It is safe to express your hatred for genocidal scum, be proud of it.

Except you need to trust your VPN, you can't just assume these providers aren't all entirely feds

For a Blockchain to remain decentralised, you have to limit the number of Utxos, because everything else can be compressed, but you need this full set to be able to produce new blocks, and for users to create transactions... But that already sounds like Pools, and indeed, a trustless pool is a Blockchain (or call it a distributed event log if you want) with a hard limit on the size of UTXO set. There can only be so many pools on Bitcoin, because Bitcoin too needs to limit its utxo set, but the limit is very large, and there is still shallow recursion (pools inside pools) if necessary. Cross pools finality will always be slow though, but it will probably still be faster than banks finality (30 days).

You can verify arbitrary computations over private inputs, on Bitcoin, right now. Time to build useful stuff with that.

Bitcoin is a temporary proof of publishing,, if you think data on Bitcoin will live forever in any special way unlike any other torrent file, you are wrong. Even UTXOs can be deleted and nodes demand that you send your Utreexo proof to spend. Nothing is forever, everything has maintaince costs and if not paid, they get entropied.

Filter people want compliant Bitcoin nodes ... I wonder how long before KYC is part of Knots consensus.

And? How is that attractive to pedos? Are they afraid of outliving their cloud provider or something? Also, any sufficiently popular torrent will last forever, arguably some have even more guaranteed longevity than Bitcoin. Bitcoin is not special it will last only as long as people care to share it's archival history. At some point everyone will say fuck it and start checkpointing their clients and hand picking UTXOs to delete...

Just close your node and don't worry about it, nodes that have to comply with the law are useless anyway. Leave relaying to people who don't care whether or not they are doing legal stuff.

He is pretending that CSAM on Bitcoin is something that helps criminals, not mere trolling... It is absurd, no one needs Bitcoin to sell CSAM or even relay it for free just to hurt the victims... As if the internet doesn't exist freely outside blockchains. This is so stupid I find it hard to accept it is an honest misunderstanding... More likely just trying to capture Bitcoin with this pearl clutching insanity.

Prediction; Bitcoin Rollups will be interoperable with Lightning ... Because they are mostly equivalent to Ark servers so why not.

Simulate soft forks or bust

please can we repurpose the Liquid federation to just sign Bitcoin transactions if they contain valid Simplicity binary in op_return?

You are too patient

No the actual answer is that we keep ignoring these FUD arguments... Occasionally calling them out as retarded then go back to ignoring them.

Because no one trusts filter Devs with billions of dollars

Core itself is working on the libbitcoinkernel because they want to get rid of this influence on the network because it brings them nothing but headache... Currently implementing a competing client risks consensus bugs, which is why they have that influence over non consensus matters. As soon as libbitcoinkernel is finalized, everyone can build whatever the fuck they want and stay in consensus.

You missed the point, if someone wants to sneak CSAM they can sneak it in popular Torrents they publish... They don't need Bitcoin nodes for that. And definitely this risk isn't stopping people from seeding torrents... Because that is not important concern for individuals. People who are concerned are free not to use torrent at all, and companies that are concerned are free to run Knots instead of Core. Unless you want Knots to be the only client allowed ... In that case you can keep trying.

Liquid federation would have been better off as a trusted cosigner of transactions on Bitcoin to enable opt-in opcodes.

I bring you good news; centralisation will forever remain crippled by compliance... Want decentralisation? Build tools for the anarchists who understand the sovereignity of the Internet and practice it.