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Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @adam3us @mrhodl @cguida6 @excellion @defigiveaways @giacomozucco @snyke @buymatador @lukedashjr @jgarzik @peterktodd @kyletorpey @captainbsv @mikeinspace @darosior @bitcoinbombadil @zodiacustody @davidfbailey @arthurvanpelt @bitcoinmooky

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"@theinstagibbs Gold is money We need to oppose and filter people using gold for other purposes like jewellery electronic components or teeth. Filter out people with gold teeth from your life"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T12:12Z 119.5K followers, 3851 engagements

"@defigiveaways @adam3us @mikeinspace @darosior Who gives a rats arse about a policy I thought this was the thing you were claiming wasn't broken and were asking about"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-07T16:36Z 119.5K followers, XX engagements

"@Beautyon_ I thought the profit motive was core to capitalism and this was the common definition Didn't think I was making up a private definition"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-04T10:54Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"The first debate about arbitrary data in the blockchain happened in December 2010 and Satoshi was involved On 8th December 2010 Satoshi released Bitcoin version 0.3.18 which included a standardness check to only include known transaction types 🧵"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-09-29T17:40Z 119.6K followers, 303.8K engagements

"Yes these spam systems have indeed occurred all over Bitcoin history * Sept 2011 Single Satoshi Spam * Satoshi Dice in 2012 * April 2013: txns with XX outputs attack * 2014 Sochi spam * Sept 2014 Single Satoshi Spam again * Three waves of spam attacks in 2015 * The Aug 2015 Giv3r spam * Omni/Tether - Huge volume of txns lasted for years * Counterparty - Huge volumes of transactions lasted for years * Nov 2016 "Busy week spam" * March 2017 txns with XX outputs each of XXXXXX BTC wallet spam * Oct 2018 Bestmixer spam * 2019 Veriblock spam (Huge volume) * 2020 momo spam * 2023: Oridnals and"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T15:09Z 119.6K followers, 116K engagements

"@cguida6 @BitcoinMooky @adam3us There was a huge boom in Runes which uses small OP_Returns Runes are like XX% of all transactions on the network millions of them. That is why the % of OP_Returns which are large is so low"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T18:42Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Fork Monitor is now running Bitcoin Core v30 🔥🔥🔥 (It is also running Bitcoin Knots 0.29.1 and Libre Relay 29.1)"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-12T13:09Z 119.6K followers, 45.4K engagements

"@maxkeiser Dont want to watch Jerry in 1978 I want to watch Max in 1978"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-09T18:49Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"If one truly believes money is a better use of Bitcoin than an arbitrary data storage system one should be happy to let the market decide It's those who want effective filters that doubt the value of Bitcoin as money"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-01T15:55Z 119.5K followers, 22K engagements

"@alpacasw @MrHodl @giacomozucco Is RGB an investment Isn't it an open source protocol without a token"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T11:47Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@defigiveaways @adam3us @mikeinspace @darosior Because the large OP_RETURNs are already reliably mined The software needs to keep up with the reality on the network so that many important parts of the software keep working effectively"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-07T16:03Z 119.5K followers, 13K engagements

"Another interesting angle is that many in the pro-Knots camp are spreading a lot of fear and noise about CSAM risk. Ironically this fear spreading and narrative will increase the risks of CSAM appearing on onchain to a much greater extent than the risks from increasing the default relay policy limit In a similiar way during the blocksize war the large blockers made a big part of their narrative that with small blocks Bitcoin is not a good solution for consumer payments. This narative did a lot more damage to Bitcoin consumer payments than the actual blocksize limit rule on the network did"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-10T11:31Z 119.6K followers, 16.7K engagements

"@MrHodl The "anti-spam" camp will shortly reluctantly accept that filters indeed do not work at stopping fee paying transactions that people want to make They will continue to hate on Core anyway and they will then begin to say that something else needs to be done to stop spam"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-12T11:41Z 119.5K followers, 1102 engagements

"The below is from a presentation we gave in 2015. We have not seen Mike Hearn's views on this topic expressed so clearly like this for a long time Are Mike Hearn's views on Bitcoin coming back into fashion"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-06T23:11Z 119.5K followers, 4494 engagements

