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@oomahq "Again I was repeatedly assured this was already possible way before "the OP_RETURN upgrade" as spammers are calling Core v30"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-16T15:40Z 1939 followers, 5420 engagements

"@Cipherhoodlum @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @soloyopee @adam3us @csuwildcat @coinjoined @start9labs @MattHill All these people are making a career of pretending to not understand simple things"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-18T11:19Z 1772 followers, XX engagements

"@the_charlatan_ @PortlandHODL Can you find me an example of a comment in that PR that goes along the lines of "ACK. This change will be very controversial and will cost Core a lot of its users but it should be done anyway.""
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-18T15:23Z 1772 followers, XX engagements

"Agreed. People who understand Bitcoin's value proposition (global censorship resistant payments & inflation resistant currency) don't have "seamless UX experience" as their highest priority. Fixing the longstanding problems of the L1 (chiefly mining centralization) is much more important than scaling. Thank God someone is seriously working on solving this"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-18T17:17Z 1772 followers, XXX engagements

"I didn't miss anything. When Liquid Spark Tether and whoever else start censoring the payments of their userbase I will still be able to spend my onchain UTXOs however I want. But only if Foundry and AntPool are not compelled into XX% attacking the network. Defusing the Stratum v1 bomb is much more important to me as a Bitcoin user"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-18T17:30Z 1772 followers, XXX engagements

"@notgrubles Code it. Let's see if it gets adoption"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T16:39Z 1920 followers, XXX engagements

"@cguida6 Do you really need a mempool to relay a tx to your peers once your node receives it I'd say the purpose of the mempool is to build block templates for hashing"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T17:49Z 1976 followers, XXX engagements

"@stephanlivera @wyatt_earp Yes. It can be argued that up to Core v30 the reference client resisted arbitrary data. Even inscriptions are data tortured to look like Bitcoin script and trick the interpreter. Starting from Core v30 the client is officially an open file server as well as a cryptocurrency"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T18:25Z 1937 followers, XXX engagements

"@GregTonoski @cguida6 My point is that from a programming perspective you could do this without keeping the tx around in the mempool. Relay and forget. But to build fresh block templates constantly you do need the mempool (or more generally a cache of unconfirmed txs no need to be in RAM)"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T18:52Z 1976 followers, XX engagements

"Nonsense. The purpose of the OP_RETURN on release was just to abort script execution with a failure to make an output provably unspendable. The sad fact that the consensus rules accept up to 1MB of arbitrary data after it wasn't discovered until years later and the opcode wasn't officially repurposed for embedding very small chunks of arbitrary data until 2014. The rationale at the time was to stop people from encoding data in bare multisig addresses. But as history has shown (and I said earlier): every new vector of abuse that is opened will be exploited"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T19:01Z 1922 followers, XX engagements

"According to both Core and Knots documentation (or lack thereof) inscriptions are pure Bitcoin script (code) and OP_RETURNs pure arbitrary data. That defense may or may not work in the case of inscriptions. But it will SURELY not work for OP_RETURNs since Core's documentation literally says "this is the sanctioned method for anon people to pay to put up to 100KB of CSAM onchain""
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T19:07Z 1961 followers, XXX engagements

"@the_charlatan_ @BitcoinErrorLog $27.7T more efficient in 2023 compared to 2022 😂 What is the nature of those changes"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T19:26Z 1976 followers, XXX engagements

"@wyatt_earp @stephanlivera He thinks "nothing can be done about it" so might as well help the spammers"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T19:56Z 1935 followers, XX engagements

"@cguida6 The mempool exists since the first release of Bitcoin (I think) and initially nodes were supposed to be used to "generate coins". It seems to me that during 2011-2016 they were rather useless on most nodes until Compact Block Relay was widely deployed"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T20:08Z 1772 followers, XXX engagements

"I maintain that the primary purpose of a mempool is to build block templates. CBR is nice and can help save bandwidth but it's still something that was tacked on top afterwards. In the era of the BitAxe and DATUM there's absolutely no reason for any node to not be a mining node. If this catches on and becomes part of the "culture" in the future there will be more options for noderunners to command more hashrate than just a few Th/s (hashrate markets)"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T20:16Z 1976 followers, XXX engagements

"@satflation Subversion happens one small step at a time"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-20T00:15Z 1776 followers, XX engagements

"@calibrated_lies @satflation Read next tweet. X weeks later Marco Falke included the changes in another PR that went through"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-20T07:45Z 1776 followers, XX engagements

