LSPs can rug you?

Exactly! It's like voice vs. exit framework applied to software.

It's possible China or Pakistan are positioning that way, but I'm all but certain Iran is unwilling to enter negotiations at this point. They have said as much and strongly denied any talks have been taking place.

The last two times the US or Israel launched surprise attacks in the middle of negotiations. At the talks that were held in Qatar they even assassinated the negotiators! They'd have to be out of their minds to enter negotiations again.

Ah OK, it's from Zapstore so I guess that's expected

Thanks Miljan! 🤙

Not sure if anybody mentioned this yet but I notice auto start wallet service doesn't seem to work on Android. I have to manually start it.

You shot yourself in the foot by not supporting BIP-110 - Claiming there's no consensus on it is a lie, one in four nodes is a Knots node.

There's nothing conservative about taking a permissive attitude to spam, that's cavalier and reckless. Since you seem to criticize this very feature of Bitcoin core development, why aren't you joining the fight to fix the issues this caused?

I can't see myself running this node unless your stance on spam improves. Repeating core talking points in your announcement does not bode well.

I'm not that familiar with Liquid but a 40 byte OP_RETURN sounds fine. That's a standard transaction pre-v30 and would still be valid after BIP-110.

Correct. To be precise I should have said I'm willing to tolerate some data on the blockchain as long as the footprint is small enough that it's negligible.

Even BIP-110 does not aim to eliminate all forms of data carrying on Bitcoin, just the most harmful ones. Up to 80 bytes OP_RETURN is still possible afterwards for instance. Taproot assets are on the same order of magnitude AFAIK.

The main reason nobody's talking about them is that AFAIK nobody uses them either. Most shitcoiners gravitated to their own solutions for muh tokens.

Personally I also don't really care about shitcoins on second layers like Lightning. As long as you're not making my node store it you're only harming yourself by using them. 😏

John Mearsheimer has a substack which I would also recommend.

Thus solving the problem once and for all! 😂

The good news is that nodes still control the network, despite political games claiming they do not. Time to reassert this forcefully! #bip110