I couldn't agree more. It is no coincidence that the top was put in when Core released a broken version. They deliberately harmed the protocol and the market reflects that damage. BIP-110 is the best and probably only way to fix the damage that was done.

It helps those of us with children. With Iran in its current form the world will be an unsafe terrorist laden shithole in 20 - 30 years. The only part of my taxes I am happy to part with and is arguably the only thing the government is authorized to do.

I am sick of influencers. They are all cons that provide little, if any, value to society. Kinda like government.

To increase confidence in the BIP-110 node percentage I recommend running over clearnet with port 8333 forwarded on your router. Even well resourced attackers would have a hard time goosing those numbers.

The metaberse was always a front. He wanted the company to change the name to Meta as in metadata but that would have longterm reputation risk. The $80 billion wasn’t squandered, it just gave the company the ability to create a toxic name out of a toxic practice in plain sight without anyone being the wiser.

Running a node must be inexpensive for bitcoin to survive. With the rising cost of SSDs, storage is becoming a real issue, but I agree with Matt that RAM and bandwidth, etc are primarily the most important and make node operation an elite endeavor. Destroy this attack vector and center all arguments around the cost to operate a node.

Totally agree. The only slippery slope is doing nothing while spam is flooding the chain. Gotta Rug the Spammers with BIP-110. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dYA9vYa0iwQ

Maybe both?

All facts. Nodes must run the show. BIP-110 brings that back into alignment.

That X comment only confirms what I have said all along. There is no legitimate market for jpegs on bitcoin. This is VC spammers trying to create a bitcoin "OpenSea" with high asymmetric return from a few niche suckers. They are running scared now that they understand how effective BIP-110 will be. Pure genius in design. The timing is perfection.

Excellent site. He does a fantastic job of illustrating the spam attacks on multiple dimensions. Proof of work at its best. Ivan Pustogarov in 2015 explained that running bitcoin over tor introduces risk to the network. It is true that you don't have to open port 8333 on your router with tor, but depending on another node network for uptime (only 8,000 to 10,000 tor relays worldwide) gives me some pause on weighing privacy pros and cons. However, with rising spam (and potentially illegal content) on the network, clearnet may pose an even greater risk in the future. Not spreading FUD on network configuration or anything, just objectively analyzing the security and privacy tradeoffs. Your node, your rules. Your keys, your coins.