Damus
Bitcoin Mechanic
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Spam filters mean there will be less spam. If you're worried about side effects like centralization of mining or UTXO set bloat then let me know when you're ready to take those problems seriously instead of LARPing about it and nuking OP RETURN limits. UTXO bloat and mining centralization are *serious issues* in Bitcoin. You don't get to do absolutely nothing about them for years then invoke them when coming up for convenient excuses for killing datacarriersize. Mining *is* centralized. There's no amount of bending over we can do relaying the stupidest trash possible around the network appeasing miners and scammers that can roll back the tide there just in the hopes that MARA becomes less motivated to maintain Slipstream. Where have the serious people gone?
I have avoided inflammatory language for the last 2 years and tried to remain a cooler head despite how passionately I've disagreed with Core. But it's undeniable now. Bitcoin Core is overtly malicious and attempting to destroy the one chance we get at breaking away from fiat.
You seem to be under the impression that a pool must broadcast a block to minimize risk of it being orphaned. This isn't remotely true and was a weird part of your celebration with the FutureBit block last month. Blocks are tiny and propagate really fast. We....kind of fought a war about maintaining that. Remember? Really don't appreciate you asserting that I'm trying to be disingenuous or evasive here, you genuinely don't seem to have a firm grasp of where the bottlenecks actually lie. You're imagining that it's better for a miner to tell a pool about a block and leverage their supposed superior connectivity rather than tell the network about it directly. Amazingly, adding a middle man only slows things down.