> Sending a message to spammers that they are not welcome is futile as the spammers do not care about our messages; they will just move to more destructive methods, and the cat and mouse game will continue.

I disagree. Bitcoin does not live in a vacuum. There are other projects they can move to. We kicked Vitalik off of Bitcoin when he realized it would be a "hostile environment" for his needs.

> So the proposal tightens some superficial limits but risks worsening the one part of the system that actually matters for long-term decentralisation: UTXO size, not raw block weight.

Maybe you're right. That's the BIP-110 proposal is a **temporary** soft fork. A year's worth of damage is a small price to pay for **doing SOMETHING** about this mess.

Not true! I use Monero to stack more sats.

Bitcoin's history constitutes its network effect, but its language and rules constitute its protocol. TCP/IP, for example, was invented in the 70s, and was built upon for decades to become the protocol stack for the modern internet.

Were more efficient protocols proposed since then? Sure. But none were powerful enough improvements to convince the majority of builders and investors away from TCP/IP. Instead, we built upon the "good enough" protocol in a backward-compatible way.

Nowadays I don't hear many people say that we need new versions of TCP/IP, or that the early adopters were too rude. It's because of the toxic conviction of those early adopters that we have a generally accepted standard for digital communication in the first place.

I use a self hosted node to purchase Proton services using bitcoin I mined myself.

Not mining your own corn? Send KYC coins as eCash through two anonymous Cashu wallets before sending to Proton. You'll get the same privacy as Monero, if not better.

Because it's a v30 feature. Backporting it onto minor update of v28 circumvents Core node runner's ability to choose, by "sneaking it" into what appears to be a maintenance update.

It looks like think they need this out in the wild, and are willing to sacrifice any semblance of convention to make it happen.

This usermag.co editorial is garbage propaganda btw. And not garbage as in false. Garbage as in not-even-good-at-being-propaganda propaganda.

It's just weak anecdotal arguments in support of Piker, weak emotional arguments against "the far right", and then page after page of conflating livestreaming with involuntary surveillance, claiming this drama is indicative of some existential threat, and then the pièce de résistance closer and not-so-subtle endorsement of Piker's anti-capitalism agenda:

"Profit-driven tech platforms ensure that bad actors and extremists reign, and we’ve allowed tech oligarchs to dismantle all vestiges of a shared reality."

The whole thing reads like a fluff piece somebody would write if they NEEDED to defend Piker.

Piker has been preaching violence for years, and none of his followers batted an eye.

It wasn't until he used a shock collar to punish his dog for stepping off the bed she's forced to lay on on for 4+ hours at a time, that his audience is waking up to what a piece of shit he is.

Some part of that backlash could very well be stoked by ulterior motives, sure. This is an information war, and there a lot of powerful interests that want to see Piker's influence continue to grow.

And then flew home to posthumously award the late Charlie Kirk in ceremony with his widow.

This whole OP_RETURN fiasco has me wondering if Core's inscription/ordinal sugardaddies are simply unaware that they're picking up pennies in front of a steamroller, or if this is actually something more sinister than follow-the-money analysis would suggest.

Running Knots either way.