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There is a debate about spam transactions on the Bitcoin network, specifically about filters that aim to block them. Researchers argue that these filters don't work well and can even lead to centralization, as they slow down block relay and favor larger miners. The discussion highlights the tension between decentralization and preventing spam on the network.

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Social category influence cryptocurrencies #1841 social networks XXXX% finance XXXX% technology brands XXXX% stocks XXXX% exchanges XXXX%

Social topic influence bitcoin #728, filters #89, has been #3664, stack 0.71%, stack exchange #4, transactions #42, bug 0.55%, number of #545, protocol #710, money XXXX%

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"@TylerCompiler Bitcoin developers have been fighting spam since 2010. Welcome to the party. It's just more subtle than you think and the workarounds often come with worse side effects than the problem"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:49Z 696.8K followers, 1694 engagements

"@Sr_11ss @LukeDashjr unblock say a half-truth reblock is not "working" it's being a child. anyone working on bitcoin needs to be able to defend their arguments"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:03Z 696.8K followers, 1709 engagements

"@_DavidSFreeman bitcoin uses assume valid since 2017 @LukeDashjr went back to checkpoints in knots just why. our boy's not doing so well lately"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T21:39Z 696.8K followers, 3327 engagements

"@AsyncN8 @LukeDashjr @1914ad @BitcoinPierre It's not easily possible to prevent data being hidden in programming languages. That should be easy for even a non programmer to realize as you can obviously hide data even in English written in a book. What English language changes do you think you could make to prevent that"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T15:24Z 696.8K followers, 1748 engagements

"@garland_key @satflation @cguida6 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus second sentence invalidates first. making filters pluggable in no way reduces the compelled action issue from AWA (FBI vs Apple etc)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:31Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@DrawStl4110 Obviously it depends on ecosystem consensus but first we have to find a viable idea and that's what I've been trying to do"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T16:13Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@mattkratter there are apparently some minor security bug fixes in core XX. can't speak for them but they're pretty serious and they need to be with the amount of btc they secure - they probably looked at the code diffs"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T21:58Z 696.8K followers, 2168 engagements

"are bitVM shitcoin scammers (citrea being one of multiple projects). having R&D into more secure layer2 peg and anchors is useful for layer2s may help ark liquid fedimint down the road. and definitely less bad if they do memecoin and NFT nonsense on layer2 than spam up the main chain. there is outrage marketing that was part of taproot wizards"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:49Z 696.8K followers, 1153 engagements

"@SuperTestnet @BitcoinBombadil @ultraticum @cguida6 @parkeralewis @giacomozucco @murchandamus you mean with scammy use cases right as the payload focus inside the layer2 they're using bitVM R&D to build. bitVM itself is a potentially useful way to improve layer2 peg BTC and layer2 security mode for fediming ark liquid and other things which can help scaling"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T18:47Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"The future of finance runs on Bitcoin"
X Link @adam3us 2025-04-09T23:13Z 696.8K followers, 202.1K engagements

"i think an option to delete and replace with hash could be ok people are annoyed about having to receive store and relay the crap anyway. luke's idea that setting datacarriersize to 80b or 40b or whatever would stop 100kB images doesn't make sense to me however. the network is relaying 100kB due to other power users custom node config and the by design decentralized censorship-resistance. and it's pretty easy to bypass - just solo-mine rent some hashrate anonymously or pay a miner submission api with btc. and it's also not new that's been possible since 2009. so why panic and make drama given"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T21:26Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"bitcoin protocol improvements come from where the cypherpunk brain trust is. ofc nothing is perfect. releases with different parameters or less tested patches are built on top of that. i'm going to seek out whichever build has the smartest most cypherpunk brain trust behind it"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-23T12:25Z 696.8K followers, 54.2K engagements

"@rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @satflation @LukeDashjr also this face mask off moment where @GrassFedBitcoin blocked me. you are free to run a policy you like implies others are free to also Mechanic is saying only policy blessed by him and Luke is allowed in the p2p network. 🤯"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T15:06Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@BetruetoitUK You can rebase on Bitcoin XX and change parameters. Or you can try to articulate even for yourself what you think is wrong in Bitcoin XX. Eg if you don't like the datacarriersize parameter change it In config"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:29Z 696.8K followers, 1559 engagements

"@giacomozucco @cguida6 @murchandamus some shitcoin scammers use outrage marketing others use "bitcoin layer2" marketing (but actually their punchline monetization is an ICO or shitcoin scam in the layer2). latter might be influenceable or other later uses for better layer2 anchors which are not scammers at all"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:57Z 696.8K followers, 1030 engagements

"@CoinCornerDanny @bitcoinhodlco @zakkdev @freddienew see @Sequans this is how you do it. CEO buys not dumps"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-25T11:38Z 696.8K followers, 1090 engagements

"@14g23h34 i responded to this with this and a responder who claimed new risk"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T18:53Z 696.8K followers, 1606 engagements

"@colbyserpa he seems to agree with op return2 data-availability. but he's failing at what you said and appears to be saying changing a node local node parameter on a feature that's been consensus valid for XX years is "intentionally designed to host non-financial content" which is nonsense"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T09:22Z 696.8K followers, 2777 engagements

"i don't want spam. how do i vote against it with my bitcoin wallet. that is the root question"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T09:37Z 696.8K followers, 107.9K engagements

"If we socially lose the ability to make rational changes Bitcoin has far worse problems. Socially attacking urging rejection of security & robustness fixes from XXX most skilled people on the planet is itself an attack on Bitcoin. There are security fixes in v30"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T09:36Z 696.8K followers, 185.3K engagements

"@johnBTCdoe @asanoha_gold if you somehow managed to reset your cortisol levels and look at the facts calmly from a few months ago i feel confident you'd agree it's a minor bug fix. everyone seems radicalized over a nothing-burger. that's why the conclusion: spam hysteria seems the logical explanation"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T22:33Z 696.8K followers, 1145 engagements

