[GUEST ACCESS MODE: Data is scrambled or limited to provide examples. Make requests using your API key to unlock full data. Check https://lunarcrush.ai/auth for authentication information.] #  @Arthur_van_Pelt Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ posts on X about bitcoin, blockchain, money, ordinals the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours. ### Engagements: XXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/interactions)  - X Week XXXXXXX +19% - X Month XXXXXXX +59% - X Months XXXXXXX +52% - X Year XXXXXXX -XX% ### Mentions: XX [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/posts_active)  - X Week XXX +32% - X Month XXX +259% - X Months XXXXX +38% - X Year XXXXX -XX% ### Followers: XXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/followers)  - X Week XXXXX +0.06% - X Month XXXXX +0.34% - X Months XXXXX +1.50% - X Year XXXXX +3% ### CreatorRank: XXXXXXX [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/influencer_rank)  ### Social Influence [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/influence) --- **Social category influence** [cryptocurrencies](/list/cryptocurrencies) #3422 [finance](/list/finance) XXXXX% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) XXXX% [exchanges](/list/exchanges) XXXX% [automotive brands](/list/automotive-brands) XXXX% [stocks](/list/stocks) XXXX% **Social topic influence** [bitcoin](/topic/bitcoin) #1296, [blockchain](/topic/blockchain) #1937, [money](/topic/money) 5.38%, [ordinals](/topic/ordinals) #184, [shitcoin](/topic/shitcoin) #7, [ethereum](/topic/ethereum) #5026, [satoshi](/topic/satoshi) 3.76%, [has been](/topic/has-been) 3.23%, [instead of](/topic/instead-of) 3.23%, [dropbox](/topic/dropbox) #3 **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) [@excellion](/creator/undefined) [@simulxxx](/creator/undefined) [@tonevays](/creator/undefined) [@zamir591582](/creator/undefined) [@_davidsfreeman](/creator/undefined) [@mrhodl](/creator/undefined) [@14g23h34](/creator/undefined) **Top assets mentioned** [Bitcoin (BTC)](/topic/bitcoin) [Ethereum (ETH)](/topic/ethereum) [Kaspa (KAS)](/topic/kaspa) [Paycoin (PCI)](/topic/paycoin) [Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)](/topic/coinbase) ### Top Social Posts [#](/creator/twitter::1000048703443435521/posts) --- Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours "@aeonBTC @petrijaervinen @NickSzabo4 The point is also that there is literally nothing you can do about how people use their mempool filters (on a signal trajectory to create or finetune consensus rules) to help protect precious Bitcoin blockspace against disgusting contamination" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980133151742836782) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T04:45Z 8050 followers, XX engagements ""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 8050 followers, 11.6K 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 8052 followers, XXX 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 8052 followers, XX engagements "Bitcoin Core v30 is out. And here we go. Gives a little perspective to why @LukeDashjr and @GrassFedBitcoin said that Bitcoin dies today. #RunningKnots" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1976878610423464302) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-11T05:12Z 8048 followers, 10.9K engagements "@Themooseisloos5 @alostbitcoin @dotkrueger @realvijayk @bunzydotkas @simogattok And because of that shitcoin Kaspa like 1000s of other little testbeds have no chance whatsoever to be meaningful in any way. I've seen everything from Mastercoin to Paycoin to Omni to Ethereum you name it. Bitcoin rules. And will do that for many decades to come. 2/2" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1977830139137609900) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-13T20:13Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "Let's rephrase the question to Bitcoin Core. Is it your opinion that Satoshi invented Bitcoin to be money only or did he invent Bitcoin to be a generic platform where all use cases that need a "solution to the decentralized chronological oracle problem" can be developed" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979390847259959503) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T03:35Z 8052 followers, 3096 engagements "@csuwildcat The answer is very simple and Satoshi gave several clear directions too. See attached tweet. "networks need to have separate fates" is key here. Bitcoin onchain is a settlement layer. Reserve Currency. Unit of account. Please digest what this means" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979411955044749808) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T04:59Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements "Jameson Lopp is an investor in Citrea. Lopp has been fighting and since he couldn't win anyone over blocking Bitcoin Knots fans. Here Lopp explains why Citrea's success depends in large part on Bitcoin Core's v30 OP_RETURN change" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979420944079659042) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T05:35Z 8050 followers, 10.2K engagements "I'm trying to digest this but the more I think about it the more shocked and disgusted I am. "Let's change Bitcoin into a data spam supportive machinery - against al monetary logic - so my investment in some fucking company will flourish." Slay your heroes. Geezz" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979441730656010706) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T06:57Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements "@baclfoo @MajorianBTC This is not your best day on the internet is it What happened Your girlfriend refused your monthly BJ for the first time Drunk posting Bored and trolling for the sake of making a fool of yourself Please go read the whole post again" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979451796843073904) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T07:37Z 8047 followers, XX engagements "@adam3us Bitcoin Core is struggling with the concept though. Hence not everyone's mindset is the same. Then add people with financial interests in data spam friendly solutions coming from the builders of the reference client. and a toxic war is born" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979473737054355926) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T09:04Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements "Understandably a very sad thread. The graph shows what's left of that shortlived now practically bankrupt hype. They left a legacy of XXX GB extra data aka spam in the Bitcoin blockchain and we should be better prepared for the next wave of data spammers" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979483812380745913) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T09:44Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements "Bitcoin Core v30 is hardly a week or X out and here's the 4th data spammer popping up in my feed. This time they're trying to revive the practically dead Runes environment because of. "a set of upgrades to the Bitcoin L1 infrastructure". Fuck off. Just fuck off. 🖕" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979488572055953627) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T10:03Z 8051 followers, 4088 engagements "Another sad thread. Not sad for the Bitcoiners but for the shitcoiners. Again we need to prepare better so these data spammers will not start thinking about Bitcoin again to put their data spam" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979493830689738962) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T10:24Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements "@baclfoo @satflation Friendly reminder: Satoshi said for a plethora of reasons that no extra arbitrary data should be allowed in the Bitcoin blockchain. Those reasons are still valid as fuck. So there's no "useful" data spam let alone "useful" JPGs. That pipe dream of yours simply doesn't exist" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979498437398999239) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T10:42Z 8047 followers, XX engagements "@peterktodd Sorry Peter there's nothing sociopathic going on there just a few people expressing their opinions about a subject not related to Bitcoin. I am talking about Bitcoin related "arguments" where Bitcoin Core fans are not being friendly to Knots fans like me" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979534602592309340) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T13:06Z 8048 followers, XXX engagements "@baclfoo @satflation Next time when you read me saying "no arbitrary data" please read it as "no additional arbitrary data beyond the few tiny pieces of arbitrary data that I allowed and used myself when I dropped Bitcoin out there". Okay Can you do that you think" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979537694339276940) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T13:18Z 8048 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @satflation That feels like they're allowing to record rape porn videos in front of my tent on the camp site where I stay with my kids. only because "they paid the fees". Do you understand what I mean 2/2" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979540526098436353) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T13:30Z 8048 followers, XX engagements "@peterktodd Last time Peter. This time I'm going to scream at you. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN PEOPLE'S OPINIONS OUTSIDE BITCOIN. I REPEAT: NOT. So please show us Bitcoin related sociopathic comments of anyone that might be interesting enough to discuss against my receipts" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979564795075461492) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T15:06Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements "@simulxxx I also find it very positive that Ordinals and Runes are practically dead yes. But I'm hoping we will reach the point where people will stop bothering to even put this type of spam in the Bitcoin blockchain. Because they know it's technically impossible or otherwise not useful" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979588961380044899) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T16:42Z 8048 followers, XX engagements "@utxoshit "they changed the relay rule to prevent future damage" The only thing you cleared up is that Lopp/Citrea apparently didn't ask for the change but that doesn't change a fucking thing. Bitcoin has become more data spam friendly instead of less" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979640890894475776) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-18T20:09Z 8052 followers, XX engagements "@darosior @coryklippsten "which ultimately ends up hurting its "moneyness" properties" No wrong. This has never happened. It's the other way round: abuse of block space as data storage dilutes and hinders the moneyness properties of Bitcoin and such attack should be defended with all means possible" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979731677711909194) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T02:09Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo That's why we keep promoting filters to be used by everyone. So gossip and rumours have less chance to spread their cancerous message. It's that simple" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979736069211099358) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T02:27Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @Jethroe111 @lopp Now go through his feed again and look for his attacks on Luke Dashjr and/or Knots. Then go check his number of followers and realize what message he is trying to tell them. Is he a "pusher" for Bitcoin Core v30 yes or no" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979744984313274689) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T03:02Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @theothermjordan Again it's *you* who is misinformed and are willingly spreading misinformation. When Bitcoin Core learned about how Citrea was dealing with the subject they decided to "fix" OP_RETURN. That's a fact" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979753730645098702) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T03:37Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @theothermjordan That's what I also said yes "When Bitcoin Core learned about how Citrea was dealing with the subject they decided to "fix" OP_RETURN. That's a fact." Humble pie anyone" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979758090611228678) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T03:54Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @Jethroe111 @lopp That still doesn't make Knots "retarded". When that design choice is becoming an issue it will be fixed. Meanwhile Core v30 is the utterly retarded choice: it allows for more data spam to be associated with Bitcoin instead of less. Completely retarded" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979759393907585503) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T03:59Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @theothermjordan The conspiracy is (probably) that Citrea paid/bribed Core No idea. Fact remains the OP_RETURN fix was made for Citrea. Or said otherwise: if Citrea had not existed there would most likely not have been an OP_RETURN fix in v30" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979765305959403660) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T04:23Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@baclfoo @theothermjordan Why are you ignoring the talks between Citrea development and Bitcoin Core that "horrified" Bitcoin Core and inspired them to fix OP_RETURN That is literally what Lopp is saying. Now go back in time when Citrea was raised and when we first learned about the OP_RETURN change" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979803779102126135) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T06:56Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@_DavidSFreeman The only thing correct is that spam has always been tried and has succeeded here and there. But it's been a sliding scale of allowing it more and more instead of fighting it properly. It's not harmless. It's disturbing native usage. It doesn't scale. It puts nodes & therefore" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979807161388822867) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T07:09Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@_DavidSFreeman Bitcoin at risk on legal decentralization & security level when serious CSAM & copyright issues arise that we luckily have avoided so far. Closing your eyes & calling it harmless is naive" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979808180617273553) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T07:13Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@_DavidSFreeman What happened since 2023 with Ordinals and Runes and that shit is that Bitcoin has grown some XXX GB *extra* and is carrying that spam stain around forever for all nodes to come. Nodes are already complaining that downloading the full blockchain takes up to X month" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979809043746349564) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T07:17Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@adam3us Calmly yes. Hats off for that many should take that attitude as example (including the undersigned). But making sense. let's say I calmly respectfully but firmly disagree with that part" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979823322293842246) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T08:13Z 8051 followers, 2061 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 8050 followers, XXX engagements "@adam3us Well what I'm noticing is that many in the group that I call "data spam apologists" are actually against data spam but have reached a sort of defeatism state where they don't bother too much anymore and defend not the data spam but their defeatism. I hope they find" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979832286595137827) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T08:49Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements "@mhclinics Inscriptions & Runes is blockchain abuse of a project that is called a Electronic Cash System. Hard and cold exclusion of that data spam is essential for Bitcoin becoming Reserve Currency long term. That's why Satoshi said "networks need to have separate fates"" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979836378918871050) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T09:05Z 8051 followers, 1119 engagements "@mhclinics Of course you are a very worthy part of the Bitcoin community you're mining you're running a node. but I'm not supporting your stances about Inscriptions and Runes and that type of garbage. That's all. 