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2025-05-10 20:45:46

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Still waiting for the shitcoin casino spam to "price itself out".
Now that Core officially rolled out the red carpet for spam they're a lost cause.
Don't expect Odell and the VC bros to ever get on the right dide of this. He and his ilk have been downplaying the problem since day one.

2025-05-05 18:47:12

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The Genesis block is a very singular example.
Spam isn't that hard to define.
Spam is not that hard to define or discern.
Would you empty your spam folder into your inbox and philosophize ove hundreds of Viagra adds pondering if each is spam or not?
Using an exploit to upload JPEGs or minting shitcoins inside bitcoin is spam.
Spam filters have already been in Bitcoin since Satoshi was still around.
There already has been a small place for arbitrary data (between of 80 bytes for responsible and reasonable use of arbitrary data . Now Bitcoin Core wants to make it unlimited, with no ability to configure

2025-05-05 17:31:26

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2025-05-05 17:29:13

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Have you disabled your email spam folder because it's exclusionary?
Excluding spam is completely expected and reasonable.
When spammers/shitcoiners forcie all nodes to store and propagate arbitrary data that is harmful. Same for driving up tx fees. Both are harmful.
Yes Ordinals exist because devs exploited a bug. So the bug should be fixed imo.
Bitcoin is a monetary network, not a platform for free file storage via unfixed exploit

2025-05-05 16:53:42

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Let's consider conflicts of interest.
I am not getting the same vibes from "Bitcoin Core" that we got in 2014 or 2017.
There's too much casualness about shitcoiners in Bitcoin.
I'm not talking about shitcoins outside of Bitcoin. I don't really care about that.
The problem is they're using Bitcoin as a means to host their shitcoun platforms.
That obviously and blatantly seems like big problem to me since 2023 but too many people followed the "it will price itself out" narrative.
It will not price itself out if it's self-sustainf and corrupting the reference client. And also aside from just greed and "defense", consider how "shitcoins in bitcoin' is a state level attack vector to centralize and kill Bitcoin

2025-05-05 16:42:29

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It's actually simple but it's framed as complicated by the people pushing this.
"Trust the experts"
Is Bitcoin's only use case as money?
Should node runners have the option to configure their me pool?
Should code changes to the default client require discussion and consensus?
Should we be concerned about conflicts of interest of devs pushing changes?
I'd say common sense would be to answer "yes" to all the above. Who we have now as "Bitcoin Core" largely and surprisingly don't agree.

2025-05-05 16:13:32

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It's obvious that as usual formerly respected Bitcoiners will turn into pariahs.
All over fiat money and ego.
Welcome to the club

2025-05-05 16:11:28

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Theres a conflict of interest between "crypto" projects influencing Bitcoin Core for a while now.
The attitude on spam was wrongly overlooked as something that will "just go away".
It didn't.
The "shit coin in Bitcoin" ecosystem has been like a parasite and its influence has grown.
What "Bitcoin Core" (whoever that is now) lost the plot and need to go bye bye