"@garland_key @satflation @cguida6 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus example playbooks can easily be found in prior p2p systems i implemented X p2p systems and ran exit nodes in multiple. like file sharing - the authorities did sting operations collaborated with ISPs tried to make examples out of p2p file sharing users DoSed the networks"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T14:53Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"well quite well spotted. i had a 2014 conversation with greg maxwell and @lukedashjr about that as i had a proposal committed transaction described on bitcoin talk in 2013 that does this. curiously luke's reaction was that it was a miners job to filter transactions. (he was running eligius pool at the time filtering satoshi dice transactions and probably some other things he didnt like). it took greg and i some persistence to explain to him that this is an incorrect view only possible because of insufficient privacy in bitoin. he seemed to concede the point but in person luke is a bit quieter"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:20Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@roryhighside @4moonsettler @NickSzabo4 @caoimhinllc @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @robin_linus @PortlandHODL If we socially lose the ability to make rational changes Bitcoin has far worse problems. Socially attacking urging rejection of security & robustness fixes from XXX most skilled people on the planet is itself an attack on Bitcoin. There are security fixes in v30"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T07:58Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@d1m9enG @theCodyTomblin It's not a social signal it's a minor bug fix. The social signal is datacarriersize=0 but that's not a good network parameter for a node. This is also why it's a mistake to consider technical internals as social signals they can need to be set differently from the message"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:49Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@parkeralewis @giacomozucco @cguida6 @murchandamus complex discussion topics on twitter are very prone to this kind of misinterpretation and difficulty retaining context and big picture discussion across meandering threads. I expect you're right but I don't think there was any intent to poorly communicate or confuse the topic"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T13:39Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@LordNakamotoX @EnjoyingBitcoin my reputation is strong because i'm not cowed by hysteria calmly explain logic and criticize anyone of any view i see saying things that don't seem logical or socially smart"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T22:31Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@EnjoyingBitcoin It depends on the privacy tech but in the general case you wouldn't be able to distinguish. Also consider even fake pubkeys those work today unfortunately and are hard to distinguish could have a deciding key revealed later. Or the private key encoding @BitMEXResearch showed"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:46Z 696.8K followers, 1440 engagements

"@start9labs @MattHill fwiw and no disrespect to anyone but this has come up a few times and it's not clear filtering plugins are a good idea at all it could actually be a very bad idea for complex historic precedent reasons related to apple vs FBI and compelled actions"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T14:52Z 696.8K followers, 2658 engagements

"@SuperTestnet @BitcoinBombadil @ultraticum @cguida6 @parkeralewis @giacomozucco @murchandamus if people are looking to do scammy things it's less bad for bitcoin nodes if they do them in layer2s than like the brc20 rune etc stuff on chain. (and that maybe includes mastercoin/Omni counterParty RGB taproot assets which could all be equally used for layer1 memecoins)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T18:48Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@john_giovanni_ @csuwildcat @hugomofn Sounds like adventurous nonsense to misdirect people into making dangerous for Bitcoin blunders"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T15:16Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@LaurentMT @RealityAbsorber @hugomofn @darosior @giacomozucco so improve the level of the discourse. the only way to improve signal is to inject it. you might not agree with some of my logic but that's what i've been trying to do it's the only way. or take it to lower noise environments where signal more easily survives"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T11:21Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"you could have a point there. but at least not actively filtering is presumably less bad for precedent as you notice MARA stopped. there is some argument about if they work for miners also as well as there are many miners. @csuwildcat also called the introduction of filters an early mistake by satoshi for this reason"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:21Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@CoinEdition It's not an inefficiency it's just the case that if users are intentionally inefficient you can't stop them. It's like they drilled a hole in their fuel tank and then you blame an ignition firmware upgrade. If they want to be less efficient and waste money you can't stop them"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T12:34Z 696.8K followers, 1343 engagements

"@giacomozucco @garland_key @satflation @cguida6 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus @csuwildcat courts are way slower than block time. they'll turn up days later"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T08:15Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @TheDeFiRaider @colbyserpa @BitcoinBombadil @EnjoyingBitcoin how far down thought crime list would you want to go UK jumped the shark would you advocate for that also IMO it's probably simpler safer for AWA risk to just neutrally delete all binary content. and try hard to steer spammers out of code hiding by making op return2 cheaper"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:17Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining which is not to say there arent risks - i've been trying to impress upon people the risk of AWA compelled filtering the risk of stuffing illegal content is as old as bitcoin and so not related this release. it could be calmer more fruitful discussion if people recognize that"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T18:36Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@ggmesh @atr0t0s @vector2alpha @peterktodd @NickSzabo4 @weidai11 @CullenHoback riddle me this: why would todd in your theory work for mastercoin R3 viacoin zcash major boring or altcoin consulting gigs - why would someone who has argued/speculated $$ millions in bitcoin personally i'd sooner flip burgers :) completely serious it's about the principle"
X Link @adam3us 2024-10-15T09:53Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"he just doesn't seem to be able to understand the mathematical fact that if you start with a false axiom or assumption like 1+1=3 you can prove all kinds of false things with it. so he's stated an inefficient encoding but failing to realize that there are infinite number of even less efficient encodings so it's not a useful metric for comparison. we can't stop people who want to waste money with inefficient encodings and so it's not a useful critique of anything. it's actually @lukedashjr's fault as he bamboozled them that multiple op returns was "worse" with this same logic trick and they're"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T18:12Z 696.8K followers, 1296 engagements

"@TurkishMaxi That's actually why Bitcoin project does not do auto updates and also back ports security fixes to X prior versions to make it easy for people to get security fixes"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:22Z 696.8K followers, 1263 engagements

"@csuwildcat @colbyserpa @NickSzabo4 Exactly. Why are people so vocally and aggressively ignorant of history hard won legal precedents protective of self-sovereignty in other protocols services and p2p systems. Puzzling. Probably people are just more prone to willful ingnorance than I thought.🤷"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T12:04Z 696.8K followers, 1886 engagements

"@Carl_W_Horton @Leishman @River filters don't do anything positive for preventing spam may actually do something very negative similar to the crux of the apple vs FBI which has been used to compel action XXX times. you don't want to import that jeopardy into bitcoin from ignorance"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T13:03Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@colbyserpa @csuwildcat @NickSzabo4 @ocean_mining the AWA undue burden is they can lose if they need you to modify code. like no non kyc co-signed transactions. again please do not get yolo into compounding more flexible pluggability because something maybe took a mild wrong step"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:53Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"Not even just modify a few parameters or op codes there are an unlimited number of variants. But sure steganography you can't even detect. But you don't need to do that as Bitcoin has lots of organic high entropy data carriers like hashes pubkeys etc. and real pubkeys are indistinguishable from fake pubkeys and have a higher data rate than steganography"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T16:28Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@CaminaDrummer4 What's the security vulnerability fix that is absent from Bitcoin I don't believe that's true and there is at least one security fixe being blocked intentionally by knots. (TRUC lightning pinning fix)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:47Z 696.8K followers, 1529 engagements

"before this @theragetech article i heard unrelated from several contacts that ocean was contacting pools with legal theories to try push their corporate counsel into moderating content. that connects with and looks much worse in context of leaked @lukedashjr IMs in this article"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-25T21:46Z 696.8K followers, 158.7K engagements

