TheKayman on Nostr: - Increasing the amount in which people’s nodes store in their mempool and relay to ...

- Increasing the amount in which people’s nodes store in their mempool and relay to other people’s nodes by 1250x is major. Changes do not have to be just to the consensus level . If the default data carrier size is increased by 1250x on 80% of the nodes (I understand that 80% represents all of core’s software versions, so v30 may end up looking a lot less) then spam will end up at a miners node more often than not.

- Yes people are already able to store arbitrary data on chain. You either have to A mine a block yourself, B go directly to a miner (Mara Slipstream), C use the inscriptions exploit. With 100kb of op return, it allows people to store arbitrary data not just on chain but also in nodes mempools for a lower cost than option A and B in one whole contiguous chunk unlike C which must be broken into chunks. It’s one thing to say “oh people are already putting arbitrary data on chain”, and then not do anything about it. It’s another thing to say that and then actively make it easier for people to upload spam, for the sake of block propagation and fee estimation.

- Making the p2p network relay spam which is valid by consensus, but that makes it harder to run a node due to computational costs of processing these larger stores of data, plus any sort of data that is illegal / immoral, makes it more difficult / more undesirable to run a node and hence less people will do it leading to centralisation. Please note this illicit data does not even have to be mined for nodes to store it, it just has to be relayed to them…

- Arguably the social consensus layer to bitcoin is the most important as it is the one steering the ship and advocating for changes / decisions and pointing out problems . Bitcoin is not a conscious being and so it will head where we want it to head. It’s almost certain that social consensus (ie the large majority of bitcoiners) would be up for the idea of quantum resistant addresses because it serves their best interests. The op return change only serves the interests of those who wish to spam the chain and miners who are focused on short term profit rather than preservation.

- It’s true just run another client which approx 20% of the network is doing. The issue is core had approx 99% of the market share before this change and were / are the reference implementation and so any change they make even to mempool policy has its effects

- I don’t think considering potential threats and attacks is FUD, I think it’s more about being vigilant and not complacent

- Maybe Luke is using this as a power grab / portraying himself as the hero. He must have been planning this since 2023 because that’s when he released knots. So maybe he initiated core to make the op return change so that people would switch to knots and herald him as the hero. It’s definitely quite the plan. Maybe he was also behind the inscriptions hack because that was one of the reasons he created knots. Wow this goes deep…