20 sats \ 4 replies \ @jeff 28 Apr 2023 \ on: A message to bitcoin devs regarding CSW bitcoin
The premise of his ask is absurd for so many reasons.
a) Nobody should be able to compel somebody to do work.
b) If he was Satoshi, he could do it himself.
c) Nobody would run the software (except him?).
a) it’s not compulsory, it’s voluntary to prove a point
b / c) exactly, exactly
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Send a PR?
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It'd also "prove" CSW's point that Bitcoin can be seized by courts. How long until the state itself sees this and starts pressuring miners and developers to include such functionality to let them seize bitcoin by court-order? I remember hearing something for example about how the US government wants hashrate to concentrate there so they can start asking miners to censor transactions from NK wallets, and eventually start orphaning blocks that contain censored transactions once there's a large enough % of hashrate in the US
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Except none of that is truly feasible, which is why it wouldn’t matter even if CSW wins.
It’s like saying the state is going to write new rules for chess and produce a bunch of board games with the new instructions in the box.
No one is going to be forced to give a shit about the new instructions.
You can’t do what CSW wants to do without hard forking bitcoin. That’s why it’s vital for as many people to run nodes as possible. We’re the keepers of the original ledger. We don’t have to play by the fake rules.
Regarding miners, the worst case is the US government spends an insane amount of money to DOS the blockchain until they can’t sustain that anymore, or until they realize they could be making money via transaction fees instead. It’s a losing battle to mine empty blocks or coerce miners.
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