This Day on SN: August 1 \ stacker news ~meta

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#631625 on 7 years ago today, the Bitcoin community activated Segwit by Luke Dashjr
- 267 sats \ 1 reply \ @endothermicdev \ August 1, 2024
  
  I really appreciate Luke's general perspective and willingness to roll his own client, but this is a bad take. One man's blockchain spam is another man's treasured bible verses. Who's to decide what's worthy of mining? There's no moralizing on this - let's allow the fee market to decide. Ultimately, you can't keep people from putting dumb stuff on the blockchain. I'd rather they at least be obvious about it and keep it in op_returns, otherwise we're back to bloating the utxo set with forever unspendable transactions, increasing the burden on all nodes. [...]
#217147 on SN post-mortem: crazy rewards
- 591 sats \ 19 replies \ @k00b \ August 1, 2023
  
  I know who they are. They've even done a user interview with us before. [...]
#52816 on how to prevent this place from getting overrun by altcoiners?
- 1560 sats \ 6 replies \ @udiWertheimer \ August 1, 2022
  
  hey everyone, my first post here [...]
#714 on Lesser known and super cool Lightning tools
- 2 sats \ 0 replies \ @0391398253 \ August 1, 2021
  
  Stacker need an option to tip users directly. [...]

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