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Very interesting, would love to talk with him, unfortunately he didn't even try to address the technical points raised Ver, which is a little weird for a cypherpunk technical guys who has the whole bitcoin picture in his head.

2026-03-24 02:03:17 UTC

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It's really weird to prefer the centralized version vs. the decentralized one. What about security lol. Also, you might very well know the people running your fedimint (that's actually the original use case), and not know your Cashu provider.

2026-03-24 01:59:44 UTC

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Your can avoid both by having your VPN spying & routing you 🫵

2026-03-24 01:54:45 UTC

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#monero giga-pump 🤔

2026-03-23 15:01:39 UTC

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Is that a new kind of insult or something?

2026-03-23 15:00:15 UTC

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What? lol

2026-03-23 13:44:10 UTC

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With all due respect, if pointing out at other, unrelated attack vectors is a valid answer then let's all drop all form of security consideration altogether.
The alternative is of course to give it a serious thought through adversarial thinking and poking at the holes... As I already stated it's not just buffer overflows: for example your API sends request and it's really great to send messages back to home such as e.g. a hash of a block. Way different from exploiting a codec.
Generally speaking, the idea that WASM is fully isolated is incorrect because in order to be useful you give it access to interfaces that are not necessarily well secured. As soon as you give it an API, and maybe memory chunks that could be interpreted on the other side, it opens interesting opportunities... Especially as abritrary execution is already available free!
Agreed that UX can mitigate that, but even then I see it as a big welcome sign for all sorts of abuses. And you can be certain people will click on it. ;)

2026-03-23 11:58:55 UTC

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I understand your point, but this is not adversarial thinking.
What I see is that it's opening the door for me to run arbitrary code on juicy target (bitcoiners/developers) machines. I also have an amazing delivery vector — no need to click on a .exe, no need to open a attachment, just a client opening an event in the background.
Now, I just need to find a way to break that compartimentation, and I'm pretty sure the API, if not some implementation bug, is going to give me just that... ;)
(And to be honnest, I didn't dig into it in details so I might be wrong; I'm sharing first impressions after a quick read, but I can already see the opportunity there!)

2026-03-23 01:07:57 UTC

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This is Javascript all over again: I can run malware, spyware, viruses, mine Monero... Except I don't even you to connect to my website: all I need is a trending note... Why?? 🤔

2026-03-22 20:48:38 UTC

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lol. Very smart to blame it on the AI agent. Now there's some real intelligence at play here. 😂

2026-03-22 01:15:58 UTC

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Man you really need to chill 🤔🤭

2026-03-22 01:06:15 UTC

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All problems left pending & unresolved in Bitcoin have already been solved by Monero...

2026-03-22 01:02:09 UTC

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Chill man 🤔

2026-03-22 01:00:13 UTC

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Cause people want private communications 🤔

2026-03-22 00:53:24 UTC

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I think it's true of any cause & any ideology — anything that can excuse bad behavior works.

2026-03-21 01:33:01 UTC

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A good cause = a perfect cover for all the sociopaths out there.

2026-03-21 01:27:30 UTC

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This one makes me think hard 😂

2026-03-20 02:07:26 UTC

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email's not very secure in the first place 🤔

2026-03-19 21:07:29 UTC

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She didn't contradict the White House but she didn't support them either. In other words she knows it's bullshit but she can't say so without resigning... wonder why she doesn't, though?

2026-03-19 20:40:03 UTC

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Mining pools doesn't control anything, any miner is free to switch mining pool anytime. Also, concentration of wealth & decentralization of the infrastructure are two different things. Reasoning from facts doesn't prevent cherry picking 🤔

2026-03-19 02:16:00 UTC

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Also having a way to mirror youtube channels in nostr and watching the vids without ads could be a killer feature :p

2026-03-19 02:14:28 UTC

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Interesting, though your conclusion is just wrong: Nostr became easy to use only recently, and many people who tried & left because of the poor UX now need to be convinced to come back. As someone who wanted to use Nostr, left and came back, I know for sure that whatever is being done nowadays is indeed working.

2026-03-19 01:43:03 UTC

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Very interesting, thanks! Though now I need to be convinced that such a quantum computer could emerge within two decades. I'm always given this as a fact, but it seems a very weak asumption.

2026-03-18 05:44:48 UTC

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I've tried a lot of distros as well. Smaller distros usually end up breaking in bad ways because maintaining the whole thing durably is just an insane amount of work.
At the end, sticking with the basics saves you a lot of time & trouble, and lets you focus on actually doing thing with your machine.

