Even while prunable, they have to be processed in the mempool and in the initial blockchain sync, which can be a huge bottleneck for people with less computer resources. I agree with you on the segwit 4mb blocks, it’s too big. Just some MBs can make a bitcoin node too expensive to run in places where it’s needed the most, just like arbitrary data can use memory and cpu power that is wasted, knowing it could have been used for monetary transactions, even if ignored after. If it can be pruned, it could not be put there in the first place.

Cheap BTC! gotta buy

It’s funny to see how they affirm that arbitrary data filtering is not possible and anybody that disagrees can just make their node ignore it while they try to call out, moderate and mute everyone that disagrees on the bitcoin github repo, mailing list and twitter community.

UP 🤪

“if you are not a _, you don’t know what you are talking about and your opinion about _ is not valid” Covid was full of these situations: No one had the “knowledge needed” to reject the mask, vaccines and lockdowns… yet at the same time everyone had the “right knowledge” if they followed the rules. Following this mindset we would not have the right to vote, because we didn’t study politics. Labeling one set of knowledge as “the right one” and the other one as “the biased” is not valid as solid evidence for defending any of the opinions on any problem.

all the tools we allow the state to use against terrorists can and probably will be used against us too, eventually.

UP

People that visit multiple countries and get to interact with the culture get to experience this: They see how exaggerated stereotypes are and how little difference there really is between two humans that want the same in life.

This. No system can scale to process all transactions on earth in the same layer, parting from this we must keep bitcoin as a secure and efficient settlement network while creating new layers on top of it to provide scaling and usecases. Of course, innovation and new features are good for adoption, just not on the bitcoin L1.

There’s literally no reason to hate someone that lives countries away and you don’t even know. Cultural conflicts exist because they’re fomented by nations. They feed people with hate to make them want to go to war and die for the country’s interests.

One of the most successful organised attacks on Bitcoin to date, if you asked me. Someone is trying to make btc node hosting computationally and legally (CSAM) unaffordable.

Is there any nostr client with regex filtering options? for example to stop seeing non-readable text notes while scrolling, or muting a specific word

At first I thought I wasn’t gonna use zapping in nostr because I want to use social media for free. Yet I zapped more than expected, because there really is content worth giving a tip. And at the end of the month, it’s still cheaper than a Twitter/X subscription. Turns out incentivising value inside a platform… just brings it into it.