Putting aside the whole knots thing, Bitcoin Mechanic says a lot in this video that needs to be heard. I don't really have strong feelings on the filters, and I don't always like listening to him, but I really liked this.
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653 sats \ 9 replies \ @optimism 14h
If Mechanic stops mentioning filters every 30-60 seconds, like he says he should himself, the rant would be much better, imho.
When conflicts like this happens in FOSS, in 99.99% of the time, a project forks off. In Bitcoin, that doesn't have to mean forking the chain, especially since these conflicts aren't over consensus. Think #1070784. What's funny in this situation is that technically, Knots already is a forked repo, so I'm not sure why all the drama. If you don't like what Core did, don't port it to Knots?
I think bottom line... fuck the drama. Knots already exists. It implements the filters that Mechanic can't shut up about. All good, let's move on.
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100 sats \ 7 replies \ @028559d218 14h
The filterers don't want to run another client. They don't want a "forked repo"... They don't want to 'co-exist' with Core...
They think Core is "captured" and "corrupted" Mechanic has said it himself they want a total takeover so that everyone runs knots. "Then" Bitcoin will be pure again.
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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @anon 9h
Maybe core is captured. Why the are they trying to make shitcoining easy on bitcoin. The pr that kicked this off was specific to a shitcoin problem not a node problem.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @optimism 2h
I think its partially neutered, not captured. And yes, that was done by a scammer, CSW. Core cannot exert control over policy like in the early days, and that's a situation that we will all have to live with.
The PR that kicked off the conflict was Luke's filter PR that got NAKd. The current situation, despite it being fueled by misinformation, is okay. If you need a specific policy on your node, run a node software that implements that.
Instead of endless drama, all that energy would be better spent making knots better. Hardening the processes. If it is true that the installed base of knots has grown from 1% to 18%, then there's 18x the responsibility now. Plenty of work to be done, so everyone stfu and work hard.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 8h
Please see this post here #1079571
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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @optimism 14h
That's no purity. Pure bitcoiners decode blocks with pen and paper and write txs with a hex editor.
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100 sats \ 2 replies \ @028559d218 14h
Furthermore... the things that Mechanic says are not true. I am not a fan of Monero I don't trust it, however saying that XMR has been 'completely captured' is ridiculous.
Is it less secure? Is its security compromised? Yes absolutely. It looks really fragile that some random ****coin can do so much damage...
However it's not a 51% attack. Also, the price has dropped. They are literally selling it under market to get out of it on Robosats in large quantities go look yourself.
The phrase "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" comes to mind.
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100 sats \ 1 reply \ @optimism 13h
I think that there is no way to fix the divide anymore, but that's not to blame on a single side in this conflict. Both sides chose escalation, both sides are in an echo chamber.
I think he's right saying that "this" (I'd call it polarization) is a much larger problem than just specific to bitcoin or "filters"; it's a societal trend and it sucks and I have no answers. He's also right in some of his assertions about how Bitcoin has changed since 2013, and I agree with him that it's not for the better in many aspects. Except one really important thing that he ignores while saying it's about people: some of the new blood - that weren't around in 2013 - are really awesome and doing great work, no matter if you like them or their politics. And that's exactly what the polarization does: it makes people biased and prejudiced.
I too am biased. I too have become much more toxic than I used to be. But at least I know it and I try to correct it if I go too far. I haven't seen anyone in this conflict admit that maybe they've been taking things too far. And that's why this won't be fixed, so it's better to move on.
From the little I've read, it sounded like it's literally a 51% attack by some second or third order shitcoin? Bitcoiners have the luxury to hang back while this plays out, and analyze this when there's more clarity. We can always red-team how to apply this to Bitcoin. But would be useless to do it while it is still ongoing. Should just capture data.
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0 sats \ 0 replies \ @028559d218 12h
Something that appealed to me so much about Bitcoin... is its technical foundation. I don't have to care about someone's politics or how they vote or the color of their skin or what they feel about certain 'issues'...
Do they have the keys or not? And do they want to pay for the blockspace or not? It's "pay up or shut up" and that gives people a remarkable ability to ignore the noise.
It's the "GFY money" of our time... the traders/financiers and "bitcoin treasury companies" can go **** themselves with their conferences. Do they have the keys or not according to a verified download of Bitcoin Core on an old laptop the rest is irrelevant.
I can't stand twitter anymore I completely deleted it. Even Nostr i generally ignore, unless its news or something software related from some developer...
I choose to "focus on my craft" stack sats usually non-kyc and CoinJoin. That's it.
If the morons want to play "bitcoin treasury company" I could give a **** I do not endorse any new opcodes at this time and in no way shape or form want a "block size increase." Why?
Scammers will scam that's what they do... they will come and go. What they can't do is get Bitcoin for free, break consensus, or guess private keys (not without some kind of quantum computer).
I can't stand shitcoins. I have written about them, the disease that is "crypto" on SN many times and how it confuses people and how the Trump administration is whitewashing unregistered securities. The whole thing (all the unregistered securities) will eventually collapse they are based on thin air it's not if it's when.
Having said that... I still don't care.
I've never once not ever bought a shitcoin I have zero interest in them, and at the end of the day the degens will waste their money, suffer massive opportunity costs paying transactional fees and the network will march on.
All the millions wasted paying for arbitrary data in late 2023... on "inscriptions" and "NFTs" where did that go? To the miners.
Who have less Bitcoin? The scammers.
The scammers have less and the hodlers/stackers more the rest is noise.
What always concerned me about XMR... was this idea that 'the devs will fix it' or "the next hardfork will make it OK"....
Really? So why exactly who are these devs? How do they get consensus to change things? And what happens if you "don't agree" with the changes? The vulnerabilities IMO go far beyond the qubic attack, and strike at whether the network can be easily changed and that never sat right with me.
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100 sats \ 0 replies \ @Scoresby 12h
This is a pretty spot on summary.
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