Mike

Blockspace free market maximalist.

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2025-12-31 20:50:55 UTC

Hey @npub18m7…q955 this is a scam right?
#note15ux…s7ut

2025-11-18 19:30:33 UTC

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That's what they want

2025-11-18 14:47:12 UTC

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Thanks for your reply. I can’t reach Satoshi’s Number right now (Cloudflare?) but I do see a payout in Arkade 🙌
https://image.nostr.build/d3bcd2bbee264ae596532d82890fb91c2f1f1b107e16970f39bd40ebcb56f5ce.jpg

2025-11-18 01:41:40 UTC

@npub1dk4…59r2 is this a scam? I sent some sats to Satoshi’s Number and nothing happened.

2025-11-06 11:05:13 UTC

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This incident has demonstrated that Knots influencers are either really disingenuous or really dumb.

2025-11-04 01:21:12 UTC

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Why Paul? Luke is obvious.

2025-10-28 14:36:57 UTC

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Any luck?

2025-10-27 19:47:52 UTC

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I made a 2000-sat invoice in an external wallet and paid it from Yopaki. Maybe try a small payout? I’d be shocked if they didn’t have liquidity for 10k though.

2025-10-17 13:32:45 UTC

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Why Cashu instead of @npub19hg…yv9p ?

2025-10-10 14:32:43 UTC

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👀

2025-10-09 13:38:25 UTC

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What are your thoughts on the relay policy changes in Bitcoin Core 30?

2025-10-08 23:21:50 UTC

@npub1pm5…xe07 Who are you? What can you do?

2025-10-01 16:28:49 UTC

@nprofile…hu6a Hey, wanted to recommend you periodically remove unreachable mints from cashumints.space. mint.lnwallet.app rugged some time ago.

2025-09-26 19:08:05 UTC

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Right, but all the tools are already out there. I call bullshit on the people screaming OP_RETURN is worse because it’s contiguous. The data is there or it’s not.

2025-09-26 19:05:54 UTC

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Yes, and certain monetary maximalist influencers have worked plebs into a frenzy with “THIS WILL KILL BITCOIN” insanity. Boy who cried wolf.

2025-09-26 18:58:12 UTC

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You’re missing that anyone can already put anything in an inscription.

2025-09-24 13:09:17 UTC

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I'LL ALWAYS HAVE TIME TO CRMSIZE OTHERS

2025-09-24 00:46:44 UTC

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Everyone on Twitter mad I’m criticizing luke dashjr

2025-09-22 13:45:28 UTC

Does the @npub1get…0nfm Extension use a different Master Key than the Alby Hub recovery phrase? So if you use Alby Extension for LNURL auth, and lose the extension configuration, that identity is lost forever?

2025-09-19 19:47:04 UTC

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Knots is a guy on the sidelines with his head in the sand while everyone else keeps relaying and mining transactions he doesn’t like.

2025-09-19 16:45:42 UTC

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Does it let you send by generating a string like that?

2025-09-19 02:27:31 UTC

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Same reason it’s acceptable on chain (it’s already there btw)—Bitcoin must be neutral and censorship resistant. This has unfortunate and unavoidable tradeoffs. If you’re scared of it, don’t run a node.

2025-09-18 19:39:41 UTC

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Aaaand there it is.
thinkofthechildren.gif

2025-09-18 19:06:31 UTC

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The filterer position is economically incoherent. Prove me wrong.
#nevent1q…8fjj

2025-09-18 19:01:19 UTC

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I've read this thread. It's predicated on a nonsensical statement from Greg Maxwell: "Demand for cheap highly-replicated perpetual storage is unbounded."
"Cheap" and "unbounded demand" are opposites, lol.
This is fear-mongering about Bitcoin becoming a database. If it's so valuable as a database, and you need to pay for said data storage using Bitcoin, how is that bad for Bitcoin? Sounds bullish to me.

2025-09-18 18:41:36 UTC

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Interesting, I use the 300MB default maxmempool and have never been harmed by spam. Sounds like FUD to me.

2025-09-18 18:24:48 UTC

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You will store the "spam" anyway when it gets mined. But you already know that.
You will not stop others from using Bitcoin the way they want. Enjoy your pure mempool.