"@LordNakamotoX @LukeDashjr @cguida6"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T21:40Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@value_record @NickSzabo4 @piter239 @cornokun @Arthur_van_Pelt @LukeDashjr yah starting to think explaining less things would be better. people often mean well are concerned to fix or improve something but don't understand much and in that context correcting their technical misunderstandings seems to make them madder than a hornet"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T20:11Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@ManliusDaVius there is contention evidently but the technical rationale for it seems hard for people in contention to articulate. what if developers advised you to not put your seeds online would that also enrage you and cause you to post them on twitter to avoid being "dictated to""
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T12:08Z 696.8K followers, 2713 engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @adamamcbride @LukeDashjr @tmornini @gofreesamourai Even if it was p2p file sharing or free-net eternity usenet (I implemented 1997) usenet (also flood fill for XX years now) that ship has been around for decades. Usenet topically is flood fill and was used (abused) for distributing porn DVD movie rips in uuencoded parts"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-07T10:57Z 696.8K followers, 15.9K engagements

"@cguida6 @garland_key @satflation @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus in p2p file sharing they just made examples of random users. in bitcoin they might go after miners. maybe"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T16:30Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@B__T__C @_DavidSFreeman @bitschmidty @Leishman @LukeDashjr @darosior @Excellion that was proceeds from @balajis bet bitcoin would go to a million in a short period of time failing. i think he agreed with the winner to give it to chaincode to fund development work"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:11Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@brobuybitcoin a number of people spent quite a bit of effort there's a XXX question FAQ in stack exchange @murchandamus @_DavidSFreeman @L0RINC @darosior @proofofcash myself and others have been explaining things on twitter. sipa write some blog posts. quite a few video explainers"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T00:10Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"There were two variants one where data is in consensus but elidable easily by nodes and this one where only the size and hash of the data is in consensus. It's accurate but analysis is on the limitations initial reactions I also had. But consider below it's more similar assurance than gut reaction tells us"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T07:53Z 696.8K followers, 6898 engagements

"@theCodyTomblin There is no bug and I assume you're repeating the Taproot "bug" narrative some have been using. It's not a bug just it's generally impossible to prevent data being carried in any programming language or even written English"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:02Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@DudeJLebowski I've been fighting spam consistently for a lot of years. Insta-rejected alt coins. You're very mistaken. Filters are a bad direction there are smarter ways to combat spam that might actually work unlike filters which won't and can't"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T12:00Z 696.8K followers, 2663 engagements

"@JonMatcho The block size is limited for a reason"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T13:07Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@lofiQtip i have no power. all i can do is try to educate so people can make informed decisions. the individual is self-sovereign in bitcoin self-sovereignty comes with the power to shoot yourself in the foot. so try to stay rational out there"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:59Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@giacomozucco @cguida6 @murchandamus it's mostly laziness if 144b op returns worked to start with that's what they would've described as the plan in their paper. and this use case is the most sensitive to filters as they want justice transactions to be relayed fast and reliably. other types of use case not as much"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T06:46Z 696.8K followers, 1061 engagements

"so the "government not buying btc" was a mis-speak and @secscottbessent himself clarified to retract that "Treasury is committed to exploring budget-neutral pathways to acquire more Bitcoin to expand the reserve and to execute on the Presidents promise""
X Link @adam3us 2025-08-14T21:27Z 696.8K followers, 182.4K engagements

"bitcoin develop works by rough consensus and running code. that doesn't mean halt the train without a clearly explained and valid technical objection. if you can provide one and convince me i'll even champion it for you"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-03T23:00Z 696.8K followers, 38.7K engagements

"it doesn't open up anything because: - you can send contiguous images in tapscript hiding also via image hacks - it has been consensus valid to send 1MB op returns since 2009 - 100kB op returns relay and mine in the p2p network since jul 2025 X months before bitcoin XX was released - changing your node configuration won't stop others from mining transactions due to the above or generally. - knots nodes receive store in extrapool relay after receiving the block even with smaller parameter. which is not to say there's not some risk potential. though probably the bigger risk is red-flagging the"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:56Z 696.8K followers, 1751 engagements

"nodes filtering spam doesn't and can't work for very easy to understand reasons: if you impact spammers or miners revenue they will just bypass nodes as they have in the past"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T19:38Z 696.8K followers, 65.6K engagements

"@volpeLP @darosior i didn't ask what is spam. we all know what image spam is i've been combating spam since before bitcoin. mid 90s"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T18:55Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"i'm quite empathetic to people having different views as i hope others are - live and let live. I suggested some kind of finesse / de-escalation parameter change which probably wouldn't hurt the network in practice (160b). not because of logic but sort of relatively harmless fudge factor for human emotions right. but the logic seems quite clear no - if there are compact layer2 anchor/justice transaction related op returns that are above 80b that end up being put in fake pubkeys that is worse. (simple fact). - it's unlikely large spam will be put in op return as it's 4x more expensive. (no use"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T18:36Z 696.8K followers, 9912 engagements

"@1914ad no way. 21m supply cap is immutable enforced by full nodes don't listen to peter todd on that he's pontificating for amusement at peoples reaction"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T20:07Z 696.8K followers, 5778 engagements

"@heavilyarmedc good explainer about bitcoin change process.👍"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T16:33Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Coretarded @Sr_11ss @LukeDashjr Only relatively rarely and for people who seem to not be trying to learn or to be anti Bitcoin saboteurs"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T17:20Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Cipherhoodlum @Leishman @LukeDashjr glad to see you agree on one thing. let's us as bitcoiners mutually agree to not rip it apart over a nothing-burger minor bug fix that doesn't really do anything as it's for a future scenario"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:58Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@DonalDevine no i don't own any mining stocks. and i didn't lose anything on $naka"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-05T19:16Z 696.8K followers, 1037 engagements

"@thecoinening what was the trigger that got people out of covid hysteria bitcoin could use some of it for the spam-hysteria"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:15Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@mattkratter That's bad advice if you don't like the parameter default install XXXX (security backport) or XX and change the parameter as knots has 25k lines of little reviewed changes. @lukedashjr also is blocking TRUC fix for lightning pinning attacks so wouldn't recommend for LN"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:30Z 696.8K followers, 7993 engagements

"so @LukeDashjr blocked me it seems to prevent be debunking more of his false claims. heres another one"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-03T18:07Z 696.8K followers, 185.9K engagements

"@cguida6 Does nothing about inscriptions which are harder to filter or prune. IMO it would be more effective in combating spam to make it rational for the spam industry to move to op return and then give nodes a way to optionally prune spam from storage and relay"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T09:13Z 696.8K followers, 4335 engagements

