral leader, however in times of stress the system allows for it, and those such as Winston Churchill rise up.

Bitcoin Core (BTC) lives in a competitive environment and if the key developers get it wrong, it will lose its dominance. Key competitors right now are Bitcoin Cash (BCH), Etherium (ETH) and Solana (SOL). Also emerging are CBDC’s.
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Grok, what is bCore v30?

“Bitcoin Core 30 (often abbreviated or referred to casually as “bcore 30” or similar in discussions) is the major version release of Bitcoin Core, the primary open-source reference implementation software that powers Bitcoin nodes.
Bitcoin Core v30.0 was released in October 2025 (with subsequent patches like 30.1 and 30.2 addressing bugs). It’s a significant update that includes several changes, but the most controversial and widely discussed one is the dramatic increase in the default OP_RETURN data limit.
Key Change in v30
• Previously, OP_RETURN (a way to embed small amounts of arbitrary/non-spendable data in Bitcoin transactions) was limited to 80 bytes by default in node mempool policy.
• In v30, this limit was massively expanded — reports vary slightly in exact figures due to implementation details and maximums, but it effectively allows up to ~100,000 bytes (or in some descriptions nearly the full ~4 MB block size limit) for OP_RETURN outputs by default.
• This change removes long-standing restrictions that were intended to discourage “spam” or non-monetary data on the blockchain (e.g., inscriptions, arbitrary files, or protocols like those seen in Ordinals/BRC-20).”