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[BOOTOSHI 👑 @KingBootoshi]

THE BOOS ARE COMING ALIVEEEEEE

[EYE @NFTSNWEB3]

most people from 2021 that i was trading with is gone except for the real ones

[Anne_Termine @Anne_Termine]

Did a thing…

Bored Ape Yacht Club

[Sharbel @sharbel]

chatgpt has ads now. let that sink in.

the tool 300 million people use to think just became an ad platform.

free users and $8/month go users see ads. you can opt out, but you get fewer messages.

this is the exact same playbook as every social network:
1. build something useful
2. get everyone hooked
3. monetize their attention

but here's what's different: when instagram shows you an ad, you scroll past it. when your AI assistant shows you an ad, where do you go?

the gap between AI users and AI operators just got wider.

[Tenacious @TenaciousBit]

Okay now I want one

[craigscoinpurse @craigscoinpurse]

Backing the truck up buying bitcoin if she taps $42k

[Richard Nadler @RichardNadler1]

GM! HabiTextures #3 available via SuperRare: https://t.co/IptLINiTcb

[Snorlax @PlutonicXBT]

My brother in christ a 50% sell-off on Bitcoin is not an idiosyncratic event, the market is telling you the MOAS is coming or already here

[PARIN @ParinHeidari]

Available on @TransientLabs, you can mint an edition or more here: https://t.co/U7iv2ZUvBL

[trade.xyz @tradexyz]

AMD is now live. 10x leverage, 24/7, 365.

Trade [AMD]: https://t.co/RH7ulBU0UM

[Alpha Whale Crypto (Poyraz Yashar) @AlphaWhale_]

Feeling bullish for #crypto these days.
All sentiments are bullish in my soul

[CɅM @CamPauldingYT]

FINALLY pulled this.

Centering is 🗑 but I LOVE this card.

[Animecoin @animecoin]

what is the BEST anime opening of all time?

[alexjm 🇺🇸 @alexjmingolla]

Gm cryptocurrency enthusiasts

[Tenacious @TenaciousBit]

The most interesting story unfolding on @solana right now is @neukoai btw

[The Kobeissi Letter @KobeissiLetter]

BREAKING: The Federal Reserve has officially ended quantitative tightening (QT).

[Isabel Foxen Duke⚡️ @isabelfoxenduke]

BITCOIN RAILS #43: A HISTORY OF “SPAM” on BITCOIN | with @peterktodd

🔗 YOUTUBE: https://t.co/XFG5Rezx0J
🌿 SPOTIFY: https://t.co/GfUiY4DszT

“You cannot prevent arbitrary data from being published in Bitcoin transactions. Even at the consensus level…It’s mathematically impossible.”

Legendary Bitcoin contributor since 2009 and self-described "weirdo with a fine arts degree," Peter Todd joins me to unpack the endless wars over Bitcoin's "true purpose," his pioneering work putting "spam" on the blockchain, and why he believes attempts to filter transactions are just “silly.”

In this episode, we get deep into the history of using Bitcoin for data storage - which goes back, at least, to the development of Namecoin in 2011. Relatedly, we cover the history and long-fought governance battles around OP_RETURN, relay policy, and our community's evolving definitions of "arbitrary data.

Suffice it to say, the Filter Wars of 2024/25 are not new... they are simply one battle in a decade+ war we unpack in detail in this context-rich episode of Bitcoin Rails.

In more detail, this episode covers:

- The development of Open Time Stamps + Bitcoin's use in validating election data and beyond.
- OPRETURN battles of the early days... and how its use has evolved over the past decade.
- Why Bitcoin Core "should not try to censor transactions" and the "performance art project" (Libre Relay) that shows why.
- Bitcoin as a "replicated database" and why blockchains may legitimately be useful outside of sound money.
- Why preventing arbitrary data on Bitcoin is "mathematically impossible" ...and trying to stop it is only distracting us from "more important" efforts, like the Great Consensus Cleanup @darosior.

This episode of Bitcoin Rails is powered by:
- Best In Slot (@bestinslotxyz) — the leading API for Ordinals and BRC-20 data aggregation and indexing.
- Spark (@lightspark) — a statechains implementation advancing Bitcoin-powered payments.
- Citrea (@citrea_xyz) — the leading Bitcoin rollup technology and BitVM alliance contributor.

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:19 Bitcoin Early Days
03:44 OpenTimestamps Project
12:22 Governance and Bitcoin Protocol Debates
26:36 The Blockchain Use Case Argument
35:46 Transaction Version Numbers and Standardization
38:30 Preventing Exploits and DDoS Attacks
40:10 Relay Policies and Economic Decisions
42:00 The Taproot Annex and OP_RETURN
45:07 Libre Relay
01:01:18 Future of Bitcoin and Soft Fork Proposals

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