SUPREME on Nostr: Meanwhile, back when Samourai’s Whirlpool CoinJoin used a 46-byte OP_RETURN (Knots ...
Meanwhile, back when Samourai’s Whirlpool CoinJoin used a 46-byte OP_RETURN (Knots default was 42), his Bitcoin Knots node software and Ocean mining pool made those privacy transactions harder to relay and get mined. He called it bad design and spam, not something worth accommodating. So how exactly does making on-chain CoinJoin privacy more difficult protect Bitcoin from becoming centralized and surveilled like a CBDC?
Real privacy tools like Whirlpool are one of the best defenses we have against chain analysis and the control CBDCs are built on. You don’t fight fake decentralized money by kneecapping the actual privacy that keeps Bitcoin fungible and sovereign.
The “Bitcoin dies without my rules” crowd keeps revealing their priorities.
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