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0 sats \ 3 replies \ @Scoresby 8 Sep \ parent \ on: Murch and Chris have a conversation - What is Going on Here??? bitcoin
because filters don't work.
They haven't done it because the defense doesn't work?
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What's to keep a government from spooling up their OWN nodes, and lots of them in a cloud with their own relay policies that start to censor certain kinds of transactions?
You ask:
So why haven't they done it?
I answer: because they recognize that doing it wouldn't achieve anything, because filters do not prevent transactions from getting mined on a censorship resistant network.
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Because doing so wouldn't implicate existing nodes in the propagation of CSAM. Changing the default policies in Bitcoin Core would implicate nodes in CSAM propagation. Bitcoin Core is so synonymous with Bitcoin that if it is corrupted in this way then not even Knots users could cleanse themselves of me taint associated with the Core users, including most of the miners, relaying such transactions.
The sybil attack you're describing simply isn't worth to effort, it would defeat itself. They need us to stab ourselves in the eye and you are willing entertain the idea for them.
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