"@Zatoichi42 Freedom is not policy uniformity. I don't think anyone is asking for policy uniformity. This is a misconception"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-15T22:16Z 119.6K followers, 2461 engagements

"@rot13maxi @theinstagibbs And before you try and be all petty with me stamping the bullion bank name mass and purity on the gold is not spam. Those are offcially allowed by the mint If the mint/miner does it its not spam"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T12:49Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Pushing default policy towards consensus in Bitcoin Core is not the same as wanting or expecting mempool uniformity across the network Some people have firewalls that limit things some people don't have a mempool some people tweak the settings some people run Knots some people run BitcoinXT some people run old versions of Core some people run custom patches That is all fine and great. I don't think anyone on the "Core side" wants or expects mempool uniformity"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-16T08:30Z 119.6K followers, XXX engagements

"Bitcoin is money"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-05T09:41Z 119.5K followers, 17.8K engagements

"For our two nodes each with XXX peers XXXX% run Knots This is up a lot since XX June 2025 when we had XXX% Using the bitcoin-seeder which I think by default excludes Tor we get XXX% of nodes as Knots root@Ubuntu /bitcoin-seeder # grep -E 'S+s+1s+' dnsseed.dump grep -c 'Knots' XXX root@Ubuntu /bitcoin-seeder # grep -E 'S+s+1s+' dnsseed.dump grep -c 'Satoshi' 7210"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-05T21:56Z 119.5K followers, 17.8K engagements

"FOUR THOUSAND AND THIRTY POLITICALLY MANAGED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA DOLLARS PER XXXXXXXXXX GRAMS OF AN ELEMENT WITH XX PROTONS IN EACH ATOM"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T11:44Z 119.5K followers, 10.3K engagements

"@BitcoinPierre @ManliusDaVius @Beautyon_ OP_RETURN Is used for the witness commitment Banning OP_Return would freeze around XX% of all Bitcoin"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-11T18:31Z 119.5K followers, 1529 engagements

"A hardfork that applies to historical blocks may not be a big deal. For instance the removal of the checkpoint system was a hardfork For those concerned about CSAM in old OP_Returns. They could have a special node that has a database of old OP_Returns not to download (somehow) and a database of all the hashes so the TXIDs can be computed. I think this would be a hardfork but if deep enough it might not matter to some"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-11T08:49Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"According to Forbes HBO will say that @peterktodd is Satoshi. The Forbes article states that "a 2010 BitcoinTalk post replying to Satoshi Nakamoto that Cullen Hoback believes was accidentally posted using Todd's profile" This is clearly ridiculous It is just an example of @peterktodd replying to Satoshi with a snarky pedantic and accurate comment. Yes an output value will need to be reduced to generate a txn fee. This is the kind of comment Peter could make today. There is zero reason to believe this was Satoshi"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2024-10-08T23:00Z 119.5K followers, 425.5K engagements

"Core talked about the harm of mempool diversity for at least a month before it got caught. "Fee estimation compact blocks propagation etc" You are misunderstanding. Many people want good fee estimation Compact Blocks and pre-validation signature caching on thier own node. This means you may want your mempool to model what miners will mine. This does NOT mean you care if some other people have a different mempool or want to do something else with their mempool"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-16T09:52Z 119.6K followers, XXX engagements

"This view expressed by @boomer_btc is just like the views of Mike Hearn expressed years ago. Both believe that miners will not select transactions to maximise profits in the next block but instead prioritise the long term health of the system This issue was debated endlessly for years with the small blockers finally prevailing and Mike Hearn was then widely believed to have been wrong. Are we really going to have the same debate all over again"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-06T22:50Z 119.6K followers, 66K engagements

"@TTrevethan @defigiveaways @adam3us @callebtc @mikeinspace @darosior Long periods of doing XX% of the volume even on the Veriblock "test" network"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T17:23Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Fighting talk from Gregory Maxwell on the Core v Knots spam debate"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-15T19:38Z 119.6K followers, 413.5K engagements

"@LukeDashjr @BitcoinBombadil @sajlegreat @adam3us Please explain what is nonsense about it"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-04T14:31Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@coinjoined @baclfoo @jonasschnelli Luke explained his methodology in the past Luke crawls for nodes then looks at his own peers. If say XX% of his peers are in his crawl database he multiplies the database by X to get an estimated total number of listening and non listening nodes Get it"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-05T19:09Z 119.5K followers, XX engagements

