You can’t explain Bitcoin to someone who doesn’t understand money in the first place.
No awareness of the problem = zero appreciation for the solution.
That’s why most people dismiss bitcoin.
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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. 🧵