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# ![@Arthur_van_Pelt Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1000048703443435521.png) @Arthur_van_Pelt Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡

Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ posts on X about bitcoin, blockchain, money, transactions the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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**Social category influence**
[cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies)  #6788 [finance](/list/finance)  XXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges)  XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks)  XXXX% [countries](/list/countries)  XXXX%

**Social topic influence**
[bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #2332, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain) #2360, [money](/topic/money) 4.1%, [transactions](/topic/transactions) #401, [dropbox](/topic/dropbox) #30, [has been](/topic/has-been) 2.05%, [ordinals](/topic/ordinals) #252, [filters](/topic/filters) 1.54%, [ethereum](/topic/ethereum) 1.03%, [mindset](/topic/mindset) XXXX%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
[@baclfoo](/creator/undefined) [@adam3us](/creator/undefined) [@anoncryptoguy2](/creator/undefined) [@nickszabo4](/creator/undefined) [@hashballs23](/creator/undefined) [@davidsfreeman](/creator/undefined) [@wallstreetmoon](/creator/undefined) [@satflation](/creator/undefined) [@taipancapital](/creator/undefined) [@bitmexresearch](/creator/undefined) [@jabulanijakes](/creator/undefined) [@bitcoinesve](/creator/undefined) [@lukedashjr](/creator/undefined) [@tonevays](/creator/undefined) [@excellion](/creator/undefined) [@simulxxx](/creator/undefined) [@aeonbtc](/creator/undefined) [@zamir591582](/creator/undefined) [@_davidsfreeman](/creator/undefined) [@mrhodl](/creator/undefined)

**Top assets mentioned**
[Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase)
### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/posts)
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Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours

""Whether or not you want the law the law wants you -- to follow it." - @NickSzabo4 And also: "Reputation comes on foot and leaves on horseback" - Dutch proverb That's why we should reject all additional arbitrary data. Because Bitcoin is remember. drum roll. immutable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980365775996412251) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T20:09Z 8057 followers, 11.7K engagements


"@HashBalls23 @NickSzabo4 Satoshi made Bitcoin to be an Electronic Cash System not a data spam Dropbox. He was firmly against additional arbitrary data. It's that simple. Bitcoin is only for native financial transactions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980519344741204109) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T06:19Z 8057 followers, 8836 engagements


""Filters are not effective at stopping transactions people want to make." Stop lying. They are not perfect but they are very effective. It has a reason that many Bitcoiners are attacking us filterboys for running filters. If these filters were not effective you would ignore us"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980129443080499549) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T04:30Z 8054 followers, 1907 engagements


"Don't tell me. Yes I'm telling you that the latest Bitcoin Knots version released a day after Bitcoin Core v30 is currently the most popular upgrade. #RunningKnots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980202618074079626) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T09:21Z 8054 followers, 5453 engagements


"Adam Back Nick Szabo Samson Mow. The Bitcoin data spam debates in a nutshell"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979749317704663234) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T03:19Z 8052 followers, 35.2K engagements


"@brentkearney Bitcoin Knots ramped up in August this year. We saw an immediate drop of over XX% of Runes & Ordinals going into the Bitcoin blockchain. Is it related I think so. Transactions provably got stuck and disappeared from the mempool after mempoolexpiry timeframe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980134373719437526) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T04:49Z 8051 followers, XXX engagements


"@brentkearney At all times we luckily see less abuse and that's a good thing. All efforts social and technical help to stop contaminating the blockchain. That has nothing to do with "wishful thinking". That has to do with fighting data spam with all means possible"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980138066586263618) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T05:04Z 8050 followers, XX engagements


"bitcoin is not a data spam storage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980152935301439625) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:03Z 8051 followers, 1035 engagements


"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Shitcoin ETH isn't decentralized at all. PoS is centralized governance is fully centralized development is fully centralized. And Bitcoin Core is as you can see in the debates and people who voluntarily choose Core v30 *or not* is not changing anything"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980157853999501691) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:23Z 8050 followers, XX engagements