"I don't share this narrative. The onchain network is settling trillions of $ of value each year (even though we peaked in 2021). The public lightning network currently has 3750 BTC locked in it for a market cap of about $400M. For the LN to settle as much value as onchain did last year ($19.2T) it would need to settle 48300 times its own market cap in micropayments. Not likely considering that onchain is "only" able to settle XX to XX times its own market cap every year and some of its payments can be in the billions of dollars. Onchain sees a lot more usage than any L2 and its problems are"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-18T18:28Z 2020 followers, XXX engagements

"@KenobiGeneral5 🤔"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T16:24Z 2005 followers, XXX engagements

"@BitcoinErrorLog Filling the blocks with arbitrary data is just a denial of service attack. The only thing shitcoiners manage to do is to drive out economic activity from Bitcoin. Which incidentally is the only thing that can keep it working long term (post subsidy)"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T18:38Z 2014 followers, 1536 engagements

"If you only learn one thing about the OP_RETURN drama make it this: The biggest threat to Bitcoin's censorship resistance is that the biggest pools stop mining on top of blocks found by anyone and start mining only on top of blocks found by a small cartel of pools. Another name for this scenario is XX% attack. Independent solo mining would not be possible anymore and you'd need to join the cartel and pass KYC to mine. If that happens your txs will only get mined if they enter Foundry's or AntPool's mempool. States will lean on this chokepoint to apply blacklists first on their mempools then"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-08T20:58Z 2038 followers, 26.7K engagements

"@bergealex4 Since Bitcoin became a cheap file server I can transact at sub X s/vB whenever I want. No one who still uses bitcoin as money needs any scaling solution but go ahead waste your time"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T11:10Z 2039 followers, 2963 engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @adam3us @bar_dictum @satflation @zamir591582 @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch Adam was blissfully unaware until yesterday that Marathon does active content moderation of the txs they accept out of band with Slipstream"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T13:12Z 2045 followers, 24.1K engagements

"@stephanlivera @wyatt_earp X. All mempools are private. X. The number of large (83 bytes) op_returns that end up onchain was still negligible as recently as last month"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T17:40Z 2027 followers, XXX engagements

"Interesting take. I maintain that the mempool was designed for creating block templates because Satoshi's initial idea was that the "full node" and the "miner" were the same package. Block templates are created by the miners own software not by the protocol itself I'm only aware of Core/Knots GetBlockTemplate RPC call do you know of other software for creating block templates I don't think GBT existed since the beginning it was an early BIP"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T20:32Z 2033 followers, XX engagements

"Can you elaborate on this I'm definitely excited about all of the free-market ways we can solve mining centralization. Look into NiceHash. It's basically a service where you can use bitcoin it to pay for a certain amount of hashrate delivered over a certain period of time and you point it anywhere you want (a pool or your DATUM Gateway). I think the future of mining will look like that if bitcoiners understand that its up to them to hash to maintain the system. The market will split into hash providers that will sell it on the open market and hashrate buyers (bitcoiners). Hosting companies"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T20:41Z 2027 followers, XXX engagements

"@Cipherhoodlum @cguida6 This explanation seems very focused on non-mining nodes and a bit hand-wavy on the mining part. until it is accepted into a block. And how does that happen Because mining nodes are building block templates from their mempools"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T21:03Z 2032 followers, XX engagements

"@satflation "At this point I don't think it is not up to this project to prescribe what Bitcoin is. If you mean a description I am wondering what the goal of it would be considering that (likely) anyone finding this project would already know about Bitcoin.""
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T23:24Z 2021 followers, XXX engagements

"There's also that weird tidbit where Wladimir closed the original PR saying "Closing this this was a bad idea I'm sorry" but X weeks later the same changes were included in another PR and he ACKed them without explaining why he changed his mind. Later on in February '23 he resigned as lead maintainer of Core and no replacement was appointed"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T23:29Z 2030 followers, XXX engagements

"@ndgo1370 Certainly a lot of devs have expressed views that Bitcoin is just yet another blockchain/cryptocurrency"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T10:49Z 2027 followers, XX engagements

"@BitcoinBombadil @giacomozucco @notgrubles Yes IIRC they bragged about "welcoming Russian oligarchs to Whirlpool" or something like that"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T20:15Z 2047 followers, XXX engagements