🙂" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979839334196052395) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T09:17Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements "@_DavidSFreeman It does matter actually. We're carrying XXX GB in extra garbage data around on a blockchain of total what is it now XXX GB That's only Ordinals & Runes. So at least XX% of the Bitcoin blockchain is garbage" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979840872603902139) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T09:23Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@ArgenTo46 @stephanlivera Satoshi build an Electronic Cash System that supports a few tiny data fields (including that block header still in use) up to 40-120 bytes. All other additional arbitrary data he firmly rejected. Blocksize should therefore remain related to growth in native Bitcoin transactions" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979842542142435382) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T09:30Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@adam3us That might be true but I want to hear them again when an unfriendly hacker or Nation State with resources suddenly pumps Bitcoin full of CSAM either in OP_RETURN (prunable) or elsewhere (not prunable). I will immediately stop running a node when that happens. Many with me" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979843660515848387) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T09:34Z 8051 followers, XXX engagements "@adam3us @BitMEXResearch Sure but this is not 2010 anymore. Satoshi released a Cash System with few tiny data fields up to 40-120 bytes only and he was firmly against additional arbitrary data for reasons that still stand strong. Fast forward now we have OP_RETURN of 1000 times these numbers" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979849445652218312) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T09:57Z 8052 followers, XXX engagements "@adam3us @BitMEXResearch So the risks have grown 1000 times too. What are Blockstream mining farms going to do keep on hosting their pool nodes with few GBs in CSAM spam Instead of apologizing for "it has always been an issue" the mindset should be "let's find a solution". Not redirect to OP_RETURN" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979850513089958282) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T10:02Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements "@BitMEXResearch @adam3us Yes it does that's the whole point. The existing possibilities to spam the blockchain have been *extended* instead of being *limited*. This should not be hard to understand. That's why I already noticed X different parties since v30 was released happily claiming they're going" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979853003827089518) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T10:11Z 8051 followers, XXX engagements "@BitMEXResearch @adam3us to abuse the new possibilities. Ordinals and Runes communities feel encouraged again to try an update. It's horrible to watch" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979853366856761418) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T10:13Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@BitMEXResearch @adam3us It doesn't limit it either now does it If you think that blocksize limit is a robust line (it is) why don't *you* take a firm stance against data spam and promote a blocksize limit yourself" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1979857113561415824) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-19T10:28Z 8049 followers, XXX 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, 1872 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 "@brentkearney Yes agree. This is how we figured out that Bitcoin has also a form of social consensus involving economic nodes in the lead and technical consensus with all nodes being equal according the X CPU is X vote principle" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980145141278253362) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T05:32Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@Gaster_34 @cz_binance @PeterSchiff Bitcoin is owned by over XXX million people already. Keep up. 😘" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980146036468588962) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T05:36Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Ethereum remains a long term shitcoin despite a short term death gasp. Gold has never outperformed Bitcoin and it will never outperform either. If I had bought $XXX in gold and $XXX in Bitcoin on January X 2011 I would have $XXX in gold now and $36000000 in Bitcoin" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980151191008072175) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T05:56Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon And yes Bitcoin is fully decentralized. And that shows. Unlike Ethereum where you sheep are waiting for the next dump sorry dumb I mean update in Bitcoin we try to reach consensus in a decentralized way. That's a feature not a bug" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980151973698773414) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T05:59Z 8051 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 8054 followers, 1032 engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No X times wrong. ETH started trading at $XXXX is now $4000 that's 10526x. BTC started trading at $XXXXX is now $110000 that's 110000000x. You want me to continue" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980156875896184942) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:19Z 8051 followers, XX 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 it's not Bitcoin Core choosing anything. In 2015-2017 it was ultimately a non-Bitcoin Core developer called Shaolinfry whose BIP won the nodes vote for majority consensus. And that's how we got a minority shitcoin fork called Bcash" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980158492754182490) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:25Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon "for as long as Ethereum has existed" Stop lying. I just showed you the numbers. Shitcoin ETH never outperformed Bitcoin. They only outperformed a few other shitcoins. In 2017 ETH was XXXX BTC. This year it tanked below XXXX BTC. Go figure with your shitcoin" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980159209338802589) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:28Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No that's not how it works by design nor by execution of that design. The name Bitcoin sticks with the majority consensus and nodes determine that majority consensus according the X CPU is X vote principle (see Bitcoin whitepaper)" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980160932480237692) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:35Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No I used numbers since 2017. ETH hyped a few times between start and 2017 when it reached XXXX BTC. That was the top. Since then shitcoin ETH tanked to below XXXX BTC a few months ago. You cannot deny that. That's a dump of 88%. Because ETH is a shitcoin" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980162027986604146) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:39Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Miners decide nothing miners only create blocks. They offer these blocks to *all nodes* who verify these blocks and they decide (again X CPU is X vote principle) if the blocks are added to the blockchain or not. You seriously have no idea how Bitcoin works do you" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980162873835065607) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:43Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Of that last decade shitcoin ETH has been tanking XX% in the last X years against Bitcoin. That last decade had X up years X down years. You cannot deny that" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980163525726331263) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:45Z 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 8051 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Since it's inception Bitcoin has waaaaay outperformed ETH and since 2017 till today Bitcoin has waaaaay outperformed ETH. The one cherry picking a few hopium timeframes is you. So you can include the X years that ETH outperformed" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980165340652023871) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T06:53Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Not me @WallStreetMoon did: "Ethereum to experience price up" ETH went up X years down X years after that. And since Bitcoin exists it has tremendously outperformed gold all that's left is a XX bagger to overtake gold lol" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980169353954996406) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:08Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Now show me ETH in BTC denomination since 2017 please" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980170642906648914) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:14Z 8051 followers, XX engagements "@w_s_bitcoin Technically @WesterWolfgang is correct. OGs are people *daily* involved with Bitcoin in the years 2008-2011. Adam joined Bitcoin in 2013. So you're making a non-issue from a non-event. Typical data spam apologist behavior I must say because on content you can't win anymore" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980171992809783568) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:19Z 8049 followers, XXX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon ETH is nowhere near ATHs. ETH its ATH was XXXX BTC in 2017. It tanked XX% since then. What are you even talking about Are you drunk Or delusional" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980173153893830663) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:24Z 8051 followers, X engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Bitcoin is actually a great store of value. That why you see 100s of enterprises etc use it as treasury countries use it as legal tender and did you know that the Bitcoin spot ETFs is by far the most successful ETF of all times" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980174215446950201) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:28Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Sorry but this getting too dumb to even consider responding. If you have no clue what the difference between money and currency (a money derivative where as fiat currencies these days are not even related to money anymore but are debt-based derivatives) then you're so lost" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980177715366891706) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:42Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon And if you cannot even grasp that store of value is by itself a majority consensus feature of commodities and assets in general and that Bitcoin as *programmable money* is for that reason *also* perceived as a store of value then I don't know what to say anymore. Advice: learn" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980179118135427100) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:47Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Sorry but you're so dumb. Unbelievable. By the way gold is *not* outperforming this year. It's doing well but so is Bitcoin" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980179625709097051) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T07:49Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@aeonBTC @petrijaervinen @NickSzabo4 Sigh. Here we go again. For the umpteenth time: Blocking and rejecting native Bitcoin transactions is censorship. That's not what we are doing. We are filtering contamination rejecting data spam attacks that abuse the Bitcoin blockchain as data storage only" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980186059494330617) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T08:15Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Sure. I'll give you that temporary phenomenon with pleasure just like ETH has a little death gasp this year from XXXX BTC to XXXX BTC (but is tanking again already). Now look at Bitcoin's overall performance please" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980186649876177183) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T08:17Z 8050 followers, XX engagements "@aeonBTC @petrijaervinen @NickSzabo4 "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/1980198766264369277) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T09:05Z 8050 followers, XXX 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 8054 followers, 1420 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 8053 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 8054 followers, XX 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 8052 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 8054 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 8054 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 8052 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 8054 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, 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 8054 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 8054 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 8054 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 8054 followers, XX 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 8054 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 8054 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 8052 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 8052 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 8054 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 8054 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 8054 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 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 "@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 8052 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 8054 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 "@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 ""Its not actually about the filters it is about who has control over the default settings of the majority client." Not for me. For me it's about mindset. The mindset of miners devs and users (node runners) should be "Bitcoin is money not a data spam Dropbox"). Mindset" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1976496923516535060) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-10T03:56Z 8051 followers, 2129 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 8050 followers, 2219 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 8052 followers, XXX 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 "@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 "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 8050 followers, 35.2K 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 "@BitMEXResearch @edprospero23 These "millions of Runes" didn't make it into the Bitcoin blockchain though. Can you guess why that is" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980127165673771111) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-20T04:21Z 8052 followers, XXX 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 8050 followers, XXX 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 8050 followers, 5410 engagements "@BitcoinEsVe lol you clearly have no idea how Bitcoin works. When all nodes reject a mined block the miner has forked off and can't sell his block subsidy because the exchange node (one of your "home nodes") doesn't accept the miners block remember Please go study Bitcoin more" [X Link](https://x.com/Arthur_van_Pelt/status/1980489045705912619) [@Arthur_van_Pelt](/creator/x/Arthur_van_Pelt) 2025-10-21T04:19Z 8052 followers, XX 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 8050 followers, 7798 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 8050 followers, X engagements
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Arthur "Filterboy" van Pelt 🔥 ∞/21M ⚡ posts on X about bitcoin, blockchain, money, ordinals the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and XXX posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.