"@LaurentMT @hugomofn @darosior @giacomozucco I mean tehy want them for themselves but people accsept miners want to make profits"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-14T11:26Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@darosior @OrangeSurfBTC Also massive growth in Runes recently sent the percentage of large OP_Returns crashing down"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-04T14:00Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@Excellion To encourage people not to run Core v30"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-09T19:00Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@coinjoined @cguida6 @adam3us If nobody is a "jerk" on the internet everything will be ok"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-07T11:47Z 119.5K followers, 2127 engagements

"@coinjoined @hhebasto @alanbwt If one thinks it through one may decide it's not worth spending your whole life trying to persuade people to run filters celebrating every percentage gain and it never being enough Choose your battles wisely and fight battles you can win"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-05T09:53Z 119.5K followers, 38.6K engagements

"For those that are interested here is the NASDAQ XXX chart from 1994 to 2003"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-07T11:43Z 119.5K followers, 3068 engagements

"Luke's method is indeed an estimation. It has a very different methodology to everyone else. It is an interesting metric but one needs to understand the difference between what Luke does and what everyone else. There are listening nodes and non-listening nodes. You can crawl the listening nodes and build a database of them (probably what Clark does) You can also can look at your own peers for your own nodes this will have both listening and non-listening nodes. The non-listening nodes are the ones that initiated the connection to you. You can then cross reference the two sets of data looking"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-14T17:59Z 119.6K followers, 5276 engagements

"Ok but I'd add some relevant details to this nice metaphor. The engineer who originally built the airplane (Arthur Burns) disappeared mid-flight parachuting off. Then the second most influential engineer (Greenspan) went rogue and was kicked out of the plane by the others (and the passengers) together with other very important engineers (Volcker). Then two of the original engineers namely the second most prolific ever (Yellen) and one of the most influential (Trump) started disagreeing vocally in front of the passengers about how to manage the plane windows. Then one of the main engineers"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-07T13:48Z 119.5K followers, 7162 engagements

"@BitcoinMooky @adam3us @cguida6 BRC20 minting was a large factor But huge fees were paid"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T18:23Z 119.5K followers, 12.8K engagements

"Assuming we are currently in an AI bubble that will mirror the early 2000s tech bubble where are we in the cycle"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-07T11:42Z 119.5K followers, 4369 engagements

"@LukeDashjr @KeatlyKHZ So you now admit the filters are likely to be ineffective"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-10T18:59Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@rot13maxi @theinstagibbs Yes they are trying to make a quick buck by "adding value" to the gold shameful behaviour The "art" makes it harder to verify the gold and degrades gold as money In the long term pure honest gold as money in bullion form will outperform these decorative objects"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-08T12:45Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Tokenization is another name for securitisation"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-06T11:49Z 119.5K followers, 8862 engagements

"ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SIX THOUSAND POLITICALLY MANAGED UNITED STATES DOLLARS PER DEVELOPERS ARE NOT GOOD AT POLITICS BITCOIN"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-06T18:54Z 119.5K followers, 11.6K engagements

"@stutxo Where does it fit in our diagram"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-10T21:41Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Why would anyone design a shitcoin metaprotocol on top of a nonstandard tx format Doesn't need to be a "shitcoin metaprotocol" large OP_Returns could be used for a number of things. Besides I think the influence of Bitcoin Core standardness rules is broken now. So the "shitcoin metaprotocol" designers or anyone else are less likley to care about it. They may care that it relaibly relays and that some miners are willing to mine it. That already happened with large OP_Returns before Bitcoin Core relented to the reality on the network. Remember large opreturns are still at least X orders of"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-15T17:35Z 119.6K followers, XX engagements

"Bitcoin NFT Market Update - XX Aug 2025 * Of the XX top ranked NFTs by MCap based on March 2025 prices the median floor price has declined by XXXX% in Bitcoin terms * Since each individual NFT's peak price in Bitcoin terms the median price decline is XXXX% * It turns out investing in Bitcoin NFTs such as images of cats and monkeys which many regard as onchain spam might not have been the best long term investment * It looks like the spam may be on the way to being defeated by pure economics rather than technical changes to Bitcoin Core's software or "signals" from the Core development team *"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-08-27T17:33Z 119.5K followers, 31.4K engagements