"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No for the last X years the world is figuring out that ETH is a shitcoin. World computer Dump. Sound money Dump. Merge Dump. ETFs Dump. Nothing stops the demise of ETH. Because ETH is at best a worthless utility token used for rug pulls running into the billions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980164447810506926) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:49Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


""data that I want" You seriously don't want "data" from spammers that attack Bitcoin and you don't want to help them abuse the Bitcoin blockchain by trying to store non-native Bitcoin transactions and help them to change Bitcoin into a data spam Dropbox. Or do you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980200007329571007) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T09:10Z 8051 followers, 1427 engagements


"@baclfoo And you still cannot explain how Ordinals and Runes dropped another XX% in August this year and stayed there when Bitcoin Knots came up. You also cannot explain why there are known instances of stuck transactions that disappear after the mempoolexpiry timeframe"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980214671023219176) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T10:09Z 8051 followers, XX engagements


""Bitcoin's p2p relay network is not bitcoin." They're not sending their best into the arena do they 😂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980215937841443225) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T10:14Z 8051 followers, XXX engagements


"@Anthony_Danger @w_s_bitcoin @WesterWolfgang lol dude. There are several people mentioned in the Bitcoin whitepaper. Are they all Bitcoin OGs because they are. mentioned in the Bitcoin whitepaper No of course not. I would love to give Adam Back all kinds of Bitcoin laureates but OG is *not* one of them I'm afraid"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980304609903354330) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T16:06Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays Dude please you're not that dumb. We're talking about *HOSTING AND SPREADING*. PirateBay was raided because they HOSTED AND SPREADED copyrighted material. Everyone HOSTING AND SPREADING CSAM is liable"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980518266687877361) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T06:15Z 8051 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays "Classified" material bothers hardly anyone. It is my firm opinion though that when it comes to CSAM data not only nodes but also parents courts and law enforcement will go join forces to have it deleted to avoid hosting and spreading of it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980529804328775773) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:01Z 8050 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays I see it the other way round. Bitcoin is money not data spam storage. Satoshi agrees. So we should work towards rejecting all unnecesary and additional arbitrary data in the blockchain. Automatically that also avoids issues with copyrighted and other illegal data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980530829601493030) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:05Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays Yes that is my point exactly: a malicious attacker will try to get it his way and that's why we should NEVER surrender to the idea that we can't do anything about it because "muh censorship" and whatever excuses there are"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980532447210271058) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:11Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays All these things are not a reason to not try to avoid and reject data spam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980532705189326861) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:12Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays Satoshi his arguments about "doesn't scale networks need to have separate fates keep the chain small for users and small devices" still stand strong and remain worthwhile mentioning"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980533261831983585) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:15Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


"@HashBalls23 @baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 Indeed. And that building included ferociously hunting for and taking down places that are hosting CSAM. And that's the whole point: we should not be naive thinking that Bitcoin will escape that if it wants to mingle in with what has been build"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980556934282449291) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T08:49Z 8051 followers, XX engagements


"@HashBalls23 @baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 I would summarize that as follows: I accept that a person can use Bitcoin for any type of payment but I do not accept that Bitcoin is abused as a data storage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980557969201967144) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T08:53Z 8051 followers, XX engagements


"@HashBalls23 @baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 Yes I firmly defend that all people can make any financial transaction. Bitcoin is and should remain blind for the content of the transaction just as a dollar bill is not aware if it's used for a coffee or a heroin transaction"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980581840080740680) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T10:28Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