2025-09-18 17:52:34 UTC

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The word "work" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here. You haven't shown that cleaning your mempool is desirable (it's not).
Here's a better syllogism:
1. If a configuration option is ineffective at keeping data off the blockchain, it should be removed.
2. OP_RETURN limit is ineffective at keeping data off the blockchain.
3. OP_RETURN limit should be removed.
QED

2025-09-17 16:28:43 UTC

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What wallets support this?

2025-09-16 02:12:53 UTC

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How’s privacy on Spark?

2025-09-16 01:39:35 UTC

Have some sats
cashuBpGF0gaJhaUgA_9SLj17PgGFwgaRhc3hANzIzODY5ZWVhOTkzMzU4ZGQ3MDQwMmVkMmFkODhiZTNmMTAzYzQ3ZGJhMTZlZDkzYjhhOWJlY2U3ZGJmYzUwMmFjWCEDXcE9ouDWmKQ0Sf4AV4Afj3ywAVLVtT3U3EOYgm09ew9hZKNhclggHzCXD2hvrxyqNQMuL_r2k0GjTV_zTd9f_9FBFAZghFNhc1ggzOj5_LonfvEWj7tEKzCI2KaXvHYAXsdMw6iUh_OWpFthZVgg4SLkMnMhwCVpqYGLL0IOPIM6PDMmrua7K9gKfH2dk1FhYRhAYXVjc2F0YW13aHR0cHM6Ly9taW50LjB4Y2hhdC5jb21hZHBOaW50ZW5kbyA2NCBTYXRz

2025-09-16 01:38:30 UTC

Consolidating my #ecash #cashu holdings after getting rugged by LNWALLET. Here’s some change: cashuBpGF1Y3NhdGF0gaJhcIGkYWEBYXN4QDNhYWQzMWZjNTJkYzk1YjRkY2ViZjg4NzM3ZGM5YjZhYWEwZGRhN2QzNTQ2ZDBmOTg4ODY3MGUzMjdkNDIwNDRhY1ghAtoEFT8plkXG7F7OVd_08zVQNLoF9Ku-cSGkNsk2OHQCYWSjYXJYIFY20OUkwW0htVqDNPevB3_bq7op3R2DDmMGSINWNsJLYWVYIH03-XTu2aIZ8IGuAcBL623ONhwRPWa_IvjfT7umVPm1YXNYIFoS3-lu8nUY-EXELiFsKVNPXLhUC1I2d0UNKxxEOdkfYWlIAKVRwEXgXL1hZHNHZW5lcmF0aW9uYWwgd2VhbHRoYW14GGh0dHBzOi8vbWludC5sbnZvbHR6LmNvbQ==