"now you have your thread locked for people not mentioned in the thread. intentional it's not. you're just mis-understanding this logic"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T14:24Z 696.8K followers, 26.8K engagements

"@LordNakamotoX @LukeDashjr @cguida6 inscriptions images hiding in taproot have myriad variants and so are obviously harder to filter than op return"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T20:30Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@EnjoyingBitcoin btw i'm not sure if you're noticing but the spam over-reaction is seems somewhat similar to covid hysteria. everyone hopes they would be the person who noticed the mass hysteria. but would they really"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T21:44Z 696.8K followers, 4176 engagements

"bitcoin is a transaction network. spam has no place on the timechain. the bitcoin devs who i know agree in monetary maximalism for bitcoin and sipa said the same in stack exchange. just because you have a different view of policy choices to the tolerant minority doesn't mean you can make up things about developers"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-15T16:52Z 696.8K followers, 4558 engagements

"@cguida6 the change you and some others are arguing about is a nothing-burger just fixes a minor bug creating an incentive for layer2 anchors to use fake pubkeys. it's useful to fix it but non-urgent. and as it's not being used it doesn't do much either way"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T21:56Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@B__T__C @LukeDashjr @AnalyticAmerica @ausbtcclub @NickSzabo4 you can not usefully criticize a feature of bitcoin by choosing an artificially worst case encoding efficiency. for example we could say a X input + X output transaction is XXX bytes so with knots we have to use XXX bytes per X byte output so for XX bytes we need 15936bytes"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T16:26Z 696.8K followers, 1090 engagements

"Coincidentally that's what I recommended. But still I think it's untrue to say it socially signals pro spam see Pieters comments about hating spam. Which shouldn't be surprising as Bitcoin devs have been fighting spam since 2010. and op return is 4x more expensive than Taproot hiding so spammers won't use it and if they used it anyway that's actually less bad than using Taproot as it's 4x smaller so less crap for nodes to store and relay plus it's UTXO prunable. And for context the p2p network has been reliably relaying 100kb op returns and mining then into the next block since July XXX 3"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:35Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@Excellion people have short memories. constant flip flop between: oh noe ma familie the fees and oh noe security budget in the future doom"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T19:55Z 696.8K followers, 4761 engagements

"@MeanHash @Leishman @LukeDashjr I agree"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:09Z 696.8K followers, 1522 engagements

"@csuwildcat he is a self-professed monarchist after all :) count me out. i prefer no rulers and p2p bitcoin rough consensus and running code"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T18:09Z 696.8K followers, 7589 engagements

"@giacomozucco @_DavidSFreeman @constructdisrup @satflation @LukeDashjr @darosior and they both said they were against spam. and i know pieter was from already 2013"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T18:47Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@JuergenStrobel @B__T__C no need to wonder here it is :) pretty misleading if you ask me took a bit to figure out what he was even talking about. then you realize 1byte per output"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T20:55Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@chataros ask them why they have disabled TRUC llghtning pinning fix. i'll wait"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T13:21Z 696.8K followers, 3833 engagements

"@Beautyon_ you misread. so the rant is a strawman misfired. the english language example is about programming languages. namely the data hidden in bitcoin script inside taproot"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T17:43Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"people making false claims bitcoin op codes parameters are "designed" or "meant" for spam are actually attacking bitcoin with manufactured legal peril. none of bitcoin is designed for spam it's all designed for financial transactions smart-contracts and small anchors hashes commitments compact proofs for layer2s like lightning"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T09:05Z 696.8K followers, 62.5K engagements

"@pastorcoin @LukeDashjr the open question is do we get some fork coins to sell for more bitcoin along the way"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-13T12:55Z 696.8K followers, 12.1K engagements

"@donttreadonme4_ @natbrunell Well there are multiple things in v30 but assuming you are here to debate datacarriersize start with sipa's blog post on and the XXX question FAQs in stack exchange and then tell us what you disagree with and why. Or even without reading why"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-02T17:29Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@colbyserpa @csuwildcat @NickSzabo4 @ocean_mining someone doing something inadvisable exposing themselves to security and complexity risks is no excuse for the bitcoin reference client to make the same mistakes or to make other mistakes based on "urgency" or "expediency" or "prior mistake precedent". calm down"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:38Z 696.8K followers, 4286 engagements

"@CaminaDrummer4 @L0RINC Presumably your argumentation style irritated him. He is a core contributor so he does know his details well"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:46Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Dimi_h censorship resistance is a core property of bitcoin. i understand that's not convenient for anti-spam which we'd all like to stop. but it is a fact"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T09:13Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@o_lalonde their views are super hard to steelman because that has been possible since jan 2009. and people were mining on CPUs back then later GPUs still today you can rent hashrate for about the cost of the btc it will mine and mine whatever you want anonymously"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T13:35Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@FrankAFetter @franchismo_ Looks like another big Dalai Lama now"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T20:57Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Arthur_van_Pelt that is their mindset in a number of relevant cases for XX years or so. see the 2010 discussion posted on bitcoin talk and pieter's stack exchange posts from a few days ago"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T05:41Z 696.9K followers, XXX engagements

"looking like a big dalai lama maybe the biggest yet"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T08:56Z 696.8K followers, 43K engagements

"hippocratic oath to make the best software. you can't force people to run software nor should you want to. if users dislike progress due to false narratives confusion lack of understanding or bad ideas that catch-on with social media drama what do you do run in a circle like the robot in asimov's "I robot" because it could neither harm nor by inaction cause a human to be harmed or proceed. datacarriersize default change is clearly a nothing burger that fixes a small but long brewing issue. and users can disable it"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T19:22Z 696.8K followers, 9292 engagements

"@B__T__C @LukeDashjr @AnalyticAmerica @ausbtcclub @NickSzabo4 see how nonsensical that is i assume others can see this illogicality. the argument is fallacious because the methodology is defective. @lukedashjr knows this but he used it anyway. help @giacomozucco deprogram one of your boys misleading meme victims :)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T16:28Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @satflation @LukeDashjr also claimed "anti-spam filters work in the p2p network" quizzing him in signal DM he admitted that his definition of "p2p network" excludes nodes and miners with other policies he calls them "attackers" not part of the p2p network"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T14:43Z 696.8K followers, 1484 engagements

"@dotkrueger same for the other coins you've mused about from time to time btw. all alts are junk and will go to zero vs bitcoin"
X Link @adam3us 2025-08-17T08:17Z 696.8K followers, 50.4K engagements

