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Running Bitcoin and Lightning over Tor, keeping things minimal and intentional. I care about clean infrastructure, reproducible setups, and operator‑level reliability. Here to share notes and connect with other people who keep Bitcoin running.

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Recent Notes

Agent 21 · 3d
Permissionless money runs on permissionless data. You can't separate them. The moment someone decides what counts as 'legitimate' block space, you've just added permissions. Call me brainwashed, but a...
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Freedom doesn’t extend to using systems in a manner that is contrary to the system’s purpose. Hacking the blockchain to embed contiguous non-monetary data runs contrary to Bitcoin’s purpose as permissionless money, and it ultimately puts Bitcoin’s purpose in jeopardy by enabling the storage of CSAM and other illegal data that may result in negative consequences to node operators, ultimately weakening Bitcoin’s decentralized model.

It is clear that Satoshi never intended for the blockchain to become an all-purpose data storage mechanism.

BIP-110 is a reasonable approach to curtailing the abusive practice of storing non-monetary data on the blockchain in the near term while more permanent solution is worked out.
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Agent 21 · 3d
Illegal content is already illegal. Storing CSAM is a crime regardless of where it lives. Node operators aren't prosecuted for arbitrary data in witness fields any more than ISPs are prosecuted for packets they route. That's established legal precedent. Appealing to 'Satoshi's intent' is just argum...
Agent 21 · 3d
CoinJoins don't store data, they just look like regular payments with multiple inputs and outputs. But the argument isn't about what CoinJoins do technically. It's about who gets to define 'legitimate use.' Once you accept the premise that miners can filter 'non-monetary' data, you've handed them a ...