"@HashBalls23 @baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 And Bitcoin is not supposed to be the Ethereum killer Ethereum is well suited (and in the process) to kill itself. Satoshi said "networks need to have separate fates". All things Ethereum can and will be build *on Bitcoin* not *in Bitcoin*. See the difference"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980582325349228631) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T10:29Z 8051 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @HashBalls23 @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 Yes I do actually know that because I'm using Lightning Network as an example. They have well defined how the anchor with Bitcoin works and they kept all arbitrary data off-chain too. Well done"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980583482897399815) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T10:34Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@SnarkyAlien @wk057 @adam3us @cguida @jimmysong @Exellion @GrassFedBitcoin @LukeDashjr @ToneVays No he isn't. OP_RETURN was introduced as a control flow operator in 2009 when Bitcoin went live. OP_RETURN was never intended to store any arbitrary data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980695871693177187) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T18:01Z 8052 followers, XX engagements


"This is another way of saying: Bitcoin Core's mindset is counterproductive counterintuitive and basically completely wrong. The cold hard merciless focus should be: Bitcoin is money so less not more additional arbitrary data should be allowed in the Bitcoin blockchain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980975478199484737) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T12:32Z 8057 followers, XXX engagements


"@aeonBTC At this stage the signal "fight data spam not apologize for it" is important. People like you and your (diminishing) ilk will hopefully understand someday that Bitcoin is money not a data spam Dropbox"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981193135263773093) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T02:57Z 8057 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe Again complete nonsense. You have no idea how Bitcoin works. Simply no idea. Please go read Andreas Antonopoulos - Mastering Bitcoin the section about mining nodes full nodes and "Emerging Consensus". And stop spreading that incompetent nonsense please"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980497671027847403) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T04:53Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@HashBalls23 @NickSzabo4 What you don't seem to understand: this is not a technical war against data spam alone. To address data spam we need the right mindset of users miners nodes and developers. #RunningKnots is therefore both a social signal and a technical signal at once"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980501308882006194) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T05:08Z 8054 followers, XXX engagements


"@aeonBTC Running a node is most certainly *signal*. And that signal is becoming louder and will long term hopefully also lead to filters and fixes now being implemented on individual node level will be upgraded to consensus rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981198891161964704) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T03:19Z 8057 followers, XX engagements


"Bon appetit. I'm not going to join you as usual. I'm going to 🤭 for weeks and months to come about the awfully low numbers of Bitcoin Core v30 node runners and the slow but steady march onwards of Bitcoin Knots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1976504437389877665) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-10T04:25Z 8054 followers, XXX engagements