Social category influence cryptocurrencies #3422 finance XXXXX% technology brands XXXX% exchanges XXXX% automotive brands XXXX% stocks XXXX%
Social topic influence bitcoin #1296, blockchain #1937, money 5.38%, ordinals #184, shitcoin #7, ethereum #5026, satoshi 3.76%, has been 3.23%, instead of 3.23%, dropbox #3
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @baclfoo @adam3us @anoncryptoguy2 @nickszabo4 @hashballs23 @davidsfreeman @wallstreetmoon @satflation @taipancapital @bitmexresearch @jabulanijakes @bitcoinesve @lukedashjr @excellion @simulxxx @tonevays @zamir591582 @_davidsfreeman @mrhodl @14g23h34
Top assets mentioned Bitcoin (BTC) Ethereum (ETH) Kaspa (KAS) Paycoin (PCI) Coinbase Global, Inc. (COIN)
Top posts by engagements in the last XX hours
"@aeonBTC @petrijaervinen @NickSzabo4 The point is also that there is literally nothing you can do about how people use their mempool filters (on a signal trajectory to create or finetune consensus rules) to help protect precious Bitcoin blockspace against disgusting contamination"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T04:45Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
""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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T20:09Z 8050 followers, 11.6K 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T08:52Z 8052 followers, XXX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T08:49Z 8052 followers, XX engagements
"Bitcoin Core v30 is out. And here we go. Gives a little perspective to why @LukeDashjr and @GrassFedBitcoin said that Bitcoin dies today. #RunningKnots"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-11T05:12Z 8048 followers, 10.9K engagements
"@Themooseisloos5 @alostbitcoin @dotkrueger @realvijayk @bunzydotkas @simogattok And because of that shitcoin Kaspa like 1000s of other little testbeds have no chance whatsoever to be meaningful in any way. I've seen everything from Mastercoin to Paycoin to Omni to Ethereum you name it. Bitcoin rules. And will do that for many decades to come. 2/2"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-13T20:13Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"Let's rephrase the question to Bitcoin Core. Is it your opinion that Satoshi invented Bitcoin to be money only or did he invent Bitcoin to be a generic platform where all use cases that need a "solution to the decentralized chronological oracle problem" can be developed"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T03:35Z 8052 followers, 3096 engagements
"@csuwildcat The answer is very simple and Satoshi gave several clear directions too. See attached tweet. "networks need to have separate fates" is key here. Bitcoin onchain is a settlement layer. Reserve Currency. Unit of account. Please digest what this means"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T04:59Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements
"Jameson Lopp is an investor in Citrea. Lopp has been fighting and since he couldn't win anyone over blocking Bitcoin Knots fans. Here Lopp explains why Citrea's success depends in large part on Bitcoin Core's v30 OP_RETURN change"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T05:35Z 8050 followers, 10.2K engagements
"I'm trying to digest this but the more I think about it the more shocked and disgusted I am. "Let's change Bitcoin into a data spam supportive machinery - against al monetary logic - so my investment in some fucking company will flourish." Slay your heroes. Geezz"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T06:57Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements
"@baclfoo @MajorianBTC This is not your best day on the internet is it What happened Your girlfriend refused your monthly BJ for the first time Drunk posting Bored and trolling for the sake of making a fool of yourself Please go read the whole post again"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T07:37Z 8047 followers, XX engagements
"@adam3us Bitcoin Core is struggling with the concept though. Hence not everyone's mindset is the same. Then add people with financial interests in data spam friendly solutions coming from the builders of the reference client. and a toxic war is born"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T09:04Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements
"Understandably a very sad thread. The graph shows what's left of that shortlived now practically bankrupt hype. They left a legacy of XXX GB extra data aka spam in the Bitcoin blockchain and we should be better prepared for the next wave of data spammers"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T09:44Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements
"Bitcoin Core v30 is hardly a week or X out and here's the 4th data spammer popping up in my feed. This time they're trying to revive the practically dead Runes environment because of. "a set of upgrades to the Bitcoin L1 infrastructure". Fuck off. Just fuck off. 🖕"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T10:03Z 8051 followers, 4088 engagements
"Another sad thread. Not sad for the Bitcoiners but for the shitcoiners. Again we need to prepare better so these data spammers will not start thinking about Bitcoin again to put their data spam"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T10:24Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements
"@baclfoo @satflation Friendly reminder: Satoshi said for a plethora of reasons that no extra arbitrary data should be allowed in the Bitcoin blockchain. Those reasons are still valid as fuck. So there's no "useful" data spam let alone "useful" JPGs. That pipe dream of yours simply doesn't exist"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T10:42Z 8047 followers, XX engagements
"@peterktodd Sorry Peter there's nothing sociopathic going on there just a few people expressing their opinions about a subject not related to Bitcoin. I am talking about Bitcoin related "arguments" where Bitcoin Core fans are not being friendly to Knots fans like me"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T13:06Z 8048 followers, XXX engagements
"@baclfoo @satflation Next time when you read me saying "no arbitrary data" please read it as "no additional arbitrary data beyond the few tiny pieces of arbitrary data that I allowed and used myself when I dropped Bitcoin out there". Okay Can you do that you think"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T13:18Z 8048 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @satflation That feels like they're allowing to record rape porn videos in front of my tent on the camp site where I stay with my kids. only because "they paid the fees". Do you understand what I mean 2/2"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T13:30Z 8048 followers, XX engagements
"@peterktodd Last time Peter. This time I'm going to scream at you. I'M NOT INTERESTED IN PEOPLE'S OPINIONS OUTSIDE BITCOIN. I REPEAT: NOT. So please show us Bitcoin related sociopathic comments of anyone that might be interesting enough to discuss against my receipts"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T15:06Z 8047 followers, XXX engagements
