bitcoin

Fork and get it over with

conduition

> It really pains me to see smart people distracted by BIP444 when they have so many better things they could be doing with their time. But nonetheless I am glad to see earnest reviews of these foolish proposals, because then at least others will be able to more easily grasp the inane hubris of trying to censor information on a distributed P2P network.

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It's not just that it's a distributed p2p network that makes this whole affair inane. Even if Bitcoin were a centralized service, the fact that in order to function, it _must store data_, means that there will [always be a way](https://www.bitmex.com/blog/the-unstoppable-jpg-in-private-keys) for miscreants to abuse the data storage function. It sucks, but let's not waste time crying about it.
