@BitcoinSapiens This is old... Although there is a lesson in there and it should be taken seriously, I think stories like this do more harm by scaring normies and noobs away from self custody.
Other than that, it feels like your account only reposts shit we've all seen/heard a zillion times.
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In 2025 Bitcoin Core removed a decade-old mempool policy default — a configurable limit on how much non-financial data nodes would relay. OP_RETURN was effectively uncapped.
Not a consensus rule. A default setting. But defaults govern what most of the network does. Which governs what miners see. Which governs what gets mined.
The justification: it wasn’t working anyway, data was getting in through a loophole.
What wasn’t disclosed: that loophole had been deliberately kept open.
Here’s the documented sequence. 🧵
Following the major success of the vaccine mandates during COVID, they're now rolling this out. I suppose the same people will just follow along and comply as before.
BREAKING 🚨 UK government makes Digital IDs mandatory: 'You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have a digital ID, it's as simple as that.'