Totally agree. The only slippery slope is doing nothing while spam is flooding the chain. Gotta Rug the Spammers with BIP-110.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Maybe both?

All facts. Nodes must run the show. BIP-110 brings that back into alignment.

That X comment only confirms what I have said all along. There is no legitimate market for jpegs on bitcoin. This is VC spammers trying to create a bitcoin "OpenSea" with high asymmetric return from a few niche suckers. They are running scared now that they understand how effective BIP-110 will be. Pure genius in design. The timing is perfection.

Excellent site. He does a fantastic job of illustrating the spam attacks on multiple dimensions. Proof of work at its best.

Ivan Pustogarov in 2015 explained that running bitcoin over tor introduces risk to the network. It is true that you don't have to open port 8333 on your router with tor, but depending on another node network for uptime (only 8,000 to 10,000 tor relays worldwide) gives me some pause on weighing privacy pros and cons. However, with rising spam (and potentially illegal content) on the network, clearnet may pose an even greater risk in the future.

Not spreading FUD on network configuration or anything, just objectively analyzing the security and privacy tradeoffs. Your node, your rules. Your keys, your coins.

I wish there was BIP that could rug "influencers". @ODELL would make that list. Empty shells pretending to know what they are talking about.

Isn't this the exact opposite position of Ivan Pustogarov from 2015?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gd5NZvsyAfw&pp=ygUWQml0Y29pbiBvdmVyIHRvciByaXNrcw%3D%3D

Tone offers nothing to the table. He has a surface level understanding of basic principles and is completely wrong on a host of issues. Why do bitcoiners listen to this clown?

But can they?

It has been Bitcoin Core's job to eradicate security vulnerabilities that threaten the network and they have been poor stewards to that end.

This is why we need BIP-110. We need to stop relying on a co-opted development team and start treated bitcoin for what it was always intended to be.

Excellent video. All 4 on the list are security vulnerabilities that we need to eradicate. BIP-110 is needed to finally put this long standing concern to rest.

Government has only one role, which is to keep its citizens safe from aggressors foreign and domestic. Finally, the US government did something useful with its citizens tax dollars. Now, if we can only get it to stop using the printing press... 🤔

Miners are employees of the network. The network is controlled by nodes because node runners own the land where bitcoin lives. The miners are but serfs on the land. The extra fees from spam dust are not a strong enough incentive when only a couple of miners have the spam profitting VC firms backing them. When other miners can easily get more blocks and coinbase on a clean chain they switch over and leave the spam blocks to die.