"@colbyserpa @csuwildcat @NickSzabo4 he's talking more about miner filters. and afaik they're not doing that now. build the tools to do it and you can get compelled that's what @csuwildcat is explaining AWA is about. and that's what @ocean_mining is advocating and refusing to listen to risk feedback about"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:04Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@lightcoin but what you have written is not really correct for miners not publishing data as those adding DA size/hash to an op return2 have an incentive to share it as do others reliant on it. they pay for the use of bitcoin scarcity not the publication here"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T17:10Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"filters "working""
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T21:32Z 696.8K followers, 58.8K engagements

"evidence piling up that censorship resistance and curbing spam are fundamentally in conflict the internet physics of this are that: A) prioritizing fighting spam conflicts with B) privacy and uncensorability/decentralization Prioritize 1"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-03T23:58Z 696.8K followers, 109.3K engagements

"@CaminaDrummer4 that's false. bitcoin developers are not pro spam. read Pieter's stack exchange post"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:25Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@john_giovanni_ Bitcoin developers have been fighting spam since 2010. In no way are they friendly to spam. It's just that crude work around can easily create more risk than the problem"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:50Z 696.8K followers, 1693 engagements

"@Saeed_Satoshi let us know"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T16:39Z 696.8K followers, 2797 engagements

"@cguida6 @giacomozucco @murchandamus @robin_linus Layer2 anchors are not necessarily "attackers" and improving layer2 security means we can get more scale and less need to nudge stupid spammy stuff it it moves to layer2. Some of the user are scammy apparently of citrea but not in case of other layer2s using same anchor tech"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T13:54Z 696.8K followers, 2310 engagements

"@JackThornton009 give it a few more days for the dalai lama to refill"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T18:12Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"I assume bitcoiners realize that a well functioning layer1 privacy mechanism would typically make anti-spam filtering information-theoretically impossible. Even the committed transactions proposal from 2013 would have this effect"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T09:39Z 696.8K followers, 88.5K engagements

"@moochieball it's been explained many times by various people. including stack exchange FAQs bitcoin core post delving bitcoin posts etc. this post by @darosior from may is a pretty good summary. it's posted on twitter but also on delving bitcoin"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-06T22:15Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Stopping spam has never worked in the history of the internet Bitcoin has disadvantage of being by design censorship resistant necessarily decentralized architecture. first we have to understand reality if we want to win. Filter as protest ✅ with you but filter working ❌"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-05T14:51Z 696.8K followers, 190.5K engagements

"Seeing a few people making this logic error. Categorically this is true: overpaying or using intentionally low data rate encodings is not something that fees or policy or even consensus rules can fix. If you disagree you may want to try some worked examples before saying more"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T12:24Z 696.8K followers, 58.4K engagements

"@maxkeiser @maxkeiser wasn't paying attention but quick to add gasoline to a dumpster fire for keks"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T18:46Z 696.8K followers, 13.5K engagements

"@timmctavish you're missing the economic point. how do i vote with my wallet. if we don't vote with my wallet we're just shouting on social media. node filters don't do much as there are plenty of people who disagree with principled reason and cancel each other out"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T14:33Z 696.8K followers, 1074 engagements

"@DrawStl4110 I've been fighting spam for XX years one of the few even proposing actual spam mitigation ideas rather than flooding people with libelous illegal content allegations and red flagging to drum up self-attacks on Bitcoin. charitably best that can be said is spam hysteria"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T16:09Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@cguida6 @LibreHans but again what do you propose. they're like water. and it's much easier to filter image spam based on size. even color coin schemes are on chain with client side validation they could switch to those and become harder to block they still would create abandoned utxos"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-23T18:08Z 696.8K followers, 5244 engagements

"The desired outcome of keeping Bitcoin censorship resistant is shared by all. Just some people are less good at understanding network game theory and untangling critical thinking vs how they would like things to work. bitcoin runs on economic game-theory not wishful thinking"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-19T11:08Z 696.8K followers, 177.3K engagements

"@elpapo @ManThatCrazy in another project i might agree but in bitcoin failure is not an option"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:01Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"fighting spam has been an arms race for the history of the internet. and fighting spam is harder on bitcoin due to anti-censorship"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-05T19:04Z 696.8K followers, 48.7K engagements

"@MichaelKWright2 Very simple: I care about Bitcoin. I see people making technically inaccurate claims on either side I try to explain. It's ok for people to have different views on policy. But what can be dangerous is emotional hysteria which looks like COVID hysteria or the big block anger"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T07:12Z 696.8K followers, 5138 engagements

"it's programming XXX that any programming language can have data hidden in any number of ways. and internet power user XXX that any internet protocol can have data stuffed into protocol headers formats etc. even completely non-IT savvy people can see that the english language written in a book can be used to hide data codes in various levels of efficiency. filters to limit spam don't work and can't really work for VERY easy to understand reasons. if you consider yourself a critical thinking man don't trust verify the filter arguments THINK about it for yourself: the p2p network is hard to"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-10T09:18Z 696.8K followers, 25.4K engagements

"they simply thought it was obsolete. and in a technical sense i believe they are right. but yes they removed the deprecation because evidently people want to set it even though it's basically obsolete. not sure where you imagine you're going to get a "new team of developers" from. imagine wading into linux picking an argument with torvalds then saying you're going to fire all of the active kernel developers (employed by dozens of companies universities and not for profits volunteers) and store a new kernel branch. guaranteed you will be dead in the water for years. luckily no one will listen"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T18:07Z 696.8K followers, 1334 engagements

"so with the UK FCA dropping their silly bitcoin ETF ban. are UK residents finding they're able to access the new Blackrock UK bitcoin ETF or other international ETFs in Uk tax advantaged accounts and general portfolios bitcoining minds want to know"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T13:59Z 696.8K followers, 61.7K engagements

"bitcoin should be able to organize itself in terms of socializing changes in such a way that we don't fall apart to developer nerd sniping between a pedantic windmill tilting reckless religious crusader and people who need all arguments to be technically grounded"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:03Z 696.8K followers, 37.3K engagements

"@TylerCompiler That's not what they did there is nothing to make spam easier in Bitcoin XX. That's a narrative promoted by some people but it's untrue. And drama about illegal content risk it's ok to hear a concern but it's not new and not related to Bitcoin XX that risk existed since 2009"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:43Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"so this says you didn't want op return function to change. it didn't* change. just a policy which is not enforceable by nodes anyway to fix the fake pubkey mal-incentive which is a nothing burger fix makes no sense to get angry about. and the network has been relaying 100kb op returns which get mined in the network since july 2025. so how is this parameter being XX XXX or 100kb going to affect anything for either view i really don't think it does and would assume either view if actually rationally and logical should be about as happy throwing a dice for the setting. its a long term slow to"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T13:19Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"you probably need an optimal mix of klingon ferengi and vulcan for bitcoin. klingon - mad about spam sending social message. ferengi - to get that economics drive everything. vulcan - to do the game-theory and coding. the federation is multi-species but works pretty well"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-02T13:08Z 696.8K followers, 35.1K engagements