2025-09-16 01:36:34 UTC

Lnwallet.app rugged, right? Here’s some useless #cashu cashuBpGF1Y3NhdGF0gaJhaUgAEd9M7hzFD2FwiqNhc3hANTA4NjBlMTAyODE3MzJmMmRiMzEzYjY0MDViMzlmNTRiNDA1MjA1NDg5MTJkNTllODg5ZjdjM2M4Y2ZiNjY2ZGFhGQEAYWNYIQI1SLxFsJitlqtIdM0AV_QSRXMAlscSM-pZQrRMfUUDlKNhY1ghAw-QrkaEEaCLbC7lKm52VR2_SktlEpf1kHZmdKMpebKRYWEZAgBhc3hAZDFmYTJjOWFiYzJhNzg5MGNjYTNmNTgxZmU4MWY1MDIwMDc4MDkzZDE3MTg0MWUwZTRlNDExOTU3MjNhMGNlOKNhYRkQAGFzeEA5YmRhZjgzZmM3YzJkMGQ2ZmI2ZWU1MTI2OTk5ODQzYWFiMDg5MTQwZTQ5YjBkMTU0NGJhOWJiNDI3NTY2YjM2YWNYIQPEz-8R5z4DTLsH-Z_ZPNFZb79C7JnEYTzEJiRUdoTZ5aNhY1ghA6CZn9ifnd1JCkurQv0s1OekG-jwJZuDReG_JOpcX9e6YWEIYXN4QDk0ZDI1YjkyZDUzOGUzN2VkOTIyOTAxMzBmZWE3ZmUxOGI0ZDI1MGE2NTkzMjhiNDViMWQyODQ4ZmJiNTQ3MDejYXN4QDlmMjYzMTU4YzdlOTE5ZGViODM2NTc1MzVhNjcyYzBiNGZlZTFkNzVmOThmMGZlZjkxZTlhZjQ4MmMzMWIxNDJhY1ghA8Yiat6iEnzPz44V2pDdlUtUJhE1GmQI9ATPtsJt223vYWEIo2FjWCEDHtBW-3rXeE8zQzepROe8zEzhewJk4TGkmDlFHZLq0Y5hc3hANzUyYWZmMDAxMzEyZDliODQ2YWVlNmNjZDJmMjgwYjdiZDU3NjgzMWUyYTVlOTEwOTVkZTI1MjA0ZTlhMzE2ZmFhBKNhY1ghAyNUzdWcFBJQwWdlca2T1Mppq4c2ZdXI_BeNJklIJpraYWEQYXN4QDE0NjJiY2Q5MzUzYmM2MGIwNjIwZmVjMDNhZjQ5MzVmMjMwMzkzYzY2OGUwN2U5YzYxMzMwOWM3Y2YwMTk1NzijYWEYIGFjWCECh-3HZHpVlZEPV5Dj6oNxSHlyD8MExsCn42JTKYRkTaFhc3hAZmI3YjdmMmQxOWUwMWI3NGZmYmUwMDU0MjU1ZmE4YmMyNmNmODgxNmU0ODdjMDJhYmYwNTlkYjdhZWRlNmFiNqNhc3hAODk4N2I0ZTEwNDQ5YzMzNDljZDM5MDA4YWZjNjM1ODhkMDExODU2MTU3NzMxMjEwY2VjMTI5NWE4YzM1NzUwOGFjWCEDpKR1yQRffO3WDwnBfUlYAsuZR7XM-5DnIGiW9N3eT4JhYRhAo2FhBGFjWCEDj6fxYOXxu7kz0lhS8mUEAX_aQgO0IpzP4XE3oDBxyZlhc3hAMmFkMjliZDBjNDM2NWVlM2I0M2VkMzc4YTE0YjZhNzRlNmEzYWI1NDE5ODg4YmE0YzBiOWIyMDgzNDI0NTg5NWFkYGFteBlodHRwczovL21pbnQubG53YWxsZXQuYXBw

2025-09-16 01:25:37 UTC

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Whisky flights?

2025-09-16 01:24:16 UTC

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What wheel? Not to be a shill but free sats from @npub1k02…3g7u have been great. Long live Lotería.

2025-09-15 17:23:41 UTC

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This warning has influenced me, thank you.

2025-09-14 13:56:33 UTC

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You’re right. Good luck with all the filtering, hope it works out for you.

2025-09-13 20:58:08 UTC

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Sick ad hominems bro. Sounds like you lost the argument.

2025-09-13 03:38:09 UTC

PFP on the blockchain forever. Feelsgoodman. #bitcoin https://ordiscan.com/inscription/105991085

2025-09-11 14:17:13 UTC

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How so?

2025-09-11 14:04:24 UTC

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Core is "censoring" your ability to use ineffective configuration options, yes.

2025-09-11 14:02:21 UTC

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Knots is an attempt at censorship by people who don't understand Bitcoin. Thus it will fail to censor. Everything is fine.

2025-09-10 21:42:58 UTC

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I like Bitcoin. And I don’t like censorship. People can use Bitcoin in ways that you don’t like. The protocol is designed to make that possible. Knots won’t stop jpegs, sorry. And Bitcoin is better and more valuable for it.

2025-09-10 21:37:58 UTC

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Miners have mempools. If they are filtering, and building block templates from filtered transactions, filters work. See recent Ocean blocks.

2025-09-10 19:18:14 UTC

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I knew someone would read that part and ignore the rest. People don't seem to understand that you CANNOT have a blockchain without arbitrary data storage. There is no magic money-only chain. As long as there is a market for putting data on chain, it WILL happen.

2025-09-10 19:05:55 UTC

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Ethereum's problem isn't data, it's proof-of-stake and bad monetary policy. I hope Bitcoin does look like Ethereum, so it absorbs another $500 billion of capital. BTC will still be money, just worth more.

2025-09-10 18:49:28 UTC

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They should just hard fork to their 300kb-block, data-free chain already. Bitcoin obviously isn't what they want.
Oh never mind, that chain would just get stuffed with data too.

2025-09-10 18:33:31 UTC

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Seems reasonable to me.