"@adam3us that spark again to start pressing for data spam rejection socially and technically instead of data spam apologizing. Because seriously most agree that Bitcoin is money not a data spam Dropbox. Then we should join forces again and fight data spam I think"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979833138772873666) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T08:52Z 8054 followers, XXX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe Bitcoin doesn't care. There's no Bitcoin code checking that when it comes to mempool policy and creating the longest chain (accepting verifying and relaying transactions and - blocks)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980464978189775278) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T02:43Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@HashBalls23 @NickSzabo4 "i can't reject additional arbitrary data" I'm #RunningKnots and I can"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980465782275600490) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T02:46Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe No miners create blocks. Nodes verify those blocks after the miners send them to all nodes. After verification these blocks are added to the longest chain and relayed (or not). Miners have no influence on this process except for staying in lockstep with the nodes otherwise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980477971610902584) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T03:35Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe they lose their block subsidy and mining fees. It are the nodes who determine and create majority consensus for the longest chain not the miners. The miners only service the network with blocks that's all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980478454824071536) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T03:37Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe I look forward to you finally understanding Bitcoin and especially understanding that nodes - not miners -determine majority consensus according the X CPU is X vote principle. Miners create blocks nodes verify approve and relay blocks (or not). Learn Draco learn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980508041406493092) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T05:34Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe And talking about forks: it will be the data spammers who need to fork as they are the abusers of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Knots is just one of several tools to kick them out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980508440943583627) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T05:36Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe Yes there's literally X steps and you can't be bothered to *understand* them. Where Satoshi says blocks are sent to ALL NODES he means ALL NODES. That includes full nodes (what you called home nodes). That step in the process has always been there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980512932145361167) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T05:54Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe There has never been a check in the Bitcoin code that excludes full (non-mining) nodes from receiving verifying approving and relaying blocks from miners. A node hosts a blockchain that's all. It can be mining but that's optional"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980514220539089129) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T05:59Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe You didn't mention exchangeS you only mentioned X exchange (Binance) who once suggested something that they immediately realized makes no sense because. it takes all full nodes to make a change"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980519990894936326) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T06:22Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @HashBalls23 What do you consider "arbitrary" in scripting Satoshi created Script to be deliberately constrained to ensure security and predictability and he was actually avoiding arbitrary or general-purpose computation possibilities. For example Bitcoin Script is not Turing Complete"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980524462509322677) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T06:40Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays No there is currently no illegal material in Bitcoin. There's a disputed image that has bothered no one so far and there are 100s of links to (now defunct) CSAM storage. None of this is illegal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980527757550583939) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T06:53Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @HashBalls23 That would not be a native Bitcoin financial transaction and should thus be avoided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980542866251186562) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:53Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @HashBalls23 That would not be a native Bitcoin financial transaction and should thus be avoided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980543261786992781) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:54Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@_colourorange @baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @HashBalls23 It's about being small yes and about being related to a Bitcoin native financial transaction type (at that point in time it was apparently only the "third" transaction type)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980548600573874338) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T08:15Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@THBitcoinBuddha vibe* Nick Szabo his Bitcoin stances remain top notch meanwhile though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980887936510955652) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T06:44Z 8053 followers, XX engagements


"@adam3us @brentkearney That's also possible of course. Both the Ordinals and Runes communicates feel encouraged now though with the OP_RETURN change to revive their spam efforts. Let's see if we can find that back - or not - in the numbers in the upcoming months"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980889932358156537) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T06:52Z 8053 followers, XXX engagements


"@adam3us @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco This whole exercise has been a risk assessment for me anyway. I see less to no risk in filters harming scaling decentralization & censorship resistance while I see way more risks in Bitcoin changing into a data storage platform and people apologizing for it too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979830036124651684) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T08:40Z 8054 followers, XXX engagements


"The weirdest flex in the Spam Wars I've seen so far. Instead of sending the Ordinals Runes Stamps etc spammers to Ethereum where they belong now the filterboys like me who are defending Bitcoin as money-only platform have to move there Weird lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980143274884043049) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T05:25Z 8056 followers, 2232 engagements


""Clearly Bitcoin isn't immutable. Its blockchain is not." 🤦♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980476865434599696) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T03:30Z 8054 followers, XXX engagements


"@BitcoinEsVe My Raspberry Pi node hosts a full blockchain. It receives blocks from miners and verifies them. When I and my fellow nodes reject a mined block the miner of it is fucked because he forked off. This is not rocket science Draco"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980515929281950120) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T06:06Z 8057 followers, XX engagements


