The sheer pussification of Bitcoiners is disgusting. Many openly state they don't support BIP-110 not because of the technical or moral considerations, but because they don't think it will "win".
What the fuck is this luke-warm, soy-latte, blue-hair, pronouns-in-bio fuckwittery?
As I am blocked by @adam3us for giving decent and irrevokable counters to many of his anti-filter and BIP110 claims, I'll do it this way:
Yes Adam, you are right. You cannot censor the entire internet.
... but you can still use filters and selective peering to avoid exposure to malicious website and immoral content. It is a practice inherent to any internet user.
The same applies to Bitcoin.
We support BIP110, or run KNOTS, to avoid relaying malicious unwanted data.
The internet users have firewalls and adblockers.
Bitcoin has policy settings and consensus rules. BIP110 makes consensus more strict for a safer Bitcoin network.
My long time friend @hodlonaut is probably the most high-integrity person I've ever known.
When Faketoshi sued him, he could have surrendered and not have half a decade of his life stolen. Instead he chose to fight, because he knew it was the right thing to do.
Over the last couple of months, he's poured his heart and soul into exposing the corruption and woke-creep in Bicoin Core.
Stuff that my other candidate for highest-integrity-person-I-know, @jonatack, became a whistleblower about back in January.
Btw, neither @hodlonaut nor @jonatack have ever sought fame or even public recognition, afaik.
IMO, every bitcoiner on Earth should at least be interested in what's been revealed in @hodlonaut's articles, which are all based on public information.
What I find so baffling is the number of public bitcoiners outside of Core that are so quick to come to Core's defense and call the articles "slop" and "clickbait."
The way I see it, these people fall into three main categories;
1) people who don't know @hodlonaut
2) people with a vested interest in spam/scam/crypto businesses
3) cowards
I know a lot of people personally that I really hope fall under category 1), because the backlash @hodlonaut is getting from simply trying to expose a handful of uncomfortable truths is truly depressing to see.
DYOR, but don't dismiss others' R as slop before you've done your own!
Imagine thinking Matt Kratter, Jeff Booth, and Hodlonaut could all the bad actors but Shinobi of Bitcoin Magazine, Tone Vays, and cloud mining scammer & suitcoiner & Epstein Islander Adam Back are the good guys protecting bitcoin.
1) BIP110 is not a content filter. It bans ALL content. Bitcoin is not a platform for content.
2) The network has always been able to filter spam. That's how decentralisation works. It has nothing to do with censorship resistance.
3) Censorship resistance is the ability for anyone to mine their own block. Bitcoin lost that a decade ago. I started OCEAN specifically to address that problem. https://t.co/2UvIGAySw7
4) Bitcoin works by users enforcing the rules. User vigilance was always the security model. That's not new, and not news to anyone who understands how Bitcoin works. It's the original design.
@SimplyBitcoin There's no debate. BIP110 is happening. No counter-fork is proposed, so it's uncontested. And even if there was, BIP110 is the obvious right choice.
On the wild plains of Bitcoin Twitter, two specimens of the Griftus Influencus ReplyGuyus genus are observed in their natural habitat.
The first, the Loppus Corporatus, is a sleek, Citrea-backed predator with glowing eyes and a wallet full of Layer 2 dreams. It circles the neutral Jimmy Song with smug confidence. ‘You don’t know enough about Bitcoin…’ it hisses.
Close behind lurks the elder Backus Andus, the silver-haired survivor of tropical island networking trips and famously generous mining notes yields.
‘Touché! Touché!’ he cackles, slapping his knee like a seal who’s just sold a pre-sale allocation and locked in sweet insider profits.
Together they patrol the discourse on X, desperate to keep the herd in line and prevent potential independent thinkers wandering off the Core reservation.
Calling BIP-110 an "attack on Bitcoin" is backwards.
If BIP-110 passes:
• Supply stays at 21 million.
• Proof of Work is unchanged.
• Wallets, Lightning, multisig, and self-custody work exactly as before.
• No coins are confiscated.
• No addresses are censored.
The primary effect is that large arbitrary data used by Ordinals, Runes, and similar protocols would no longer be valid.
That's not an attack on Bitcoin's monetary system.
It's a debate over what belongs on Bitcoin.