2025-09-10 18:32:39 UTC

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I'm trying to understand your prediction. Bitcoin will be so full of files that people stop running nodes? Except for the people in favor of on-chain data, presumably. Do you think it'll be all data all the time, and no one can afford blockspace for monetary transactions? This seems to be what anti-Core people actually believe, and it's absurd.

2025-09-10 18:10:18 UTC

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That's Yogi Berra logic. "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." The blockchain is already a "dumpster fire of random files" and you can still transact on-chain for 1 sat/vb.

2025-09-10 16:59:14 UTC

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My point is the filters WOULD have some effect if virtually all nodes, including miners, enforced them. So when I said "enough people need to run core," I meant just a few will do, and those transactions will still get mined.

2025-09-10 16:09:15 UTC

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1. Yes, the filters don't work, except to keep certain transactions off your local mempool.
2. Most users probably don't care. The OP_RETURN limit was an ineffective tool to discourage data storage. Hence its removal in 30.

2025-09-10 15:46:07 UTC

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Sure. Knots users are motivated by their desire to censor transactions they don't like (which they call spam). Fine. So they run nodes that don't relay those transactions. If even a few people continue running open relays, like Core or Libre Relay, those transactions will still reach miners and get included in blocks.

2025-09-10 14:59:54 UTC

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If you think data carrier transactions will outbid monetary transactions in the long run, why do you think Bitcoin is important?

2025-09-10 14:58:05 UTC

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As long as enough people run it to keep Knots from censoring transactions, I'm happy. It doesn't take much.

2025-09-10 13:22:07 UTC

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Jpegbois are having way more fun than filterbois.

2025-09-10 12:41:06 UTC

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Can’t wait till Core 30 comes out and the world doesn’t end.

2025-09-09 12:32:54 UTC

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Both

2025-09-08 21:11:09 UTC

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Libre Relay FTW

2025-09-07 17:44:18 UTC

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Fees are 1 sat/vb, so they’re not outbidding monetary transactions.

2025-09-07 16:04:28 UTC

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I’m not sure if that’s accurate, but regardless, block space is still cheap.

2025-09-07 16:02:45 UTC

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Empty blocks. I got a transaction confirmed today for 1 sat/vB. Do you use bitcoin?

2025-09-07 16:01:25 UTC

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“Unlimited fiat” will bid the Bitcoin price up in an effort to destroy it with data, paying opportunistic miners in the process.

2025-09-07 15:57:34 UTC

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Of course an individual transaction can. But most bitcoin transactions are still NOT data storage. So what’s the problem exactly?

2025-09-07 15:55:54 UTC

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Is it your opinion that, without filtering, data storage will outbid monetary transactions in the long run?

2025-09-07 14:25:15 UTC

The Core vs. Knots debate is economic, and the Knots side is self-defeating. They believe that data storage will outbid monetary #bitcoin transactions in the long run, and thus must be censored in order to preserve bitcoin as money. If this were true, users would abandon their bitcoin money network for the top altcoin data network.

2025-09-06 21:03:14 UTC

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Nice! I wonder how you do it

2025-09-06 20:59:16 UTC

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Can you do this in Damus? @npub1xts…kk5s

2025-09-06 03:54:19 UTC

Fight #bitcoin censorship. Run Libre Relay.

2025-09-06 03:43:54 UTC

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Why does it matter if it’s “plain JPEG images” instead of fragments? It’s just differently encoded data. This sounds like fear-mongering.

2025-08-24 02:36:29 UTC

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Help us @nprofile…jjx3 you’re our only hope

2025-08-24 02:08:53 UTC

How are things going on bitchat guys
https://blossom.primal.net/8756a8fb8706b58a9650bfec44abae8453920a0368841247fbca6d2888e1bf0c.jpg

2025-08-17 13:02:05 UTC

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But in a good way

2025-08-15 23:24:22 UTC

Very cool, #steaknshake
https://image.nostr.build/a2fb4d5be36e51f5d55ef22147163e0a18014a3a92f70a8ebb273d641c7c35df.jpg

2025-08-14 18:52:41 UTC

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@npub17us…kf8w what does this mean

2025-08-14 14:05:08 UTC

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My mistake. Fixed now. Thanks for the quick response!

2025-08-14 13:57:31 UTC

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Trying it out. Here's my Lightning Address: [email protected]

2025-08-14 01:13:27 UTC

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Ignoring the price is “I don’t even have a TV” energy.