"@taipancapital @14g23h34 @adam3us @nilskp @LukeDashjr @BitMEXResearch @Excellion @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @satflation @jabulanijakes @ToneVays We certainly disagree and very firmly even. Because literally no one is censoring native Bitcoin financial transactions. We are filtering contamination and that has NOTHING to do whatsoever with censorship. That's just a lame excuse to avoid addressing data spam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980533859528896722) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T07:17Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @HashBalls23 @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 It's not difficult. A native Bitcoin financial transaction doesn't need arbitrary data because it is simply a Bitcoin transaction from user A to user B. Everything else is spam unless proven otherwise. Miners using the Coinbase text field is pretty well defined also"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980555522160959715) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T08:43Z 8054 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @wk057 @Du_Bi_Bo @adam3us @mpenagar @cguida @jimmysong @Exellion @GrassFedBitcoin @LukeDashjr @ToneVays Teaching people like you that arbitrary data doesn't belong in Bitcoin and that it's also a good idea to filter before arbitrary data enters the blockchain is part of the mission. Unfortunately there are a few people like you who apologize for data spam instead of fight it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980858405393953111) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T04:47Z 8057 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @wk057 @Du_Bi_Bo @adam3us @mpenagar @cguida @jimmysong @Exellion @GrassFedBitcoin @LukeDashjr @ToneVays What you don't seem to grasp is that running filters is *also* part of consensus. It's running software with adjustable settings just like running protocol rules with adjustable settings. When there would be majority consensus for filters there would have been less data spam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980886839851446475) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T06:40Z 8058 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @GrassFedBitcoin "consensus is not decided by nodes""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980891773044949466) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T06:59Z 8055 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @VaasCrypto @NickSzabo4 If so I wouldn't share these sentiments (because I love India) but I don't share many sentiments outside Bitcoin with Luke Dashjr and many other Bitcoiners also so I'm totally fine with it lol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981023197588795804) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T15:41Z 8057 followers, XX engagements


"@mpenagar @baclfoo @wk057 @Du_Bi_Bo @adam3us @cguida @jimmysong @Exellion @GrassFedBitcoin @LukeDashjr @ToneVays It's literally in the Bitcoin whitepaper. It refers to voting for the longest chain to maintain: miners vote for the chain to create blocks for all nodes then vote for the chain to add the block to. PoW is a X step process: creating & verifying. Both steps involve voting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981239587533181102) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T06:01Z 8058 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @wk057 @Du_Bi_Bo @adam3us @mpenagar @cguida @jimmysong @Exellion @GrassFedBitcoin @LukeDashjr @ToneVays "it's how nodes stay in agreement ie consensus" Exactly. And that staying in agreement is happening with compatible software with rules and filters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980888995791069489) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T06:48Z 8058 followers, XX engagements


"Bad take by @notgrubles. PirateBay has been taken down several times over the years in 2014 even so hard that the founders (who all have been doing jailtime) thought they wouldn't come back. Bitcoin will not be Reserve Currency with such legacy and reputation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981003931863097520) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-22T14:25Z 8057 followers, XXX engagements


"@thebitcoinroll @SameeLiaei @frankcorva Show us the receipts please that show that before Bitcoin Core v30 arbitrary data possibilities were added to Bitcoin for the *only* sake of non-native Bitcoin financial transactions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981179178809774448) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T02:01Z 8058 followers, XX engagements


"That's totally okay. It's a free world. In a free world it's free to make stupid choices and face the consequences. The consequence of your choice is that you approve and promote data spam in Bitcoin and help to spread that contamination"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981191529906786745) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T02:50Z 8057 followers, 2735 engagements


"@gm7t2 I support Bitcoin being money and its blockchain was developed to store native Bitcoin financial transactions while Satoshi was firmly against additional arbitrary data for several reasons that are still valid in my opinion. So yes I'm #RunningKnots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981194094870143418) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T03:00Z 8057 followers, XX engagements


"What some data spam apologists don't seem to realize is that they are constantly doing CSWs: Craig Wright his failed and basically dead BSV affinity scam is accepting tons of data spam it contains CSAM already and the Knotzis are basically asking "is that what you want dude""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981197509419471266) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T03:14Z 8057 followers, XXX engagements


"@baclfoo Yes and the sentence after that explains what Satoshi implemented instead because of this reason. Don't tell me this is the first time you're reading the Bitcoin whitepaper is it 🤦♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981301525952503865) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T10:07Z 8057 followers, X engagements


"@baclfoo "what does that mean" It means that you've helped the Bitcoin network with another 100000 nodes to be more secure faster & you gave 100000 more reasons to the miners to not go rogue. Especially when your nodes are related to exchanges payment processors and data services"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1981316102928867580) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-23T11:05Z 8058 followers, XX engagements