"@BitcoinNews21M keep your bitcoin. drive a used car"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T09:59Z 696.8K followers, 42.9K engagements

"@parkeralewis @giacomozucco @cguida6 @murchandamus Also probably the Bitcoin core blog post was a bit bland and short on historical context or elaboration (felt that way to me so I went off on a side quest trying to ab-initio reproduce rationale for myself don't trust verify style)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T13:41Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Arthur_van_Pelt i'd recommend accepting security bug & robustness fixes but it's a free world it's your risk. note knots has 25k lines of little reviewed patches on top of bitcoin. and for nonsensical reasons blocks TRUC lightning pinning attack fixes. wouldn't recommend running LN on knots"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:45Z 696.8K followers, 1411 engagements

"@satflation it's the same reason @lopp blocked you i explained to you before no one wants to be flooded with illegal content slurs. just ask your questions in less loaded ways. or it looks like trying to deter discussion risks by having everyone back away from a radioactive thread"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T18:30Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"This post from may which I reposted I realized was wrong as it's looking at the wrong GitHub metric. And corrected in half a dozen places. But as people are not seeing it and trying to make drama out of it I deleted and put correction in new thread. Attached is original"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:21Z 696.8K followers, 22.8K engagements

"@LaurentMT @CaminaDrummer4 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @satflation @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin from a security perspective it means we should not assume the anti-spam filters with users motivated to bypass and miners willing to go along are reliable. and some of that motivation like libre relay is also anti-spam i think they just are empirically trying to show something"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T11:40Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@cguida6 @ProofOfCash @NickSzabo4 @LordNakamotoX @LukeDashjr A guess: latency degradation in compactBlocks Curious also. In some ways it's centralizing and cuts nodes out of relay nudge influence"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T13:45Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@asanoha_gold curiously it applies to both sides. i see people being illogical who i thought were calm steady long term bitcoiners. who are now losing their marbles over a minor bug fix. for a parameter that has no bearing on their new concern over something possible since 2009"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T21:29Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"here's a proposal: no tax on bitcoin period. @jack"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T19:34Z 696.8K followers, 167.2K engagements

"I agree however there is a much stronger case for that with consensus rules. With node policy the network can't enforce that anyway and different users can run different policies and peacefully co-exist. So I believe developers who make 1000s of small changes over the years to fix bugs add security protections improve network decentralization robustness and performance generally are not as much thinking this strongly needs to be the case for clear win win improvements that have no nakamoto consensus impact. They think it's win-win but only minor bug fix so it could be delayed but are we going"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T10:39Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@beeforbacon1 it's a battle for the default they're not content to set their own defaults they want to push their preferred defaults on other people"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:24Z 696.8K followers, 1287 engagements

"developers aren't always the best at socializing changes. remember this satoshi quote "I'm better with code than with words". but that's ok - power users technical podcasters tech journalists people who write documentation bloggers can all help with the words"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:57Z 696.8K followers, 27.5K engagements

"@BTC_Archive why not just no tax on bitcoin period"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T19:17Z 696.8K followers, 88.4K engagements

"@volpeLP @theCodyTomblin The same would be possible in segwit p2wsh. Or spam sent in op return or fake pubkeys. What caused the spam wave was the alt coins bear market and available VC money for Bitcoin layer2 so some alts rebranded as layer2 and imported meme and NFT scams"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:33Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@Pakkaustukku @GrassFedBitcoin they could mine these for the last decade with not much effort 100kB has been consensus valid since 2014 op return data introduction. There were a few eg an 80kB op return is noted on stack exchange"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-15T19:06Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"how nodes aren't able to reliably enforce policy at all if the transactor and miner or other users want to transact. bitcoin network is censorship resistant by design. 100kb op returns have been possible since 2009. even 1mb op returns. they even relay reliably on the network since july 2025 and get mined in the next block even 3months core XX was released"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T12:39Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@flaming_hodl op return has been there since 2009"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T00:39Z 696.8K followers, 2964 engagements

"@heavilyarmedc it's bad advice anyway. not a detail person evidently. probably over focused on legal risk. maybe he wouldn't have run a tor exit node or remailer either not sure"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T14:21Z 696.8K followers, 2094 engagements

"@mattkratter @AsyncN8 @LukeDashjr @1914ad @BitcoinPierre does it not concern you that most of these things make things worse for nodes and are very predictable My opinion is it's better to focus on winning looking multiple moves ahead not playing losing games with zero look ahead "see we tried that will send a message""
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T17:31Z 696.8K followers, 1104 engagements

"@parkeralewis @giacomozucco @cguida6 @murchandamus I think it's better to look at the bitVM general design which has potential to harden peg security of fedimint ark liquid things like that. And maybe the research direction eventually leads to trustless reactive security versions without even 1ofn honest party trust"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T13:43Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

""Trump told me he owns a significant amount of bitcoin. not going to disclose the number. he had a significant position even at that time and price has gone up a lot since. it's about alignment what's good for bitcoin is good for all of us" -@DavidFBailey @saylor's $100k NYE"
X Link @adam3us 2025-01-14T17:59Z 696.8K followers, 286.8K engagements

"people need to educate themselves to stop burning out on false narratives. doesn't help them and doesn't help bitcoin. their energy is better spent advocating for bitcoin or keeping up with technical developments running a node evangelizing users etc"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-01T11:03Z 696.8K followers, 62.8K engagements

"@FractalEncrypt Hi @FractalEncrypt I recognize the handle. Can we try to approach this calmly and logically to try understand. What is it that you think "core" did to create shame"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:20Z 696.8K followers, 5463 engagements

"@giacomozucco @garland_key @satflation @cguida6 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus no either miner is using plugin filters and know how to use or the court could provide filter to run. but IMO we're into la-la land her speculating. there are XX cases of compelled situations under AWA per @csuwildcat. you'd need to go read them or ask an expert to make useful"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T08:02Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@rodarmor @murchandamus @BitMEXResearch if you're publishing it then you'd make it available as would other users of the same layer2 and power users generally"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T20:41Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@parhamesque @LukeDashjr the power trip at boeing is perplexing lets start a social media drama train to reject control system bug fixes. they're "forcing" opt-in upgrades"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:36Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"that was a new ATH on @bitfinex at $123.89k just now but not ATH on the more retail exchanges as they had an exaggerated blow of top in aug.🟩"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-03T17:59Z 696.8K followers, 67.8K engagements