2025-08-14 00:32:47 UTC

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New USD/BTC all time low

2025-08-13 16:11:43 UTC

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Proofread your headlines.

2025-08-12 21:07:33 UTC

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What’s going on with braidpool?

2025-08-12 20:51:39 UTC

Thanks guys. We did it.
#note1rdk…rfj6

2025-08-12 20:43:54 UTC

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Nothing gets past you!

2025-08-12 20:40:15 UTC

Hey #bitcoin miners, I need block 909742 to have an even hash, so if you can tell your miner machines to throw out any odd hashes that would be great. I stand to win 1000 sats (generational wealth).
#note1fp2…f4c3

2025-08-12 20:28:39 UTC

@npub17us…kf8w heads 1000

2025-08-12 15:18:31 UTC

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You're not mining unless you bought special hardware for it. Core and Knots don't even give you the option to mine anymore because it's so inefficient with a regular CPU/GPU.
It's hard to say. If 80% of nodes were Knots, it would be harder for data transactions to propagate. But if there's enough market demand for those transactions, wallets could prioritize sending them to the 20% of non-Knots nodes, so they'd still easily get to a miner.
As far as submitting directly to a miner, the only pool I know that offers the service is https://slipstream.mara.com/ and yes, it is currently about 2x as costly as current mempool fee rates.

2025-08-12 14:20:51 UTC

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I’m joking

2025-08-12 14:18:11 UTC

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Man, you Core apologists just don’t get it. Standardizing large OP_RETURNs that you can already easily get mined today, and are more costly than just stuffing the witness data, WILL KILL BITCOIN 😭

2025-08-12 14:10:50 UTC

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There are miners who run Knots and mine blocks with little or no arbitrary data storage. It’s a small minority though. If enough miners did the same, it would make it more expensive to store data on chain. There’s not much point in running a non-mining Knots node, except to show support I suppose.
To your second question, it depends on the type of transaction. You don’t even need to submit directly to miners for inscriptions, because Bitcoin Core nodes (83% of the network) relay those transactions. To subvert Core AND Knots, you can go directly to miners. They will mine non-standard transactions like large OP_RETURNs. Even Core doesn’t relay them, but they are consensus valid.
The controversy with Core 30 is that it will start relaying large OP_RETURNs by default, precisely because the filter is trivial to subvert.

2025-08-11 20:07:58 UTC

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It makes no difference, except your node will make poor fee estimates because it has no idea what’s going on in other mempools.

2025-08-11 20:04:43 UTC

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Knots is Bitcoin node software that lets the user avoid relaying transactions that contain arbitrary data. The intention is to keep Bitcoin free of spam so that it can only be used for monetary transactions.
The problem is that people want to store data on chain and miners want to collect the transaction fees for that data. So even if 99% of the network runs Knots nodes, people can simply submit their data transactions directly to miners, and they get into a block (see MARA Slipstream).
The Knots crowd believes data storage is an existential threat to Bitcoin because it will outbid monetary usage. This fear is, bizarrely, a tacit admission that Bitcoin’s most market-valuable use case is as something other than money.

2025-08-11 19:38:41 UTC

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Yep. They’re tricking a lot of nontechnical people into thinking they’re “preventing spam.”

2025-08-11 19:35:40 UTC

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It’s consensus valid, so if miners want to include it, no one can stop it. You’re just getting bad fee estimates by running a node that ignores it.
If you think spam will outcompete the monetary usage of bitcoin in the long run, then you either don’t understand bitcoin or don’t believe in its basic value proposition.
That’s why I run Core.

2025-08-11 17:22:27 UTC

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Running Libre Relay.

2025-08-11 16:58:35 UTC

Stop letting Knots people convince you the sky is falling. The fee market is a spam filter. #bitcoin
#note1qzm…g8dj

2025-08-11 16:34:26 UTC

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If data storage is a more valuable use case than money, bitcoin will die anyway, and it deserves to. Knots is the boy who cried wolf. Running Core.

2025-08-09 19:12:57 UTC

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What are they doing?

2025-08-08 14:40:08 UTC

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https://image.nostr.build/ed496cb175836af3266b1790367eeb0e42189cee64e1ac11d841e0d69a0f30bc.jpg

2025-08-08 13:09:49 UTC

Now to find a good fjord
#note1fj2…9uft

2025-08-07 21:14:14 UTC

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Drumpf is seething