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F2Pool is actively attacking the network RIGHT NOW. All it takes is one attacker to send them a single instance of CSAM, and Bitcoin users will have to knowingly and intentionally receive, store, and distribute it until the end of time. This will permanently impact Bitcoin adoption regardless of whether governments turn a blind eye or prosecute. If miners are going to switch pools when they do bad things, NOW IS THE TIME. I don't care if you switch to Foundry or even Antpool. Obviously I would prefer you make your own blocks and use OCEAN, but this is too critical and time-sensitive to be picky. We can work on mining decentralization and spam issues over a longer period of time, but CSAM is an insta-kill we MUST avoid.

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↩ replying to ⚡Arvik⚡
Money is what emerges on the market which secures well or very well several desired functions, such as: store of value, means of exchange, unit of account. Can be in varying degree of the perception of fulfilling those roles. Saving and then paying for food is what I would like to be able to do with good money. Piggybacking or smuggling irrelevant non-utxo-related data which may lead to unnecessary, incremental transaction or operational cost is a non-monetary abuse of money. Why do you ask?
I’ve been reflecting on how ironic this whole situation has become. The node runners and the anti-spam movement are the true Bitcoiners, those who genuinely understand Bitcoin’s monetary nature and work to preserve it as a means of exchange, not just as a data host. They’re the cautious ones, trying to avoid a fork and to maintain the chain’s integrity. Meanwhile, one of the first things Bitcoin Core accused people like Bitcoin Mechanic and the node-running community of was causing a fork. But that accusation says more about them than about us. Usually, when someone accuses others of something, it reveals their own intentions. And it’s starting to look like Core might actually be the side that ends up triggering a hard fork. If that happens, it’ll be deeply ironic, especially since they’re already developing “Libre Relay.” You can easily imagine them taking that route all the way to a “LibraCoin,” just like Facebook’s old technocratic project. It fits perfectly: the same mindset of engineers trying to centralize control under the banner of “coordination,” while the people running nodes those actually keeping Bitcoin alive pstay true to its original purpose. And if that fork really happens, we’ll dump the LibraCoins into the hype and stack more sats. View quoted note →
Reflecting on this situation, the node runners and anti-spam movement are true Bitcoiners, understanding Bitcoin’s monetary nature and aiming to preserve it as a means of exchange, not just data hosting. They are cautious, trying to avoid a fork and maintain chain integrity. Initially, Bitcoin Core accused people like @Bitcoin Mechanic and the Knots community of causing a fork, but this reveals their own intentions. It seems Core might trigger a hard fork, especially since they’re developing “Libre Relay,” possibly leading to a “LibraCoin,” similar to Facebook’s project. The engineers’ goal of centralization under “coordination” contrasts with node runners who preserve Bitcoin’s original purpose. If the fork occurs, we’ll sell the LibraCoins into hype and stack sats.
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I have serious concerns with this framing. The legal argument doesn’t hold up. Node operators aren’t liable for encrypted data they didn’t create and can’t access. ISPs, CDNs, and Tor nodes have legal precedent here. What makes Bitcoin nodes different? CSAM has likely already been encoded in the blockchain for years through various methods. If this is truly an insta kill for adoption, why hasn’t it already happened? If Bitcoin can be killed by one attacker sending one instance of illegal content, then it was never antifragile. This argument concedes Bitcoin can’t survive adversarial use, which undermines the entire value proposition. And switch pools NOW but obviously I prefer OCEAN? That undercuts this being about Bitcoin’s survival rather than pool market share. If I’m missing something in the legal or technical analysis, I genuinely want to understand it View quoted note →
I've been running a node for years and I've never seen an image of any kind on the chain. Closest I've ever seen to the "spam" that chicken little keeps yelling about was the Bitcoin Genesis block, which copied a news article about a bank bailout in the UK happening at the time.
↩ replying to David
Apparently ignorance is stil bliss. I have to accept society has been so dumbed down by the system that even Bitcoiners to be saved from themselves. @Luke Dashjr speaks common sense, which used to be immune from stupidity. But these are dark times, which makes the threat palpable from both Globalists and Fascists, Repugnantards and Demoncrits, just waiting for an excuse to turn the public against Bitcoin, as BlackRock waits patiently to fork us all