"@simulxxx I also find it very positive that Ordinals and Runes are practically dead yes. But I'm hoping we will reach the point where people will stop bothering to even put this type of spam in the Bitcoin blockchain. Because they know it's technically impossible or otherwise not useful"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T16:42Z 8048 followers, XX engagements
"@utxoshit "they changed the relay rule to prevent future damage" The only thing you cleared up is that Lopp/Citrea apparently didn't ask for the change but that doesn't change a fucking thing. Bitcoin has become more data spam friendly instead of less"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-18T20:09Z 8052 followers, XX engagements
"@darosior @coryklippsten "which ultimately ends up hurting its "moneyness" properties" No wrong. This has never happened. It's the other way round: abuse of block space as data storage dilutes and hinders the moneyness properties of Bitcoin and such attack should be defended with all means possible"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T02:09Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo That's why we keep promoting filters to be used by everyone. So gossip and rumours have less chance to spread their cancerous message. It's that simple"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T02:27Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @Jethroe111 @lopp Now go through his feed again and look for his attacks on Luke Dashjr and/or Knots. Then go check his number of followers and realize what message he is trying to tell them. Is he a "pusher" for Bitcoin Core v30 yes or no"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T03:02Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @theothermjordan Again it's you who is misinformed and are willingly spreading misinformation. When Bitcoin Core learned about how Citrea was dealing with the subject they decided to "fix" OP_RETURN. That's a fact"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T03:37Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @theothermjordan That's what I also said yes "When Bitcoin Core learned about how Citrea was dealing with the subject they decided to "fix" OP_RETURN. That's a fact." Humble pie anyone"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T03:54Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @Jethroe111 @lopp That still doesn't make Knots "retarded". When that design choice is becoming an issue it will be fixed. Meanwhile Core v30 is the utterly retarded choice: it allows for more data spam to be associated with Bitcoin instead of less. Completely retarded"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T03:59Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @theothermjordan The conspiracy is (probably) that Citrea paid/bribed Core No idea. Fact remains the OP_RETURN fix was made for Citrea. Or said otherwise: if Citrea had not existed there would most likely not have been an OP_RETURN fix in v30"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T04:23Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @theothermjordan Why are you ignoring the talks between Citrea development and Bitcoin Core that "horrified" Bitcoin Core and inspired them to fix OP_RETURN That is literally what Lopp is saying. Now go back in time when Citrea was raised and when we first learned about the OP_RETURN change"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T06:56Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@_DavidSFreeman The only thing correct is that spam has always been tried and has succeeded here and there. But it's been a sliding scale of allowing it more and more instead of fighting it properly. It's not harmless. It's disturbing native usage. It doesn't scale. It puts nodes & therefore"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T07:09Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@_DavidSFreeman Bitcoin at risk on legal decentralization & security level when serious CSAM & copyright issues arise that we luckily have avoided so far. Closing your eyes & calling it harmless is naive"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T07:13Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@_DavidSFreeman What happened since 2023 with Ordinals and Runes and that shit is that Bitcoin has grown some XXX GB extra and is carrying that spam stain around forever for all nodes to come. Nodes are already complaining that downloading the full blockchain takes up to X month"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T07:17Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@adam3us Calmly yes. Hats off for that many should take that attitude as example (including the undersigned). But making sense. let's say I calmly respectfully but firmly disagree with that part"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T08:13Z 8051 followers, 2061 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T08:40Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements
"@adam3us Well what I'm noticing is that many in the group that I call "data spam apologists" are actually against data spam but have reached a sort of defeatism state where they don't bother too much anymore and defend not the data spam but their defeatism. I hope they find"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T08:49Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements
"@mhclinics Inscriptions & Runes is blockchain abuse of a project that is called a Electronic Cash System. Hard and cold exclusion of that data spam is essential for Bitcoin becoming Reserve Currency long term. That's why Satoshi said "networks need to have separate fates""
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T09:05Z 8051 followers, 1119 engagements
"@mhclinics Of course you are a very worthy part of the Bitcoin community you're mining you're running a node. but I'm not supporting your stances about Inscriptions and Runes and that type of garbage. That's all. 🙂"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T09:17Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements
"@_DavidSFreeman It does matter actually. We're carrying XXX GB in extra garbage data around on a blockchain of total what is it now XXX GB That's only Ordinals & Runes. So at least XX% of the Bitcoin blockchain is garbage"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T09:23Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@ArgenTo46 @stephanlivera Satoshi build an Electronic Cash System that supports a few tiny data fields (including that block header still in use) up to 40-120 bytes. All other additional arbitrary data he firmly rejected. Blocksize should therefore remain related to growth in native Bitcoin transactions"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T09:30Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@adam3us That might be true but I want to hear them again when an unfriendly hacker or Nation State with resources suddenly pumps Bitcoin full of CSAM either in OP_RETURN (prunable) or elsewhere (not prunable). I will immediately stop running a node when that happens. Many with me"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T09:34Z 8051 followers, XXX engagements