"Other juicy bits. At the time (2018 X years before the inscription spam attack) they only managed to retrieve 1600 files from the Bitcoin blockchain"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T23:14Z 2045 followers, XXX engagements

"@OperationBiggie @mattkratter @adam3us @bstrco It should be obvious by now that Satoshi was the friends we made along the way"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T00:48Z 2047 followers, XXX engagements

"Remember the arbitrariness of the Samourai and Tornado Cash devs prosecutions. If you feel 100000% sure that Bitcoin Core sanctioning large chunks of arbitrary data embedding as an officially supported use case of the Bitcoin network won't have any consequences you're full of shit. And CSAM in node runners hard drives is not even the worse threat: it's the increased likelihood that Stratum v1 pools will start actively moderating the contents of the txs received from the P2P network. This would very likely be the prelude of a XX% attack that nails the coffin of Bitcoin's true censorship"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-01T21:45Z 2042 followers, 22.3K engagements

"@ndgo1370 Many people don't seem to understand (or pretend to not understand) that of all the infinite ways to embed data onchain OP_RETURN is the only one that is unambiguous and specifically created for this purpose"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-15T13:16Z 2045 followers, 6029 engagements

"@notgrubles @MiyamotoClan Not true Slipstream and similar services are moderated. The P2P relay network isn't"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T22:52Z 2042 followers, XX engagements

"The groundwork actually started in 2022 a year before the first waves of spam. The readme of the project was rewritten from "Bitcoin is an experimental digital currency that enables instant payments to anyone anywhere in the world. ." to "Bitcoin Core is a full node implementation for the Bitcoin P2P network""
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-19T23:21Z 2044 followers, 2452 engagements

"@privateimtiaz Arrowslits are cool. Very citadel-like"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T22:38Z 2042 followers, XX engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @socrates1024 @iang_fc @zooko @oleganza I imagine you probably would like to know that Graeber's views on money have become pretty popular as of late among the Bitcoin influencer class"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T00:08Z 2048 followers, XXX engagements

"@btcblockjams This is precisely the path that Core v30 has set us on"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T00:57Z 2044 followers, XX engagements

"Admittedly this would have barely registered even to me if it wasn't for everything else that happened later. But everything else did happen so this stands out. Would be awesome if laanwj chimed in and remembered why he thought the change was such a bad idea but changed his mind X weeks later. Shame he didn't explain why in his ACK of the second PR"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T07:47Z 2045 followers, XX engagements

"@zndtoshi @GrassFedBitcoin Yes both the current mining landscape and development landscape are very centralized so the network depends on them not acting retarded. The tools to solve mining centralization already exist at least (DATUM)"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T09:12Z 2045 followers, XX engagements

"@cguida6 Relax I was told it's a bugfix"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T16:26Z 2047 followers, 1167 engagements

"@zndtoshi @GrassFedBitcoin I think Bitcoin as we know it won't survive the current mining and development centralization and that Luke made a good call developing DATUM last year and maintaining Knots since 2011"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T09:21Z 2045 followers, XX engagements

"@zndtoshi @GrassFedBitcoin Too bad we aren't shitcoiners and we're not going anywhere. You're stuck with us trying to fix this stupid thing"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T09:29Z 2044 followers, XX engagements

"@MajorianBTC And people do for the record:"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T19:13Z 2045 followers, XX engagements

"@giacomozucco @notgrubles States don't tend to act deterministically. Look at Samourai they weren't transmitting third party money in any way shape or capacity. That didn't stop the USG from prosecuting them on these grounds and beating them into submission once they were kidnapped"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T19:52Z 2047 followers, XXX engagements

"@B__T__C As much as I'm tempted to shit on Core v28.3 didn't uncap the op_return limit. It did lower the default minrelaytxfee to XXX s/vB though and they argued it is a bugfix. Therefore it's expected that they will backport the op_return change too eventually"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T22:55Z 2047 followers, XXX engagements

"You probably haven't seen that the conclusion of the researchers who already investigated onchain arbitrary data years ago is that blockchains should fight CSAM tooth and nail using any and all tools at our disposal. Full paper (2018):"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-21T23:06Z 2047 followers, 2252 engagements

"@john_giovanni_ @mcgooberty20764 @adam3us @adam3us if Bitcoin's success requires that everyone treats developers in a certain way I'm sure you can see it will never work"
X Link @oomahq 2025-10-22T09:56Z 2047 followers, X engagements