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100 sats \ 12 replies \ @kruw 25 Sep \ parent \ on: Is it theocratic sex prohibition to be against sex with a 4 year old? Discuss... bitcoin
Why don't you have a problem with CSAM after your node downloads and validates it?
Because as a matter of trade offs, if I didn't relay it then it's not my responsibility.
I accept that CSAM exists even if I do my best to prevent it from being propagated. Core v30 actively supports it at the expense of bitcoin as a monetary network.
See the distinction?
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if I didn't relay it then it's not my responsibility.
Regulations against CSAM punish the consumer of the content, not just the distributor.
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Then don't run a full node. What applies to me applies to you.
I'm not concerned with the punishment, I'm concerned with my moral responsibility. If it's validated on a distributed Blockchain I can't stop anyone from accessing it. I accept it as part of the Blockchain forever, and I would attempt to ensure that whichever miner validated the block incurs some reputational or financial penalty.
Having said that, not everyone running a node is as pragmatic as me, and CSAM on the Blockchain would reduce the number of full nodes, so that would be very bad.
Bitcoin is for everyone, including theocratic authoritarians.
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I would attempt to ensure that whichever miner validated the block incurs some reputational or financial penalty.
That's exactly what Bitcoin Purifier does: It financially penalizes any miner that creates a block containing spam by rejecting it.
So it's your MORAL RESPONSIBILITY to stop running Knots and start running Pure.
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Thanks, I wasn't aware of this.
But this is at the relay level, not after validation. It can't reject valid blocks without forking bitcoin.
I don't think moral purity is a good reason to fork bitcoin right now, but I do think it's a good reason to try to influence what blocks make me longest chain in future.
I guess that bitcoin purifier is also theocratic authoritarianism though, so aside from helping me I don't know how it supports Greg's argument.
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Without shooting my gun how can I influence your movement.
If enough people don't relay a transaction then the longest chain will not always by built on the most financially lucrative transactions, meaning fees for spam get pushed up the more moral nodes exist on the network.
Fees for spam are high today, with technical hurdles, which is why they go to other blockchains.
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