"@adam3us @BitMEXResearch Sure but this is not 2010 anymore. Satoshi released a Cash System with few tiny data fields up to 40-120 bytes only and he was firmly against additional arbitrary data for reasons that still stand strong. Fast forward now we have OP_RETURN of 1000 times these numbers"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T09:57Z 8052 followers, XXX engagements
"@adam3us @BitMEXResearch So the risks have grown 1000 times too. What are Blockstream mining farms going to do keep on hosting their pool nodes with few GBs in CSAM spam Instead of apologizing for "it has always been an issue" the mindset should be "let's find a solution". Not redirect to OP_RETURN"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T10:02Z 8050 followers, XXX engagements
"@BitMEXResearch @adam3us Yes it does that's the whole point. The existing possibilities to spam the blockchain have been extended instead of being limited. This should not be hard to understand. That's why I already noticed X different parties since v30 was released happily claiming they're going"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T10:11Z 8051 followers, XXX engagements
"@BitMEXResearch @adam3us to abuse the new possibilities. Ordinals and Runes communities feel encouraged again to try an update. It's horrible to watch"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T10:13Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@BitMEXResearch @adam3us It doesn't limit it either now does it If you think that blocksize limit is a robust line (it is) why don't you take a firm stance against data spam and promote a blocksize limit yourself"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T10:28Z 8049 followers, XXX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T04:30Z 8054 followers, 1872 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T05:04Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@brentkearney Yes agree. This is how we figured out that Bitcoin has also a form of social consensus involving economic nodes in the lead and technical consensus with all nodes being equal according the X CPU is X vote principle"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T05:32Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@Gaster_34 @cz_binance @PeterSchiff Bitcoin is owned by over XXX million people already. Keep up. 😘"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T05:36Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Ethereum remains a long term shitcoin despite a short term death gasp. Gold has never outperformed Bitcoin and it will never outperform either. If I had bought $XXX in gold and $XXX in Bitcoin on January X 2011 I would have $XXX in gold now and $36000000 in Bitcoin"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T05:56Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon And yes Bitcoin is fully decentralized. And that shows. Unlike Ethereum where you sheep are waiting for the next dump sorry dumb I mean update in Bitcoin we try to reach consensus in a decentralized way. That's a feature not a bug"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T05:59Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"bitcoin is not a data spam storage"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:03Z 8054 followers, 1032 engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No X times wrong. ETH started trading at $XXXX is now $4000 that's 10526x. BTC started trading at $XXXXX is now $110000 that's 110000000x. You want me to continue"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:19Z 8051 followers, XX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:23Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No it's not Bitcoin Core choosing anything. In 2015-2017 it was ultimately a non-Bitcoin Core developer called Shaolinfry whose BIP won the nodes vote for majority consensus. And that's how we got a minority shitcoin fork called Bcash"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:25Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon "for as long as Ethereum has existed" Stop lying. I just showed you the numbers. Shitcoin ETH never outperformed Bitcoin. They only outperformed a few other shitcoins. In 2017 ETH was XXXX BTC. This year it tanked below XXXX BTC. Go figure with your shitcoin"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:28Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No that's not how it works by design nor by execution of that design. The name Bitcoin sticks with the majority consensus and nodes determine that majority consensus according the X CPU is X vote principle (see Bitcoin whitepaper)"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:35Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon No I used numbers since 2017. ETH hyped a few times between start and 2017 when it reached XXXX BTC. That was the top. Since then shitcoin ETH tanked to below XXXX BTC a few months ago. You cannot deny that. That's a dump of 88%. Because ETH is a shitcoin"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:39Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Miners decide nothing miners only create blocks. They offer these blocks to all nodes who verify these blocks and they decide (again X CPU is X vote principle) if the blocks are added to the blockchain or not. You seriously have no idea how Bitcoin works do you"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:43Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Of that last decade shitcoin ETH has been tanking XX% in the last X years against Bitcoin. That last decade had X up years X down years. You cannot deny that"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:45Z 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:49Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Since it's inception Bitcoin has waaaaay outperformed ETH and since 2017 till today Bitcoin has waaaaay outperformed ETH. The one cherry picking a few hopium timeframes is you. So you can include the X years that ETH outperformed"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T06:53Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Not me @WallStreetMoon did: "Ethereum to experience price up" ETH went up X years down X years after that. And since Bitcoin exists it has tremendously outperformed gold all that's left is a XX bagger to overtake gold lol"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:08Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Now show me ETH in BTC denomination since 2017 please"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:14Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"@w_s_bitcoin Technically @WesterWolfgang is correct. OGs are people daily involved with Bitcoin in the years 2008-2011. Adam joined Bitcoin in 2013. So you're making a non-issue from a non-event. Typical data spam apologist behavior I must say because on content you can't