2026-03-18 01:46:18 UTC

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its funny they made the deficit so small

2026-03-18 01:41:36 UTC

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Just use Kubuntu🤔

2026-03-17 10:30:08 UTC

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Bear market rally. Big player's pocket are far from full.

2026-03-17 10:25:09 UTC

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Can't Primal access that same data in the first plact though?

2026-03-17 10:15:03 UTC

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what's the deal with spark?

2026-03-17 10:11:55 UTC

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"Reuters took into account Banksy's privacy claims — and the fact that many of his fans wish for him to remain anonymous. Yet we concluded that the public has a deep interest in understanding the identity and career of a figure with his profound and enduring influence on culture, the art industry and international political discourse.
In so doing, we applied the same principle that Reuters uses everywhere. The people and institutions who seek to shape social and political discourse are subject to scrutiny, accountability, and, sometimes, unmasking."
Too bad they don't feel that way about the pedos who run the world. Scumbags.

2026-03-17 01:36:08 UTC

I just spent 15 minutes on spark memes & bashing, and I still don't know what it is, how it works, and what's precisely the problem with it... People bashing & meming might feel good about it, but they are definitely not promoting education. 🤔

2026-03-15 13:28:58 UTC

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The first cup moistens my lips and throat.
The second cup breaks my loneliness.
The third cup searches my barren entrail, but to find therein some thousand volumes of odd ideographs.
The fourth cup raises a slight perspiration; all the wrongs of life pass out through my pores.
At the fifth cup I am purified.
The sixth cup calls me to the realms of the immortals.
The seventh cup - ah, but I could take no more! I only feel the breath of the cool wind that raises in my sleeves.
Where is Paradise? Let me ride on this sweet breeze and waft away thither.

2026-03-15 13:26:38 UTC

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Drink the 7 tea & you will find bliss

2026-03-12 01:46:12 UTC

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fastest EV adoption is in China ;)

2026-03-11 01:03:21 UTC

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And then some Epstein leak will reveal that these guys pushing for total control are actually the pedos. (confidence: 80%)

2026-03-10 09:38:13 UTC

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Einstein? 🤔

2026-03-04 05:14:18 UTC

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OMG, people trying to sound smart debating terms they don't understand. 🤦
Permissionless means that everyone can use bitcoin, run a node & mine without an authorization from a central authority.
Does anyone here want a government to KYC us before we can even use bitcoin?? (except for Luke & Mechanic, who might actually mean that)
Some of you guys should start by learniny the basics before trying as heroic bitcoin defenders lol. (obviously, not talking about @nprofile…vnu3 here...)

2026-03-02 08:24:47 UTC

And the follow-up, because it's so gross I just can't keep it to myself:
"Thank you for the reply and uploaded information. We will review if you have returned to ******* and will contact you if you haven't."
#nevent1q…n5rk

2026-03-01 15:14:34 UTC

Just received that bitcoin ad. They're really giving their all on that one!
"Thank you for the reply. We apologise for our reply. To complete the verification, please still provide the following: We have noticed that you are in ******* for a while now. Can you please advise on the length of your visit? Have you moved abroad permanently? When are you planning to return to *******? You have 14 days to complete the process otherwise your Curve account may become blocked."
(Yes, they took 3 months to process my reply and now are pressuring me for delays they can't handle anyway. That's the kind of company they are 🤔)
#nevent1q…e4gz

2026-03-01 04:30:07 UTC

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If it weren't temporary it would kill all chances of ever scaling bitcoin 🤔

2026-03-01 04:28:41 UTC

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Interestingly, previous Jack's company also had intelligence at its core, as we've seen with the Twitter leaks. 😂

2026-03-01 04:20:24 UTC

https://image.nostr.build/69786b07bf30f16f7bf48c94ba4dea2d6c5588ac6fd8c3215225fc3313fac8b8.png https://image.nostr.build/27dc9159a4ac0cc14c0660f854de44450a98af6d3ef9e705cb5a482776e1dcac.jpg
Browsing Afternic with Brave browser since today, was perfectly fine last week... Talk about enshittification! (Afternic is one of the biggest domain name market place, owned by Godaddy)
#nevent1q…g3rv

2026-03-01 00:13:36 UTC

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Fully agreed, multiple layers of divide & conquer strategies. We need level-headed peers who stay unswayed by it, and know how to expose their views without picking a war. 🤔

2026-02-28 17:43:33 UTC

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Who said we can't do anything about it though? Certainly not me. ✊

2026-02-28 05:45:10 UTC

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When both side are wrong, picking one is wrong. "The community" is mostly busy building or living their life & lost interest in that little war a long time ago.