"@EricBalchunas Probably this: Source:"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-06T11:56Z 119.5K followers, 2775 engagements

"@noderunner9 @JWWeatherman_ If you want to compare gold to something compare it to Bitcoin the protocol or Bitcoin the coin Gold is not really like Bitcoin Core the software project"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-14T18:17Z 119.5K followers, XX engagements

"A tiny minority in Bitcoin have the power to relax an incentive incompatible network relay limit. It doesn't matter what the majority wants. That is just a reality. One can accept that or stick one's head in the sand. The flip side is that a significant minority can enforce an existing consensus rule"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-09T13:40Z 119.5K followers, 3229 engagements

"@LukeDashjr @Zatoichi42 Which part is false"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-14T11:21Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Similiar case of main character syndrome Source:"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-09T12:03Z 119.5K followers, 27K engagements

"You have many options if you want the latest security fixes from Bitcoin Core: X. Run the latest version of Core without a mempool X. Run the latest version of Core changing the defaults related to OP_Return relay X. Run the latest version of Core behind a firewall X. Run Knots that only connects to the latest version of Core on the same machine protecting Knots if you are worried about some security fix X. Do the oppersite of X so Knots does all the relay and Core is your wallet X. Make a patch for the latest version of Core X. Run the latest version of Core with bandwidth limits"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-16T13:54Z 119.6K followers, XX engagements

"@LukeDashjr We discussed this before with you We do not manually enter this not sure how it generates that"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-12T14:10Z 119.5K followers, 1264 engagements

"Sure but the point is that if removing the filter causes more opreturn usage you'd have to be in deep denial to claim that filters don't work. Well not really usage could increase for reasons unrelated to the policy defaults in Bitcoin Core Remember large OP_Returns started to become reliably relayed in early 2025 before Bitcoin Core changed the policy default"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-15T16:04Z 119.6K followers, XX engagements

"but there can be steps taken to mitigate spam and that is what I believe most people in general are seeking Sure. It's just that it's good to carefully think through the implications and strategy before doing something to mitigate the spam Asking others to make their own nodes less effective at Compact Blocks pre-block validation caching & fee estimation is probably not a good way to mitigate spam. If there is serious contention filters are just going to emphatically lose anyway. Probably not smart to incur costs while going down a losing path. There are better ways to fight this battle. You"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-05T19:37Z 119.5K followers, 1434 engagements

"@danoprey It means the Bitcoin price is going up & the USD is going down The USD is managed by political leaders Some people seem to think the Core developers are political leaders/stewards & they are doing a poor job of politics However political money goes down"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-06T20:57Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"Misleading statement unless the same is also said about LibreRelay To be fair I doubt anyone is using LibreRelay as a wallet. It seems to have a very clear and logical objective to loosen incentive incompatible relay policies on the network. To help fight mining centralisation. It seems to be effective in that objective and this objective seems very aligned to the reality of how the network operates For Knots on the other hand the objective is somewhat confused. The filters are largely ineffective. Some people seem to think running a node that doesn't relay some spam somehow has an impact in"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-12T22:43Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@CaminaDrummer4 @giacomozucco or has become a communist Which part is communist The "Bitcoin is secured by self interest" part 🤣"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-15T21:22Z 119.6K followers, 1043 engagements

"Tethers bitcoin reserves are not really an important part of USDT"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-11T16:55Z 119.5K followers, XXX engagements

"@NickSzabo4 @kyletorpey so security programmers should never talk about attacks Not saying that at all. Just saying it seems like it's working like that. Absolutely not saying its a legitimate or appropriate reason not to talk about something"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-14T18:02Z 119.6K followers, XXX engagements

"OP_Return2 - Overview With intense debates over the default OP_Return relay limit continuing some have suggested OP_Return2 as a potential solution. We have summarised our understanding of OP_Return2 below. OP_Return2 is a new proposed transaction output that contains a hash commitment to up to 8MB of arbitrary data but the arbitrary data itself is not required by nodes to check if a block is valid. Therefore full nodes and miners do not need to validate propagate or store the extra data. Miners would just ignore the arbitrary data and therefore it would not contribute to mining"
X Link @BitMEXResearch 2025-10-09T23:05Z 119.6K followers, 46.6K engagements