reply on: Is it theocratic sex prohibition to be against sex with a 4 year old? Discuss... \ stacker news ~bitcoin

pull down to refresh

200 sats \ 26 replies \ @kruw 25 Sep \ on: Is it theocratic sex prohibition to be against sex with a 4 year old? Discuss... bitcoin

What if you want to inhibit ... content ...?

If you want to inhibit content, you have to fork the blockchain.

What part of my social contract with this censorship resistant monetary network makes stipulated that if I want to run a node with a very low OP_RETURN limit to inhibit complete (not fragments) content of any sort of media format from getting mined then I am to be classified as a theocratic authoritarian?

That part is called "the consensus rules"

If this is true then why isn't Iran's revolutionary guard - who actively mines bitcoin using state resources - running millions of relaying nodes today to overwhelm the network and censor bitcoin? This crude sybil attack is not as difficult as a 51% attack, and far more sustainable.

Bitcoin Core maps providers to make sure your node has a diverse set of peers in order to prevent this sort of attack.

Maybe you should fork off with your pedo coin and leave us with our theocratic authoritarian coin?

I agree, here's the software you need to run for your fork: https://github.com/rot13maxi/bitcoin-purifier

31 sats \ 1 reply \ @supratic 25 Sep

here's the software you need to fork: https://github.com/rot13maxi/bitcoin-purifier

Interesting, does this clean data from blocks that are already validated too?

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @ek 25 Sep

It rejects these blocks

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @fourrules OP 25 Sep

Bitcoin Core maps providers to make sure your node has a diverse set of peers in order to prevent this sort of attack.

Then why not make it optional, why risk negative unforeseen consequences with a radical change to a default that has been in place and supporting bitcoin's dominance as a monetary network for 15 years.

0 sats \ 21 replies \ @fourrules OP 25 Sep

That part is called "the consensus rules"

Those relate to bitcoin as a monetary network, not a distributed database of spam and CSAM.

0 sats \ 20 replies \ @kruw 25 Sep

So you're going to change the consensus rules and fork off then, right?

0 sats \ 19 replies \ @fourrules OP 25 Sep

Nobody is arguing about consensus rules

100 sats \ 18 replies \ @kruw 25 Sep

Yes you are, here's the conclusion of your original post:

Maybe you should fork off with your pedo coin and leave us with our theocratic authoritarian coin?

So if you aren't running the pure version of Bitcoin right now, then you are GUILTY!

0 sats \ 17 replies \ @fourrules OP 25 Sep

That was a rhetorical response to the ridiculousness of suggesting that running filters leads to theocratic authoritarianism.

How about this, if you run Core v30 you are a pedophile propagating CSAM. Doesn't that sound stupid? Even so, it is more literally true than the slippery slope of theocratic authoritarianism.

100 sats \ 16 replies \ @kruw 25 Sep

That was a rhetorical response

It's not rhetorical at all. Forking is the exact solution to the problem you are whining about.

0 sats \ 15 replies \ @fourrules OP 25 Sep

The exact solution is promoting knots and helping people to understand the nuances of deterministic and probabilistic (pragmatic) solutions that you seem incapable of or unwilling to grasp.

(My money is on unwilling)

100 sats \ 14 replies \ @kruw 25 Sep

You're wrong, you have to run Bitcoin Pure to fork the blockchain. Knots syncs to the same chain as Core, so your node will download the exact same data.