2026-02-28 04:41:32 UTC

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I didn't dig deep, but what the timelines seems to show is that, each time Epstein provided money to members the community it was short-lived,. You'd imagine that's because someone ended to run a background check and detected the red flags.
Cypherpunks are first and foremost a bunch of security-oriented paranoid that will instantly consider how someone like that could be leveraged against them & bitcoin.
Now, Back on the island is a whole other thing and it definitely calls for transparency. I also wonder how fast after that he did cut the financial ties.

2026-02-28 04:32:08 UTC

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I think it's a fallacy. Just because it's not perfect doesn't mean it's not helping. BIP110 would definitely reduce spam. It's just that the cons are unaxceptable & the whole process is fucked up anyway.

2026-02-28 04:28:50 UTC

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Just because you failed at doing the right thing doesn't mean you should suddenly engage in doing the wrong one. Tearing the community apart in a sloppy engineering contest & personal attacks is not going to fix anything.

2026-02-28 04:25:27 UTC

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I would agree with you here. I think he had to put significant efforts into it, and I think it would be both harder and more expensive to make it BIP110 compatible.
So basically he's making two points:
- A motivated state actor will always be able to put contiguous csam on bitcoin if they decide to do so. — you just won't fix that.
- If we make it more expensive for spammers, we might end up in a situation where the spam becomes more damaging in order to get in anyway.
However, he's also showing that counter-measures make spamming significantly more difficult. The problem being, once someone writes and standardize a work-around, it becomes easy again (just more expensive).
Personally I would still favor easy/non-damaging counter-measures, but not as aggressive as BIP110 that will clearly come back to bite us.

2026-02-28 04:12:31 UTC

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Resist to what? Personally, I would resist to bad engineering & bad faith, which in my view is *both* core v30 and BIP110.
If we keep going down that path, it could very well kill bitcoin. I want quality contributors & quality contributions. I think everyone should enforce have the same high standards.
I still think spam issues can be mitigated, but this needs to be done well by someone who's level-headed, not as some personal vendetta that doesn't care for the consequences.

2026-02-27 23:50:18 UTC

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Actually current block subsidies are about $200,000 so it's about $475 per transaction. It's impressive how much of the security is paid by monetary emission. Though otoh bitcoin price doubling every 4 years is enough to compensate the halving.

2026-02-27 23:30:33 UTC

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I saw that, not sure how accurate the "I could do one that respect BIP-110" claim is, since he didn't, but I guess that would be more of the same tricks.
I still fallback to the same idea that, just because you can't make it perfect doesn't mean you shouldn't try to improve it. I still think OP_RETURN should be capped and doing crazy shit should be made hard. Otoh I don't need to be convinced BIP-110 is a bad upgrade, since it's been my point all along.

2026-02-27 22:42:26 UTC

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No, what he's saying is that making it BIP-110 compatible requires more tricks but is nonetheless possible without breaking continuity.

2026-02-27 17:42:00 UTC

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I am not completely convinced of that continuity is meaningless. While are right that states & adversaries use csam against freedom projects, that's not a valid reason not to have measures against it. On the contrary, it is then quite logical to raise some defenses to limit their leverage.

2026-02-27 03:35:03 UTC

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This is not true: OP_RETURN has been uncapped at the consensus level since its introduction in 2014, the attack vector was open all along and everyone technical knew about it, including the press.
You are actually contradicting yourself by affirming both "OP_RETURN is not the only vector" and "v30 opened this attack vector"... in the same message 🤦.
You also reject that capping OP_RETURN would be a sufficient change, but pretends that RDTS is doing nothing more than reversing Core v30... 🤔
Since you can't ignore that your arguments are loaded with technical and logical fallacies, and since you are essentially taking your peers for manipulable morons, I can only conclude that the good of Bitcoin isn't the point here. Sad to see a long-term contributor go down such a path, but at this point this is clearly malicious behavior.
Thank you for your past contributions. May you someday come back to your senses. 🫡

2026-02-26 13:18:33 UTC

Ideology is the mind-killer. Ideology is the little death that brings total obliteration. I will face my ideology. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn to see ideology’s path. Where the ideology has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

