It is not common sense, it is simply to obey who pays, same as before. Even the one who pays exonerates from the consequences of not obeying, as if it were necessary....curious.

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Too late, Core has kicked the hornet’s nest, and the swarm is headed towards them.

This is Gloria Zhao, she is one of the only people on the planet that has merge rights to the bitcoin core repo. One of the 6 most powerful core devs...like...like.

And who is this retard? An ignorant who does not understand the technical concepts or a troll I guess. I am on the side of Core and I will execute the software trusting blindly in their decisions because they are the ones who know. Do not verify, trust.

NO

they are very busy with TapAss

"A recap of the OP_RETURN "debate"

Core: Filters don't work. Bitcoiners: They obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't need to remove them.

Core: We don't have the technical means t maintain them, so we're removing the limit. Bitcoiners: We gave you the technical means in a PR two years ago, Core rejected it, it was implemented in Knots and it works.

Core: We can't stop all spam reliably, so why bother? Bitcoiners: Because life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes.

Core: Here's 7 transactions that even your precious filters didn't catch. Bitcoiners: Here's 2 million transactions that were caught.

Core: You can't censor valid transactions just because you don't like them. They paid a fee! Bitcoiners: There's millions of Nigerian princes contacting people through email every day. These are "valid transactions" too, yet you send those to spam. This is obviously not censorship, so that argument is deceitful and intellectually dishonest.

Core: What is spam objectively anyway? Bitcoiners: The receiver - not the sender - gets to decide what's useful to them. You're removing the ability of nodes to decide that, implying you know best.

Core: These transactions will end up in blocks anyway, and we can't incentivize profit-seeking miners to go out-of-band. Bitcoiners: It's not your job to incentivize or deter miners. Your job is to work on the Bitcoin client while prioritizing the one thing that makes Bitcoin unique and truly decentralized: nodes.

Core: But we want better fee estimation and block propagation. Bitcoiners: So do we, but never at the expense of decentralization and self-sovereignty. And btw, there is no such thing as "the mempool. Nodes run the show.

Core: This is a technical discussion. Stop philosophying and using analogies, you plebs! Bitcoiners: We gave you a technical solution that works, the philosophic rationale and the logical arguments. Stop turning Bitcoin into a shitcoin.

If you're seeing bias here, it's because you're too stubborn to admit that one side is clearly more informed, rational and morally calibrated than the other.

This is why there's distrust in Core. It's got nothing to do with technical competency and rational discourse. It's just pure and simple political shenanigans, whataboutisms, strawman arguments and in some cases sheer lies."

"A recap of the OP_RETURN "debate"

Core: Filters don't work. Bitcoiners: They obviously do, otherwise you wouldn't need to remove them.

Core: We don't have the technical means t maintain them, so we're removing the limit. Bitcoiners: We gave you the technical means in a PR two years ago, Core rejected it, it was implemented in Knots and it works.

Core: We can't stop all spam reliably, so why bother? Bitcoiners: Because life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes.

Core: Here's 7 transactions that even your precious filters didn't catch. Bitcoiners: Here's 2 million transactions that were caught.

Core: You can't censor valid transactions just because you don't like them. They paid a fee! Bitcoiners: There's millions of Nigerian princes contacting people through email every day. These are "valid transactions" too, yet you send those to spam. This is obviously not censorship, so that argument is deceitful and intellectually dishonest.

Core: What is spam objectively anyway? Bitcoiners: The receiver - not the sender - gets to decide what's useful to them. You're removing the ability of nodes to decide that, implying you know best.

Core: These transactions will end up in blocks anyway, and we can't incentivize profit-seeking miners to go out-of-band. Bitcoiners: It's not your job to incentivize or deter miners. Your job is to work on the Bitcoin client while prioritizing the one thing that makes Bitcoin unique and truly decentralized: nodes.

Core: But we want better fee estimation and block propagation. Bitcoiners: So do we, but never at the expense of decentralization and self-sovereignty. And btw, there is no such thing as "the mempool. Nodes run the show.

Core: This is a technical discussion. Stop philosophying and using analogies, you plebs! Bitcoiners: We gave you a technical solution that works, the philosophic rationale and the logical arguments. Stop turning Bitcoin into a shitcoin.

If you're seeing bias here, it's because you're too stubborn to admit that one side is clearly more informed, rational and morally calibrated than the other.

This is why there's distrust in Core. It's got nothing to do with technical competency and rational discourse. It's just pure and simple political shenanigans, whataboutisms, strawman arguments and in some cases sheer lies."

I know that I am a simple ignorant and stupid ape... but not sooo stupid. If these are the best arguments of these people I already know which side of the story I want to be on.

I will try to be brief: It was July 2017 and the world of airdrops was in a good moment and there I was on bitcointalk looking among the hundreds of airdrops for some that gave me good vibrations... then I saw one that I liked, it was called deeponion and was just starting. The requirements were acceptable, you had to send 10 messages per week and keep the signature on the forum. We started to receive our thousands of coins that had no value, still with the determination of a retard I continued week after week and also did some cheating by creating more accounts to extract more... Weeks passed and some exchange added to DO to trade wow! The value was low and there was a rule that had to be respected if you wanted to continue participating in the airdrop, you could not dump more than 15% of the coins received that week. I was selling every week the maximum allowed and kept the rest, the bitcoin kept going up and dragging all kinds of shitcoins included DO. The market was euphoric, DO was trading at 5$, 6$, 9, 12... I had accumulated thousands of them, until how much would it go up? Now everyone wanted to participate in the airdrop! We were approaching the end of the year and btc was at highs, DO was paid at more than 100k sats a unit or about 19$... crazy The airdrop was still going on but I sold 90% of my stake at the maximum, my goal was always to accumulate as many sats as possible. Today I look back and I still don't understand how I made that magnificent move since most of my sats come from DO, it changed my life.

"This is also why I tell anyone thinking about setting up a "routing" node they have a fundamental misunderstanding of what Lightning is and how it works, there are no successful routing nodes and its a fools errand to attempt it"

Let me tell you in all humility that you have no idea what you are talking about. It will not be easy or usual but I know that there are several nodes with constant benefits and they are not from services like ACINQ but from plebs.

omfg! how have you been holding on for so long with those negative numbers... If my node after a year did not generate thousands of sats a week of profit I would have closed it ipso-facto.

And I thank you very much because I don't have the patience or the will to do what you do.