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I could go into detail about every aspect he got wrong — I’ve been doing that since 2023, and it’s honestly getting tiresome. I also helped put together this site to give proper context for anyone genuinely interested. Feel free to dig through it, but don’t assume the rest of us haven’t done our homework (this is exactly how the Core side operates). This conflict’s been simmering for over two years, and only in the last six months has it started catching mainstream attention. The short version: Core is compromised. They’ve been screwing with our money long before Core 30. About 95% of their so-called “technical” arguments have been thoroughly rebutted or explained with context — and they consistently turn out to be gaslighting, lies by omission, or plain concern trolling.
WTF Happened in Feb 2023?
A website dedicated to mitigating spam on Bitcoin.
This is overall not bad, imo. My main criticisms to @npub1yp4n...kqyk would be: 1) it propagates without nuances the "experts vs demagogues" false framing, which is mostly made up (the "Knots side" includes experienced developers like Luke or SuperTestnet, who are way more technical than some influencers on the "Core side" like Shinobi or Lopp, who are more skilled at popularization and mass communication, letting alone that Dunning-Kruger doesn't just apply to computer science illiteracy, but also to economic, social and legal illiteracy, which also abunds on both sides), 2) it completely misrepresents Citrea's involvement, depicting a bunch of literal shitcoin scammers as "legit", and claiming they "need" that specific encoding method (which they actually adapted just out of laziness and lack of care), and they are "hoping to move to less harmful methods", which they publicly stated they aren't even considering at the moment, 3) it omits a lot of nasty triggers by some influential people on the "Core side", which are imo at the root of the current division and drama: the "it isn't spam if it's valid or pays fees" nonsense, the "mempool policy are censorship" nonsense, the "spam filtering in Core never existed" nonsense, the vitriolic and obsessive witch hunt against important and good projects for Bitcoin like OCEAN and Start9, the gross mismanagement of the github repo, the fixation on mempool changes as a way to show dominance and regulate personal beefs, etc. For the rest, pretty good. I agree with the overall takeaways: - search for the truth instead of parroting the slogans of your tribe - mine on OCEAN and DATUM (and maybe tomorrow SV2) - run your node with your own mempool policies (I'm filtering "inscriptions" since 2022) - keep looking for possible long-term mitigations to spam (witness discount removal soft forks, fast-to-update user-side spam-filtering policies outside of Core, etc.) View quoted note →