win anymore"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:19Z 8049 followers, XXX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon ETH is nowhere near ATHs. ETH its ATH was XXXX BTC in 2017. It tanked XX% since then. What are you even talking about Are you drunk Or delusional"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:24Z 8051 followers, X engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Bitcoin is actually a great store of value. That why you see 100s of enterprises etc use it as treasury countries use it as legal tender and did you know that the Bitcoin spot ETFs is by far the most successful ETF of all times"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:28Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Sorry but this getting too dumb to even consider responding. If you have no clue what the difference between money and currency (a money derivative where as fiat currencies these days are not even related to money anymore but are debt-based derivatives) then you're so lost"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:42Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon And if you cannot even grasp that store of value is by itself a majority consensus feature of commodities and assets in general and that Bitcoin as programmable money is for that reason also perceived as a store of value then I don't know what to say anymore. Advice: learn"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:47Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Sorry but you're so dumb. Unbelievable. By the way gold is not outperforming this year. It's doing well but so is Bitcoin"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T07:49Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@aeonBTC @petrijaervinen @NickSzabo4 Sigh. Here we go again. For the umpteenth time: Blocking and rejecting native Bitcoin transactions is censorship. That's not what we are doing. We are filtering contamination rejecting data spam attacks that abuse the Bitcoin blockchain as data storage only"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T08:15Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@AnonCryptoGuy2 @WallStreetMoon Sure. I'll give you that temporary phenomenon with pleasure just like ETH has a little death gasp this year from XXXX BTC to XXXX BTC (but is tanking again already). Now look at Bitcoin's overall performance please"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T08:17Z 8050 followers, XX engagements
"@aeonBTC @petrijaervinen @NickSzabo4 "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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T09:05Z 8050 followers, XXX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T09:10Z 8054 followers, 1420 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 @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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T10:14Z 8053 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T16:06Z 8054 followers, XX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T02:43Z 8052 followers, XX engagements
"@HashBalls23 @NickSzabo4 "i can't reject additional arbitrary data" I'm #RunningKnots and I can"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T02:46Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T03:35Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T03:37Z 8052 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T04:53Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T05:08Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T05:34Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T05:36Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T05:54Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T05:59Z 8054 followers, XX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T06:06Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T06:22Z 8054 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 @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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T06:53Z 8052 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T07:01Z 8052 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T07:05Z 8054 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 @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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T07:12Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T07:15Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T07:17Z 8053 followers, XX engagements
"@baclfoo @_DavidSFreeman @NickSzabo4 @HashBalls23 That would not be a native Bitcoin financial transaction and should thus be avoided"
X Link @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 @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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T08:15Z 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T08:43Z 8052 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T08:53Z 8054 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T10:28Z 8052 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T10:34Z 8054 followers, XX engagements
""Its not actually about the filters it is about who has control over the default settings of the majority client." Not for me. For me it's about mindset. The mindset of miners devs and users (node runners) should be "Bitcoin is money not a data spam Dropbox"). Mindset"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-10T03:56Z 8051 followers, 2129 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T05:25Z 8050 followers, 2219 engagements
""Clearly Bitcoin isn't immutable. Its blockchain is not." 🤦♂"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T03:30Z 8052 followers, XXX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T06:15Z 8051 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T10:29Z 8051 followers, XX engagements
"Adam Back Nick Szabo Samson Mow. The Bitcoin data spam debates in a nutshell"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-19T03:19Z 8050 followers, 35.2K 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T18:01Z 8052 followers, XX engagements
"@BitMEXResearch @edprospero23 These "millions of Runes" didn't make it into the Bitcoin blockchain though. Can you guess why that is"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T04:21Z 8052 followers, XXX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T04:49Z 8050 followers, XXX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-20T09:21Z 8050 followers, 5410 engagements
"@BitcoinEsVe lol you clearly have no idea how Bitcoin works. When all nodes reject a mined block the miner has forked off and can't sell his block subsidy because the exchange node (one of your "home nodes") doesn't accept the miners block remember Please go study Bitcoin more"
X Link @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T04:19Z 8052 followers, XX 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-21T06:19Z 8050 followers, 7798 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 @Arthur_van_Pelt 2025-10-22T04:47Z 8050 followers, X engagements
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