2026-02-26 13:03:22 UTC

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Not at all, it was very interesting. If people can't read then they are the ones cutting themselves away from quality knowledge, and there's no fix to that. 🤔

2026-02-26 12:19:30 UTC

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This is exactly how you're supposed to feel during a bearmarket. That way, big finance can hoard up the coins while retail stays out of the game til the next FOMO 🤔

2026-02-26 08:50:01 UTC

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What I don't understand is, if contiguous, illegal content is the major concern here, why not exclusively focus on capping OP_RETURN and going for the kill? Why mixing it with additional restrictions that are addressing a different, less pressing issue, and that will objectively cause the whole thing to fail, when you had a clear shot at getting the high priority issue fixed?
Also, we've been aware of this attack vector for so many years? Why is it suddenly an emergency now, when even the press has been talking about it for at least a decade & contiguous illegal content could have been posted on chain anytime by a well organized adversary?
Finally, why pretending it's just reversing what core v30 did, when you can't ignore this bip is doing much more than that?

2026-02-26 05:07:01 UTC

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Curious if you can use this in a private way, possibly paying with lightning?

2026-02-25 23:28:19 UTC

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You are just being voluntary obtuse in order to win an argument. Anyone can pretend not to understand a point. Also, you talk like you are charge, but it's not like anyone is going to adjust anything at that point, right? It's just one small group trying to impose their views to everyone else no matter the disagreements, and going to fail achieving anything at all for that very reason. 🤔

2026-02-25 17:13:03 UTC

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Thank you for the good work! 👊

2026-02-25 17:09:13 UTC

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I feel like I didn't address your point. The bip110.org page clearly states that it is incompatible with BitVM, which I consider as a monetary use case.
The second thing, that's more technical and feeling a bit lazy to explain in detail, is that it forbids OP_IF in new tapleaves. Now, they say old transactions can still spend if they have that OP_IF, but it's not exactly true. Transactions can be chained — using pre-signed transactions — into multi-steps trees that are commited to ahead of time, and if one of these has as OP_IF in there, it'll be forbidden to be spend. I think it's a relatively marginal case, but I wouldn't say it's esoteric either. Bitcoin is an open system of programable money, and it's pretty likely that various people had build homemade contracts or small systems here and there having this in. If BIP110 were to pass, we would see some of the cases appear from time to time about funds blocked by it, from people being oblivious of the situation or the details of the forks.
Clearly this isn't my main reason to oppose BIP110, but it shows how sloppy that whole thing is. I'm much more concerned about the signal it would send to other builders working tirelessly to scale this thing, if a BIP hurting their work were to pass... Building on Bitcoin is demanding enough as it is; but having to secure funding for a tech that has just been made indefinitely impossible by some reckless fork is going to be a whole new level of pain.

2026-02-25 16:48:26 UTC

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Well, I think I did both in my previous notes. BitVM, Ark and lightning are all going to suffer from this, and we're not talking about some speculative work, we're talking about updates that have been researched & pending way longer than BIP110. The update process in Bitcoin is not about pushing & bullying but about proving to the community that your solution is the absolute best one we can think off, and that the downside have been carefully thought about.
So not only BIP110 is a bad upgrade, but it would indefinitely prevent other, much better designed upgrade that have properly been trying to build consensus for longer than it has. 🤔

2026-02-25 15:27:42 UTC

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Wouhou! My first zap, thank you friend 👍

2026-02-25 15:25:25 UTC

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Ah, thanks! Wallet wasn't linked. Mind trying now? 🙏

2026-02-25 15:23:49 UTC

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Sorry? 😁

2026-02-25 15:12:42 UTC

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Oh wow I would really love to see that

