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.

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 

 for miscreants to abuse the data storage function. It sucks, but let's not waste time crying about it.

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.
