hot take: if you add up all of Luke Dashjrs "contributions" to bitcoin, incl killing Counterparty, which then led to Bitcoin's death as an asset layer and the creation of Ethereum, think we have passed now passed into deeply negative territory

@BitcoinErrorLog Financial sanctions have been controversial forever. You know what's not controversial? FUCKING CHILD PORN. The only people that don't hate it are pedophiles. Holy shit it's incredible that you clowns are literally incapable of discerning the difference between these. Incredible.

@JERM3575 @JohnCleese Britain is supporting war against Christian Russia because they are atheists and Islamists.

Shit this has been on the blockchain since 2013? Don't open the opreturn in mixed company https://t.co/XctxABePeg

your shitcoin-on-bitcoin protocol hasn't really made it until there's a dedicated filter in Bitcoin Knots

I've been hesitating to post something like this at the risk of being canceled, but whatever, here it goes: Back in the earlier Bitcoin days (2013 for me), we often thought of altcoins as a sort of testnet. Good ideas that were implemented in certain altcoins may, eventually,

@LukeDashjr if a single instance of illegal content is genuinely an existential threat to Bitcoin, surely DATUM is an intolerable risk? before you'd need cooperation from a major pool like this, but now anyone can literally get paid by Ocean to quietly work on their own attack block.

Its been 18 hours since someone pushed this valid transaction with a full jpeg in op_return. For most of those 18 hours, the fee rate was sufficient for it to be considered "next block." But it hasn't been mined yet. The reason it hasn't been mined is because of filters, which

this transaction embeds a 57.3kb animated gif across 1859 fake P2WSH outputs. lucky it wasn't in an op_return!

becoming more convinced that there's something fundamental in conflict, and that the internet physics of this are that A) prioritizing fighting spam conflicts with B) privacy and uncensorability. Pick 1.