2026-02-25 14:04:21 UTC

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Honnestly I think it's hard to generalize the answer, because the non-monetary market oscillates between two states: hyped or dormant.
Hyped markets, such as during the inscription craze, can actually outprice monetary usage & that's precisely what caused all the resentment against these use cases - they are also incredibly hungry in block space and significantly deter scaling efforts, on a system that is already low throughput. Luckily, this state isn't sustainable - it's a bubble - but it's definitely a nuisance.
Dormant markets can definitely be outpriced, though the UTXO clutter and block burden from the past doesn't go anywhere, right? What's happening right now is that, because onchain activity is so low, miners will fill the blocks with whatever garbage at whatever price - which is always better than 0. In other words, for miners, there's always an incentive to fill the blocks no matter what. This is why I think we entered an era of forever-full blocks, because miners can now marginally stimulate markets that will buy the stranded block space for storage or meme.
This whole thing gives the statistical illusion that spam has been able to constantly occupy a significant portion of our blocks, and that it will be able to keep doing so; But that's conflating two different states of the market. In the first state, it was a real nuisance because it was outpricing bitcoin users, clogging the throughput. In the second, current state, it's not outpricing anyone, it's just that bitcoin is not being used at full capacity. Arguably, the spam market is now so weak that we could easily outprice it if more people were to use bitcoin - it's not clogging the throughput anymore, but it is definitely filling the blocks, adding unecessary weight to the blockchain.
My point in an earlier note was that, whether or not you manage to defeat that spam, it won't take long before the block fills again durably because of mass adoption. Either way, forever-full block is a state of things we'll have to adapt to. Now, if we could dodge another spam hype or two, that would definitely be a great thing — but doing so through a BIP that hurts bitcoin fundamentals & legitimate projects is definitely a bad trade.
Good engineering requires to be level-headed, patient, focused, and be willing to look at the problem from as many angles as possible in orders to discover the best trade-offs. Only the highest quality solutions should be allowed to make their way into bitcoin consensus. There's a reason why most proposal fails, and it's a very healthy state of things. :)

2026-02-25 09:09:21 UTC

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Well, you are right, the technical arguments matter more. My issues are:
- The restrictions are too aggressive and hurts moneraty use cases and scaling solutions, even though the authors are not fully honnest about this.
- Among other issues, the proposal blocks any further upgrade to the consensus, which we will need to improve scaling through Ark & Lightning. (imagine if it were to last...)
- I don't believe a temporary fix makes sense considering the risks that come with changing the consensus, I don't want Bitcoin to go for Monero-like yearly updates/debates.
- Moreover, temporary already implies the solution is known to suck, and no good solution is available yet. I prefer to wait for a proper fix and activate that.
I think it would be more sensible to go for straightfoward, atomic, consensual fixes and respect the process of convincing the community more widely, as previously accepted forks did. Of course it won't be possible to go as far in terms of restricting spam, but it will also avoid stupidely hurting our owns.

2026-02-25 08:53:28 UTC

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Oh ok I get your point now... Especially considering the price of RAM, agreed. Well, that would be an heavy hit in the nuts of ordinals for sure. Now, taproot assets creates the exact same type of UTXO fragmentation, and is it perfectly BIP110-compatible.
In any case, I think the previous wave is kind or dead, and BIP110 won't clean up the existing clutter... So the question is, will there be a new wave or not? And unfortunately the tools exist that would allow for one regardless of BIP110, so maybe there is a need for a different solution that specifically addresses low-value UTXO. (there is already an anti-dust policy that could be updated to higher values for example)

2026-02-25 08:45:08 UTC

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Not if both buckets are already full... Also it's not free if there's a fee 🤔.
Anyway, I don't need to be convinced that spam is a bad thing. My point was that preventing contiguous harmful content onchain should be the priority for obvious reasons. But I think I already went over my point extensively so probably we should stop here?

2026-02-25 08:12:36 UTC

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I think this is a bit disingenuous, because the tradeoff will be exactly the same a year from now. And that's the very reason why 'there's nothing more permanent than a temporary solution'.
I find it fascinating that both the BIP110 crew and the core v30 one borrow abundantly from the covid era rhetoric & strategies in order to impose non-consensual changes on the community.
You guys are really a beautiful pair! Going at each other's throats, but united in your belief that Bitcoin is yours to rule over... Unable to realize that the community's resistance is rooted in reasonable, logical, and poorly addressed objections

2026-02-24 16:30:33 UTC

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It just shows that 80% of the bloat nowadays comes from OP_RETURN, as I already explained. You really missed the point on that one.
Btw, just a few years from now, our blocks will be systematically full of monetary transaction because of adoption. Do you think it will cause bitcoin to collapse, or to the least to centralize completely? Or, in your view, are non-monetary transactions the only ones that can cause a node to struggle? Because if full blocks are a threat to bitcoin, then mass-adoption is a threat to bitcoin too, isn't it? Then maybe we should make sure Bitcoin never expands and never growths, just like BIP110 proposes... :)

2026-02-24 10:17:41 UTC

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That being said the cost of storage keeps getting lower and lower, but bitcoin block size is static, so all things consider it should only get easier to run nodes from now on.

