If the developers are able to censor Bitcoin, then they will become required to censor Bitcoin. The knots protocol is dangerous.

Filters have been used since the beginning. They were not a threat then, and they are not a threat now. The term “censorship-resistance” refers to the fact that anyone can transact. It doesn’t mean add arbitrary non-monetary data.

If miners/nodes can coordinate to exclude a class of transactions, that’s censorship in principle. And once the norm becomes “we filter X,” the scope of X can expand under pressure. So even “filters for good reasons” create a censorship surface.

This is a ridiculous statement, try to figure it out. Here is a hint stupid...

It’s dangerous only to the financial health of your practice. He’s wrong - if you prune the OP_R Returns you can’t run an archival node that would allow bootstrapping new nodes. And decentralization would be compromised.

Respectfully you’re married to a tap root wizard, might want to sit this one out.

Just stop

The Final Boss showed this video to a few of my friends who dabble in #crypto via #Bitcoin. Andreas saying this basically convinced all three of my friends that 'Whoever Knots people are, they are likely pedo's and should be banned from Bitcoin". Andrea's did his job very well.

He was amazing in the early days! I listened to him for many hours! (till he went off track with the mastering eth stuff).

@FollowJay Is this the I love Eth book author. Im bitcoin only.

@FollowJay

@RubenOr34985586 Account based systems are inferior to UTXO-based for a litany of reasons. #BTC is seeing its day in the sun after a decade of innovation was stifled so a litany of low-value chains could pop up and grift the public. Also, Little Nicky and Turning completeness..

There’s a better solution, one that doesn’t even involve censorship at all. Fix ALL bugs in the Bitcoin code that allow non-monetary data in a transaction. That approach was submitted by @lukedashjr two years ago and REJECTED by Core as “too controversial”. 🤔

Seems to me that Knots is an attempt to save Bitcoin from its inevitable abandonment when CSAM gets locked into the Bitcoin blockchain, forcing every node runner to then host CSAM 🫣

@440UrPp Censorship has always been part of Bitcoin in regatds to transaction relay. Only the blockchain itself is immutable and censorship resistant. Filters on consensus and policy restrict data relay so less JPEG's bloat the chain.

The author of “Mastering Ethereum” has spoken… Feel sorry that this legend is no longer serving humanity well.

Nick was pro eth too

Nick liked eth too

Good thing bitcoin is censorship resistant. And even 80-90% running knots wont do anything to censor txs that have economic demand.

“Paying the fee” makes a non-monetary Bitcoin transaction (spam/CSAM) not more valid than paying postage makes junkmail valid. Paid or not, it's still junkmail, so that’s why we have spamfilters. There is only one "valid" use of Bitcoin: money. It’s NOT a general database.

@adam3us Retarded.

Disincentivizing retarded shitcoinery is not censorship, it's efficiency

If developers are able to change Bitcoin to whatever they want, then we are not sovereign with an immutable form of money.

I noticed most agreeing you are "crypto" and "eth" people

lol

The legend himself! Hey Sasha can I ask please, was this recent from Andreas?

I think so, it was on his patreon

Bitcoin is a monetary network. Not some place to post your boob pics, woman.

Preserving intended usecase != censorship. For the nth time, a reasonable OP_RETURN would have been acceptable for everybody. Core's behavior is dangerous. His point about pruning also doesn't make sense. Without archival nodes you wouldn't have a blockchain anymore.

Really getting sick of if this hyperbolic censorisp altruism bs.

Bitcoin requires core to censor it from spam. Bitcoin needs to remain uncensorable money, but spam bloat can frustrate Bitcoin's main purpose by filling blocks with non financial TX's. So, we will frutrate the spam, not the other way around. #RunningKnots

Yes. #NotKnots

You don’t even know what the protocol does. Try harder.

"One person's spam is another person's content." Nah. GTFO.

Luke is certifiably batshit. #NotKnots

oh wow haven't seen Andreas in while. legend.

Not even a possibility. It’s FOSS.

"Censor" in this case is only about random data that has nothing to do with financial or economic transaction data... Fucking hell, there is already a pornhub and a dark web for weirdos, I refuse to let my node host CSAM, fuck you.

Who is this guy?

@adam3us Hello handsome

@cryptorebel_SV you may want to quote what Antonoplis calls bible vs here...

"Spam is subjective" "Knotzis." Where else have we heard these kinds of things? These CoreTards will not listen to logic or reasoning. They need to just leave bitcoin, and make their own spam-ridden, CP blockchain.