You wake up and 1 Bitcoin hits 1 Bitcoin. What do you do?

Do not underestimate the damage caused by the stupidity of a bureaucrat with a pen.

Consensus lives in a network of human minds ("philosophical consensus"), partly represented by the choice of code that's run (or adhered to) by such a group, and another part unrepresented, unwritten, and sometimes not apparent. It's NOT the code that's in charge, with the ideology being secondary (subservient to the code), it's the exact reverse. One example of a hidden fracture in ideology was when big blockers and small blockers shared the same general ideology and were in consensus according to the code, but there was a fracture that only became apparent in 2017, and the code changed for each group to reflect their ideology. Currently, a new fracture is appearing. On one side, people believe stopping spam is censorship (even though the purpose of fees is to limit ddos spam attack, not stop). On the other side, people believe Bitcoin is money first, and storing data is a byproduct of that function, not a primary purpose, and so it's not censorship to limit spam. Just because the code can't enforce this ideology precisely, doesn't mean we change our ideology (it's like changing documentation to hide a bug). These two ideologies are why the change to Bitcoin Core is contentious. Without understanding this difference in ideology, there's no point trying to have logical debates.

Mempool policy rules in matter. Otherwise we wouldn't be fighting about this. Don't get sucked into the argument that "this is trivial because it's not a block validation rule change". This is a massive and dangerous change for Bitcoin.

New https://parman.org

It's not easy being on the side that defends making it easier for CSAM to be relayed through everyone's node, for some imagined/debatable benefit (i.e. less miner centralisation). It's time to take a good hard look at yourself and accept you were wrong. If you weren't taking a side, it's time to step up. You don't have go deeper into Core Derangement Syndrome ™. Just switch to the correct side, and join us calling out the stupid arguments of Core Groupies. This is not a Knots vs Core debate, you don't have to like Knots. It's a "Core is wrong" debate.

You totally misunderstood, read carefully

Bitcoin Core can reverse the stupid changes

So is Bitcoin Core removing the stupid changes

They don't have to be real sickos, they can be state attackers, then they come after us with the public on their side

I think just removing the witness discount would suffice. Why do you want to get rid of it?

Bitcoin Core will be used as a mule for free, unstoppable CP/CSAM by sickos or state actors, in order to attack Bitcoin and prosecute those who knowingly allow it. This is the attack... Once op_return is removed, plain JPEG images (not part of multiple fragments inside scripts that need to be pieced together and decoded, but plain JPEG/GIF/MP4) will be sent through your Bitcoin HardCore node version 30+, from one paedophile to others, possibly sold (Knots runners won't touch them, ever). Your Core node will happily pass it along, providing anonymity to the criminals (or state attackers, or Epstein's old clients). They will pay a well below market rate initially (eventually zero), and never even need to get the transaction mined - key point. The original filter that Satoshi introduced, FEES, will be effectively bypassed... After some time, these low-fee CP/CSAM txs will be dropped by Bitcoin Core nodes, but if they don't, the sicko(s) can do an RBF of the transaction (or if they have chained them, an RBF of a single low-fee unconfirmed parent), to cancel and invalidate the transaction so they don't have to actually pay for any of the downstream higher fee large transactions. They will have successfully used your computer to transfer and potentially sell horrible images, without paying (so forget "filters don't work, they'll get on chain anyway"), thanks you being complicit, and thanks to all the Core devs who allowed this in. And those gaslighting against us saying this is wrong. Then public opinion will turn heavily against Bitcoiners, if it isn't bad enough now. We already know it's going to get worse as most miss out. @adam3us has pointed out, incorrectly (I'll explain), that this attack can't work, because of some "package relay". Sounds like this is a filter to stop RBFs of a parent if there is a long chain of transactions dependent on it. A clever idea, but it can't work, Adam. Do you know why? Because your resistance itself is a form of FILTER, and FILTERS DON'T WORK, remember? You can not use an argument against us if that same argument is used to defend yourself. An attacker can get their cancelling RBF transaction mined by going directly to a miner. Then the scumbags get away with using your Bictoin Core node for CP/CSAM transmission - it's irrelevant whether it gets on a block or not, it doesn't need to, the paying paedophile got his images. Ironically, filters not working is the very reason we need filters. There are 3 solutions. 1) Bitcoin Core reverses this STUPID rushed decision, introducing completely unnecessary risk to Bitcoin. 2) We all run Knots, and it becomes the reference client. 3) We move away from Core to Knots, and maybe others will pop up, and there is no reference client, meaning fewer meaningful changes to Bitcoin become likely. Bitcoin doesn't need changes; it needs general light maintenance, so just maintain it, don't change it! x.com/adam3us/status…

Today on "Old man yells at society" ... Self serve checkout at Safeway, staffed by 5 people ushering people to checkout... "Paying by card?" STFU, everyone is paying by card, you're just in the way. Just make each machine accept card or cash and you save paying the salary of five people. They tukerrjowbs!!

C'mon, it's so boring. Have you heard Rach 2?

If you are given a Lightning address as an invoice, now you can pay it even if your wallet is retarded and doesn't know how to handle it... 1) Update Parmanode to version 3.64.1 2) Tools menu, choose Pay Lightning 3) Respond to questions (lightning address and amount) 4) Capture the invoice text or QR to your wallet 5) Pay 6) Go buy those sats back, we don't spend bitcoin around these parts.

Sounds sexual