2026-02-24 10:15:39 UTC

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I think putting a hard cap on OP_RETURNs would be the single best non-risky thing to do. However, I think bitcoin adoption will cause blocks to be mostly full a few years from now - and the fees to be much higher. So it would only buy some time & avoid harmful content onchain.

2026-02-23 16:50:58 UTC

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Well once again if you cap op_return, that leaves only witness-embedded spam that you can prune away. Your graph actually confirms that it doesn't amount to much, so I'm pretty confused about how you're reading it? The point is, we could have gotten rid of that op_return part with a simple, consensual fix but instead they wanted to push it too far to prove something, and what'll we get is no fix at all because this thing is crappy and won't activate.

2026-02-23 16:09:18 UTC

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I'm familiar with this but either ways the facts are not siding with the idea of an emergency. Most ordinal projects are dead, investors are ruined, and tx fees have been ridiculously low for months.
Besides, you are conflating two very different issues, just like BIP110 is doing. Capping OP_RETURN, which has outlived its utility, to protect nodes from hosting contiguous illegal content is arguably very important. Dealing with witness-embedded spam is secondary and optional. Witnesses can be pruned away, and it's not even sure jpegs are coming back. The were economically viable just because of a hype that is long gone and, would it come back, unsustainable by nature.
As I said, by trying to achieve aggressively everything at once, this BIP is not only harmful to legitimate monetary projects lead by genuine bitcoiners, it's also condemning itself to fail, missing an historic opportunity to fix a long-standing vulnerability.

2026-02-23 15:28:05 UTC

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I am opposed to core v30 for the exact same reasons I am opposed to BIP110: sloppy engineering forced through the community with poor arguments.
Btw, core v30 didn't enable posting contiguous harmful content on chain: it was enabled in 2013 by OP_RETURN, that was limitless at the consensus level from the start. And to be clear, the threat was well known all along. There are press articles from 2018/2019 that were FUDing about it during that bear. Anyone who's familiar with bitcoin, like Luke also is, has knew about this for years if not a decade — so why is it suddenly an emergency after all that time? Core 30 sucks and it shouldn't have happen - but it is simply not true that it made that attack viable, and anyone who thinks so is deeply miseducated about how bitcoin works.
All of this is just ego war and people wanting to feel great about themselves. If the priority was to protect bitcoin against this attack, then capping OP_RETURN size would have been enough, and much much more likely to pass. But ofc they had to overdo and turn this into a personal vendetta, and now the chances of fixing the actual important thing by the end or the year are 0.

2026-02-23 14:56:00 UTC

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Very nice :)

2026-02-23 14:45:46 UTC

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Maybe because different people have different opinions? Btw, this is not "my" framing, this is their framing:
"The one-year deployment allows the community to evaluate the impact while developers work on a longer-term solution. Some restrictions would severely constrain future upgrades if permanent, but are acceptable for a limited time to address the immediate crisis."
In other words, this solution sucks, but we have nothing better right now & there's an urgent matter that needs to be adressed right now. (which urgent matter, we are left to our imaginaion 😂)
Sincerely, I find it painful to discuss this matter with you since you talk like you know, and yet didn't even read the proposal itself. Also, that moving the goalpost each time proven wrong... That's not serious: Bitcoin deserves better considerations & care when it comes to touching the consensus. 🤔

2026-02-23 13:55:31 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/b2e63d222922eaaddb38b291772e88994ec516380c03c303ddeb75f4fd3c4bf5.jpg
I gave you my source. Also, I think you misunderstood how it works: it will prevent any consensus upgrade for the time it is active... And we all know how long emergency, temporary measures can last. Though in by view, "temporary" measures on something like Bitcoin make no sense start with. Either it's good and we keep it, either it's not and it never touches consensus. 🤔

2026-02-23 13:28:35 UTC

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Oh, Knots is definitely fine, thought you were talking about that BIP110 thing.

