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it was a straw man: people who called him out for printing tokens and selling them for bitcoin were close minded
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Hi Anthony,
Since you did not reply to my DM about right of reply questions for my last article, I will try to reach you here.
On the topic of spam and spammers:
May 2, 2025: instagibbs files the OP_RETURN uncap PR #32406. Eleven seconds after the bot announces it in #bitcoin-core-dev IRC channel, instagibbs writes "fanquake please lock for now."
fanquake locks the PR within the same minute. You then add the "Needs release note" label to the now-locked PR.
Fifteen minutes later you joke on IRC about labels being a way to "inscribe comments via github label edits."
Four operational acts by three devs that were instrumental in the OP_RETURN uncap sequence, inside a sixteen-minute window. The PR was filed, lock-requested, locked, and label-administered before any community engagement could begin.
Four questions:
1: Was the sequence prearranged?
2: Do you consider this a proper and responsible way to conduct Bitcoin development on a contested protocol change?
3: Considering the great controversy and polarization, was your inscription joke fitting for the moment?
4: The same three of you, you and instagibbs and fanquake, ACKed and merged PR #27832 in June and August 2023, the documentation amendment that narrowed the scope of -datacarriersize, later used to close Luke's filter patch. The same three then executed the May 2 sequence on and around the PR that would uncapOP_RETURN. Coincidence?
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The lottery/solo pool @AtlasPool_io just hit a new personal best difficulty of 66.5 T today, May 31, 2026.
We're especially proud because DTV Electronics was the first to ship miners with Atlas Pool pre-configured out of the box.
The numbers keep climbing, and at this rate, a solo block find feels very close. Fingers crossed it happens soon!