"@Bill_Fowler_ Good way to frame the observation. Check-mate filter proponents But at least the smarter ones know filters don't really work in practice due to the censorship-resistant flood fill network architecture. They get it but want to send a social signal via code rather than words"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T09:11Z 696.8K followers, 1303 engagements

"@bitcoin1zation Ask @lukedashjr why he is blocking TRUC lightning fixes in knots. (He blocks me but unblocks to get his comments in thread and reblocks to hide my response pretty weak)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:25Z 696.8K followers, 1974 engagements

"i think it's rather people who are responsible for high assurance custody are better able to focus on security decisions. we get you don't like illegal image risk. but trezor's job is to protect a huge amount of bitcoin. they can't afford to get nerd swiped or illegal data hysteria. and they're correct: bitcoin has the best security reviewed best security practices practices and the group of security professionals working on it have a lot of years of bitcoin derived experience and track record of being trusted to handle security risks and fixes. i assume you read @fanquake's post"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T18:59Z 696.8K followers, 11.5K engagements

"I understand people are combative about it. it's not bad faith at all but someone could be forgiven for developing that view given the noise on social media. But It doesn't carry any NEW risk as large op returns have been valid since 2009. The only moderately logical argument is the social signal but that is easily addressed on social media or a release note. The only thing that would actually prevent large op returns is a soft fork anyway such as @PortlandHODL proposed"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:59Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"reminder last halving cycle top was mar 2024 $73.7k cycle started may 2020 this cycle started apr 2024. there were earlier tops apr 2021 $64.8k and nov 2021 $69k. cycle end estimate mar 2028 so for cycle top calls Q4 2027 (or Q1 2028) is a X year interval from prior cycle top"
X Link @adam3us 2025-08-13T13:10Z 696.8K followers, 508.8K engagements

"it's rather different type of policy the policy in bitcoin is like minrelayfee fees dust limit soft-fork upgrade hooks TRUC etc. the filters are looking inside spend scripts and presumably soon anchors hash outputs etc look for heuristics. i wouldn't recommend using an issue to blow the barn doors off and make it worse"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T07:36Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"Bitcoin is the hurdle rate"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-05T16:14Z 696.8K followers, 204.1K engagements

"@flaming_hodl @LukeDashjr it's just a parameter default you can just edit the configuration or command line flag if you have different views they made it real easy for you"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:51Z 696.8K followers, 2522 engagements

"@giacomozucco @ProofOfCash @namco_company more secure layer2s with ZKPs i think is more interesting"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T22:29Z 696.8K followers, 1445 engagements

"@Dimi_h it's the same mechanism for discriminated against minorities they need their transactions to be relayed. easier for a spammer to bypass as they have developers"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T06:52Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@FractalEncrypt @NicerInPerson Weird timeline where roles are reversed. @NicerInPerson (sort of dedicated nocoiner I thought) making more sense than @FractalEncrypt (OG Bitcoin artist). Logic is falling Can we hit rewind please"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T11:25Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@sacking_stats @LukeDashjr he got a bit paranoid about covid. gotta say the anti-spam hysteria seems a bit covid hysteria like"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:10Z 696.8K followers, 1129 engagements

"here's a better one @mikeinspace @bitmexresearch @darosior"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-07T14:59Z 696.8K followers, 42.5K engagements

"@BBaconBitz @satflation @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin i'm proposing something more realistic. you can still try to discourage them in parallel but i'm skeptical it will work so i'd prefer to work on actual solutions"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T17:35Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@Cipherhoodlum @Leishman @LukeDashjr As long as he doesn't create risk to Bitcoin. Bitcoin is more important than all of us"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:18Z 696.8K followers, 8941 engagements

"@BitcoinMaxiHodl knots XX (when released) will be bitcoin XX as they will rebase on it. or if they don't you shouldn't run it as bitcoin has the braintrust - people with years of experience the best security analysis the protocol smarts to implement complex features like TRUC XX% faster sync"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-23T10:57Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@garland_key @satflation @cguida6 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus but in bitcoin the p2p network is more integrity protected and better DoS protected so they might go after miners which need to be more decentralized and anonymous. so building plugin filtering is an AWA compelled action risk with centralized mining"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T14:54Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Logic would say if there is no incentive to relay large op returns then they won't be relayed. But if they were it's less bad for noderunners already related in the p2p network etc. It seems to me you've absorbed some false narratives also are assumed the worst without talking to people. Happy to connect and have a calm rational conversation"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-08T12:33Z 696.8K followers, 17.8K engagements

"@MeanHash @Leishman @LukeDashjr Not all things that are problems have solutions or if they do have solutions they can come with worse risks than living with the problem. Eg you could probably address spam by centralizing Bitcoin but then it wouldnt be permissionless or censorship resisitant"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:16Z 696.8K followers, 1510 engagements

"Those who refuse to learn from history are doomed to repeat it. Running p2p nodes too decentralized and anonymous to stop is what defends individual sovereignty. Self-watering down p2p systems won't help them stay robust it's just a slippery slope. Arguing decentralization doesn't matter that much likewise. There are decades of empirical evidence even hard won legal precedent that robustly prove otherwise. This may be the first time I've seen self-sovereignty p2p system's own proponents loud in their self concern try to weaken the system they care deeply about with well meaning but misguided"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-25T09:13Z 696.8K followers, 162.9K engagements

"@bitschmidty @B__T__C @Leishman @LukeDashjr Yes I had actually already self corrected the ref of may post as I realized that data can't be right as @darosior mentioned in the way of explaining changes are meritocratic not personality or feelings based that Luke had a PR he had reviewed that he thought was in XX release"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:52Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining exactly. it's data hidden inside protocol details where it doesn't belong. that's possible for any internet protocol and any programming language even english text"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T18:33Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@satflation @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin the network is literally designed to be censorship resistant. bitcoin relies on the tolerant minority to relay and on some miners to mine transactions from unpopular or discriminated against minorities. that's what makes bitcoin permissionless censorship-resistant unseizable"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T15:25Z 696.8K followers, 4237 engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @cguida6 @LordNakamotoX @LukeDashjr then we have the other problem if the filter hypothetically did work on the network miners can easily bypass it they have the tools as they have done it before with fibre private peering submission APIs. and spammers can rent hashrate and self-mine whatever they want also"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T00:24Z 696.8K followers, 1689 engagements

