daniel on Nostr: Even if you’re not a technical person, the comments in this thread are worth ...
Even if you’re not a technical person, the comments in this thread are worth reading so you understand what calculations were made, for and against this change, and who stood by which principles in the end.
I don’t claim to be smart enough to understand all the details, but this line by
GrassFedBitcoin (npub1wnl…n3wr) stood out to me:
“I’d rather Core change course and stop undermining the network by forcing through changes so widely detested in service of turning nodes into free relay services for miners wanting to fill the chain up with trash.”
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32406Published at
2025-06-09 19:07:40Event JSON
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