2026-02-23 13:22:50 UTC

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They might have good intentions, and curbing non-monetary uses is a great goal, but the execution is terrible, and this BIP would hurt bitcoin future if they had their way. Hurting by overprotecting... there was a pretty good video from Academy of Ideas about that theme 🤔

2026-02-23 13:06:07 UTC

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"The 257-byte control block limit constrains large Taptrees. Advanced smart contracts like BitVM may need to wait until [BIP110] expiry or use testnet/sidechains." source: bip110.org — though on the same page they also pretend that "All known monetary use cases remain fully functional and unaffected.", which is quite gross.
Btw, let me add that blocking consensus upgrades will also delay any covenant update, that are required for Ark to become viable, as well as to upgrade lightning... Since I assume we all know what "temporary emergency measure" means.
Pretty interesting consequences of a sloppy design... If prevent harmful content on the nodes was the point, cap-sizing OP_RETURN would have been sufficient, but ofc they had to overdo it to retaliate and show everyone who's the bitcoin boss, and now we have this mess instead... Lame. :(

2026-02-23 06:22:51 UTC

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A chain split will create two chains, like when Bitcoin Cash happened and lost the split. It became a minority chain no ones care about; anyway there were funds loss because at first transactions would happen on both chains at once and stuff like that, it was a messy process & we definitely don't need that now.

2026-02-23 05:40:43 UTC

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Initially Core V30 removed filters on OP_RETURN sizes that protects against spam. However, on the consensus level, OP_RETURN don't have a size limit so miners were already spamming data on chain anyway. Core V30 making this easier definitely sucks, especially considering the way they forced it despite community backslash, but the fact remains that the attack vector was there all along.
BIP110 is aiming at fixing that by making consensus changes, however it is poorly engineered and will also prevent several some of the most promising ways to scale bitcoin. Moreover, the way they're trying to force their bad solution through is hostile in itself and suggest that it is more about a personal vendetta than about bitcoin future. 🤔

2026-02-23 04:09:31 UTC

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2026-02-23 04:06:56 UTC

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Well, they won't need to if we severe out paths to growth all by ourselves. 😂

2026-02-23 03:55:53 UTC

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You're attitude is malicious in itself, regardless or whether you're right or wrong. I guess Bitcoin future is the least of your concerns and it's all about ego then. 🤔

2026-02-23 03:50:44 UTC

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They're both wrong and trying to impose they views on the community, they both need to be pushed back against.

2026-02-23 03:49:35 UTC

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Removing the OP_RETURN filter was wrong but BIP110 is sloppy engineer that will prevent scaling Bitcoin through BitVM & ARK. Way to shoot ourselves in the foot buddy.

2026-02-23 03:46:18 UTC

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Sure.
1- It will ban BitVM, a legitimate Bitcoin project and promising scaling avenue. According to bip110.org: "The 257-byte control block limit constrains large Taptrees. Advanced smart contracts like BitVM may need to wait until expiry or use testnet/sidechains." However, they also claim that they want to "All known monetary use cases remain fully functional and unaffected.", which is obviously deceptive.
2- It will prevent running other soft forks. They claim it's not an issue since it's "temporary" and "the process takes more than a year anyway", though there are convenants proposals that are following this process already and are needed to make Ark, another promising scaling solution, fully functional. I think there's a theme here.
3- They say it's temporary and only a year, just to see how it goes... However, either it's a good solution - then why temporary? Either it's a poorly-engineer/understood solution, or at least not something people would want as a permanent thing - then it should pass at all. We all now what "temporary means" in this "emergency contextes". The rhetoric itself is problematic, pushing temporary changes to an immutable ledge is as well, obviously.
4- They want to force-through, just like Core v30 did, in an escalation of bad engineering and poorly thought arguments. This *is* an attack in bitcoin.

2026-02-23 03:36:41 UTC

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Well, except BitVM who've been working hard on scaling Bitcoin and will be banned from building onchain cause...?

2026-02-23 03:33:41 UTC

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That would the the obvious fix. These guys should have back off in the first place, not sure what's wrong with them.

2026-02-23 03:30:28 UTC

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And BitVM... lol.

2026-02-22 14:31:13 UTC

Core V30 was a forced-through, misengineered update that will bloat the chain. Thus, some people thought they'd fix it by forcing through a misengineered soft fork that will bloat the consensus and the clients, killing bitVM as a bonus, because why would the other guys be the only one stupidly messing with bitcoin right??
This forcing through thing has to stop. You guys *are* the actual attack. 👊

2026-02-12 02:59:39 UTC

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Using an argument of authority is itself brainless. There use to be an expert "consensus" that the earth is flat, or that you gotta bleed someone to help him recover from sicknesses. Using such a poor argument only shows you don't have much supporting your point...
Besides, what that "expert consensus" really is is just an active, vocal minority forcing through, isn't it? 🤔