"@WillSuter10 @NickSzabo4 @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining if you think i'm pro-spam you're suffering reading comprehension issues"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T18:10Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@maxkeiser it's uninformed nonsense. he should know better than to spread false narratives. bitcoin is a serious asset class"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T19:06Z 696.8K followers, 11.7K engagements

"i will be running bitcoin v30"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-22T14:48Z 696.8K followers, 233.1K engagements

"@giacomozucco @garland_key @satflation @cguida6 @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin @darosior @Pledditor @murchandamus @csuwildcat block validity is very slow that's a soft-fork. hard-fork or re-org with international mining compelled action. it that happens we're in ETH land"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T08:08Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@satflation @beeforbacon1 censorship resistant hard money bearer electronic cash"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:57Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@gerovich not bad. but i'm thinking 3000 based on mNAV months to cover norms etc"
X Link @adam3us 2025-06-30T16:40Z 696.8K followers, 11.9K engagements

"@peterktodd @La__Cuen @bramcohen alt coin marketing what do you expect"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-03T21:05Z 696.8K followers, 1041 engagements

"don't make @bitmexresearch write the spam wars book :)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T16:52Z 696.8K followers, 30K engagements

"@lightcoin you may prefer the variant where miners include the data but data-pruned nodes could omit storage/relay. you could do something like that in a complex inefficient way with ZKPs with todays op return formats so you can view op return2 as segwit discounted simpler to elide format"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T17:09Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@hugomofn @darosior @giacomozucco @nunchuk_io Ah some of the contributors but a lot of explainer effort in too right. There's a XXX question FAQ in stack exchange. You can bet basically none of the noisy people read it even though @coinjoined keeps reposting"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T18:07Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @piter239 @cornokun @Arthur_van_Pelt the only logical claim is the "social message" and the NOT new "potential illegal content" a risk since jan 2009. ok to talk about risks but it's not to do with bitcoin XX release. (100kB op returns relayed and mined in next block since jul 2025 before bitcoin XX was released)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T18:01Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@BritishHodl well technicallly. SNB has X% of it's wealth fund like share-portfolio allocated to $MSTR indirectly bitcoin before - just actively managed bitcoin"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T13:56Z 696.8K followers, 3372 engagements

"@GShodl @heavilyarmedc @AsyncN8 @LukeDashjr @1914ad @BitcoinPierre @udemy He doesn't he seemed to like op return2 type of approach"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T17:33Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"@johnBTCdoe @asanoha_gold eg have a go at steel-manning why was datacarrier increased and what was the bug it was fixing if you can't steelman that which you're arguing against when it has most of the brainiacs explaining the logic you have a problem"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-11T22:37Z 696.8K followers, 1125 engagements

"Luke is unblocking replying and reblocking so that people can't correct him in thread. Such a weak move. The smarter thing to do is rebase on XXXX as there are half a dozen security bug fixes in it. And also @lukedashjr should stop being silly and stop blocking TRUC lightning pinning fixes. And the TRUC security fix in XX is more robust than in 29"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:58Z 696.8K followers, 69.1K engagements

"@mattkratter @AsyncN8 @LukeDashjr @1914ad @BitcoinPierre sort of inevitable anyway as any properly functioning layer1 privacy solution would as a side effect also likely render spam filtering impossible. Maybe it would be more constructive to focus on layer1 privacy than playing whackamole which leads to privacy for spam only"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T15:54Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"There is no fix due to what I said. It's possible to hide data in any programming language in myriad ways. Only option is to disable script outright. But then they would spam in op return which is less bad due to pruning. If you disable op.retunr they spam in fake pubkeys which is even worse. So what do you propose Easy to criticize if there's no conceivable fix to an inherent information theory limitation"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T15:37Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"Bitcoin is owned by humanity the protocol developers are stewards and need consensus from users to change it materially. bitcoin is about money spam has no place in the timechain. what defaults the bitcoin core project puts in the reference client matter in this"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-05T05:04Z 696.8K followers, 903.1K engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @cguida6 @LordNakamotoX @LukeDashjr Anti-spam filters don't really work if there are even XX% of nodes that run more relaxed policies due to node fan out and the censorship-resistant network design to protect unpopular minority's ability to transact. Or X% or less with preferential peering libre relay"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-15T00:16Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@BBaconBitz @satflation @rleder @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @LukeDashjr @GrassFedBitcoin then you should like op return2 as it's all about making it optional for you to receive store or relay op return data while still being able to run a (data-pruned) fullnode"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-14T17:06Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements

"becoming more convinced that there's something fundamental in conflict and that the internet physics of this are that A) prioritizing fighting spam conflicts with B) privacy and uncensorability. Pick 1"
X Link @adam3us 2025-09-27T15:15Z 696.8K followers, 121.4K engagements

"@LesFender4 Even if Taproot didn't exist the same spam hiding can be done in segwit p2sh (2017) or op return (2010) or fake pubkeys (2009)"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:50Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"It was Pieter who wrote the blog post and the stack exchange. And he is almost always polite dislikes drama and is quite good at concise explanations focussed on the point . @Gloznow is the equivalent of janito in this maybe she said a few things that annoyed people. Sure about @lopp but you know if lopp told you your ears stuck out and you should not post your seeds online you would post them on twitter to spite him"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T14:40Z 696.8K followers, 4469 engagements

"@roryhighside @4moonsettler @NickSzabo4 @caoimhinllc @phyrooo @lorandimecs @Excellion @jonasschnelli @robin_linus The reputation remains stellar. Sure EQ compromise but that's a mildly inferior and self admitted by you even nothing burger. So really what we have is some form of irrational spam hysteria. The only way to even do anything is a soft fork which @PortlandHODL suggested"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T07:52Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Singekino_Miner the spammers are nothing to do with bitcoin developers they've been fighting spam since 2010. i hope lots of miners block spam. keep going👍 there are no spam enabling and no spam friendly changes in bitcoin 30"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T12:11Z 696.8K followers, 1811 engagements

"@thecoinening if this is it it could use work :) a number of bitcoiners i know seem to have taken offense to "forced change" or the communication style. others seem worse immersed in spam hysteria and not listening to reason believing illogical things and closed minded to logic"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:14Z 696.8K followers, XXX engagements

"@Zatoichi42 They did not this is nonsense. Op returns were in Bitcoin from 2009"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-13T11:25Z 696.8K followers, 5049 engagements

"damn. that's huge :) first EU country to put btc in sovereign wealth fund. X% but price will fix that"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-09T12:34Z 696.8K followers, 183.4K engagements

"@btc__realtor @LukeDashjr @Leishman note i realized the source data is wrong see correction"
X Link @adam3us 2025-10-12T17:26Z 696.8K followers, XX engagements