You are right about one thing. Bitcoin is what we make it. What you are missing is that this is not only a technical discussion. Filling up nodes with garbage creates a disincentive to run a node. What incentive do I have to relay and mine transactions full of garbage. We signed up for money not jpegs. And defending my private property is not censorship, deal with it.

Exactly!

That was an excellent interview. Thanks for doing what you do and trying to keep your cool.

I don’t care what happens to your filthy transactions. If your transactions have a problem being censored than make better transactions. I will never have this problem because I am not imposing a bunch of garbage on my peers. I respect their private property and will use as little of their resources as humanly possible. If you don’t also do that it’s your problem, not mine.

Did you read mine? I never said that i can make anyone do anything. But people claim knots is censorship all the time which is obviously not true. No one has made a single good case supporting that claim, including you.

What does that even mean?

This big beautiful consolidation transaction has been in my mempool for the last six blocks and was actually rejected by Foundry USA 3 times, viaBTC, and Binance in favor of a bunch of garbage spam. This is where core 30 is taking us. Core nodes now favor bloating the utxo set over shrinking it. My knotty node has been trying to mine this transaction the entire time but it was displaced by spam that core 30 is optimized for. Why is core software rejecting valid transactions that are actually beneficial to the blockchain in favor of flooding the blockchain with bullshit dust transactions. This transaction was eventually mined by F2Pool and turned 1000 utxos into 1. Why are we optimizing bitcoin to be free data storage service for miscreants instead of prioritizing transactions that clean up that junk. I'm sure this is just some scammer preparing another mint of dick butts on the chain but it still begs the question. Why is it easier to spam the chain than clean it up. Seems like the incentives are perverse.

No. Setting my own mempool policy is not censorship at all. Don't know about you, but I have the freedom of speech. I'm allowed to say whatever I want. Censorship is preventing people from speaking. Isn't it more like tyranny when the dominant implementation makes changes that will force you to do something against your will. In fact this is the type of thing bitcoiners should be fighting against. A single organization dictating what my mempool should look like. Absolutely insane.

I would support this. How about you? https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/3c718237072c107ced8c3531a487354fbdae55df/bip-%3F%3F%3F%3F.mediawiki

No one should be forced to relay and store a bunch of data that has nothing to do with bitcoin if they don't want to. Give me one reason I should.

More and more people are talking about it.

What incentive do I have to relay and store csam or jpegs? If you can't give me a reason then you're wrong.