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[@simulxxx](/creator/twitter/simulxxx)
"balanced spam solution: - reduce overall block size a bit increasing fee pressure - nonrecursive covenants for l2 ecash (so small holders aren't priced out of using bitcoin) - op_return2 opcode (discounted to match witness incentivise spam to be pruneable)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1977802913394434102) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-13T18:25Z 5531 followers, 1765 engagements


"@shinyazurill @knutsvanholm I don't think anybody is proposing meme coin fees to sustain mining The only reasonable way to sustain fees is to have a robust layer too that allows batch channels/ecash so everyone can buy coffee for Bitcoin quickly and easily"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978266822429286781) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-15T01:08Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@rektsorekt You have to allow arbitrary data or else people wind up in coding it like they did with inscriptions and that destroys the UTXO set inscriptions is proof that we need a robust op_return"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978268618249924972) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-15T01:16Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"That's because of the minimum fee reduction which I think is a tragic mistake nevertheless Bitcoin desperately needs more casual usage which means a robust layer X lightning is insufficient and the advances in ecash are going to make a huge difference both in privacy and fee aggregation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978511706222690383) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-15T17:22Z 5534 followers, XX engagements


"@cguida6 did you fail to read "speculative small improvements related to span arent worth risking properties that underlie Bitcoins entire reason for existence" . and he is XXX% correct"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978658482912931893) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T03:05Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@_jonasschnelli_ @4moonsettler can we agree that lowering the minimum tx fee routing default was probably a bad idea"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978660000621891659) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T03:11Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@Zatoichi42 Bugfixes. #32646 p2p: Add witness mutation check inside FillBlock #33296 net: check for empty header before calling FillBlock #33395 net: do not apply whitelist permissions to onion inbounds Mempool #33504 mempool: Do not enforce TRUC checks on reorg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978660713653530914) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T03:14Z 5534 followers, XX engagements


"@TriciaOhio @Timodc but you can't just throw rocks at law enforcement people and not expect to get arrested"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978692770064736696) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T05:21Z 5537 followers, XXX engagements


"@Logically_JC @Timodc yeah it sucks when people throw rocks at law enforcement officers and then get arrested but maybe they just shouldn't throw rocks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978692831825781210) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T05:21Z 5537 followers, XX engagements


"@BTCtoOblivion bitcoin v30 knots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978797893109862451) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T12:19Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@glenn_tunes we destroyed the republic with the 17th amendment and the federal reserve and discarding the gold standard all we have now are political grifters and uniparty oligarchy you're probably one of them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978834271381963192) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T14:43Z 5527 followers, XXX engagements


"@jimmysong I think we should consensus remove low fees completely It's not good for Bitcoin to have extremely low fee transactions fees should also go up in relation to contiguous input sizes and block size should be a lot smaller and covenants should be enabled"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978843353174212844) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T15:19Z 5528 followers, XXX engagements


"@Brandonwords @david_seroy there are many problems with Bitcoin that need fixing The problem is is that we have a lot of loud people on Twitter that don't really know what the problem with this graph is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978847918439211200) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T15:38Z 5527 followers, XX engagements


"you meant to say: pure precision and exacting arguments you only have to look at the number of op_returns created to realize that our UTXO set would be DOUBLE what it is today without the success of OP_RETURN right now people are stuffing inscriptions into the utxo set. we can't respond with a censorship bureau instead we respond with incentives. making it easier for them to put their paid-for-spam in a place that doesn't harm node operators we incentivise the use of a harmless opcode rather than a harmful one at the same cost-per-byte that everyone pays that's all that can be done unless you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978876843345481964) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T17:32Z 5528 followers, XXX engagements


"boomers are selling Bitcoin and buying gold because they just chase whatever is trending if gold dumps for like a minute it's going to flip on some weekend and everyone will be like oh my God I completely didn't think this would ever happen And then they'll all pile into Bitcoin and get that wrong too and it'll flip again"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978940031848026126) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T21:44Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@4moonsettler I suspect there's a more serious social attack going on someone is going to post illegal content into op_return in order to prove that knots is necessary and try to reach 50pct of active nodes and start slapping public miners with lawsuits"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979155390672576616) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T11:59Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@Ned17Flanders let's ruin bitcoin so we can force spammers to encode data differently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979156444403634371) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T12:04Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"ICE imposter Hotline information: You never get out of the car for an officer that pulls you over and you call XXX to verify it first If you inform the officer that you are obtaining verification due to a reasonable suspicion of kidnapping they will wait for you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979224770140082232) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T16:35Z 5527 followers, XX engagements


"@SameeLiaei he doesn't know how bitcoin works. probably thinks that raising op_return increases the amount of space spammers can use (it's actually smaller than op_push what spammers usually use)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979269810933633353) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T19:34Z 5537 followers, XX engagements


"@SatsScholar @jimmysong It can't be used as money without a robust layer too allowing people to use it as money unless you want it to be money for like a handful of rich people that transact with each other I guess that's fine"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979326997781451232) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T23:21Z 5531 followers, X engagements


"@NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco This kind of protection The exact thing that we don't want in Bitcoin Content inspecting. Increasingly complex hard-coded rules that are trivial to evade Policy dictated by fear of government"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979850184428601850) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:00Z 5535 followers, 2166 engagements


"@4moonsettler @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco I agree. but most people will buy the "government is going to stop Bitcoin if we don't censor it" argument"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979855883590160403) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:23Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@itsdeaann This honestly looks like a joke. not something someone should condemn. I would like to see the context of all the comments though if they are all just tongue in cheek stuff like this then a completely different group of people need to apologize"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978540921638490122) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-15T19:18Z 5535 followers, 1970 engagements


"@petrijaervinen @darosior @gardling @coryklippsten scaling bitcoin isn't a scam. but it scares the shit out of the shitcoiners promoting knots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979857701716070786) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:30Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@NickSzabo4 @DadGuy1986 @_DavidSFreeman @adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining inscriptions don't use op_return there is no mechanism to prevent them that doesn't put bitcoin itself at risk bitcoin is at risk. core know this. they are defending it. knots's strategy is like destroying your own house to prevent a robbery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979132951901225190) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:30Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"@_DavidSFreeman yep but some of those 1s were getting mined. it should be raised. they *lowered* it. now you can safely send sub-sat transactions using the bitcoin network as a free tor"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979642825471127674) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T20:16Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@Excellion @adam3us @stephanlivera @NickSzabo4 @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch you must know that spammers can *always* modify how they inscribe data trivially and in a few minutes with low overhead the only real solution is to make UTXOs more expensive and to allow financial users to safely share UTXOs using script paths"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979859838906855820) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:39Z 5535 followers, 4755 engagements


"@SeibtNaomi i talked about XX years ago when my mom lost her job to a black woman at macys because of "diversity" (that makeup counter was already XX% black). nobody listened then. nobody listens now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1976765904009756966) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-10T21:44Z 5529 followers, XXX engagements


"@BitcoinMonk21 what the hell do you think inscriptions are they've been around before v30"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978936067685519725) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T21:28Z 5530 followers, XXX engagements


"@thi5partysucks @micah_erfan they were talking about gas chambers darling"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978937729451761949) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T21:34Z 5528 followers, 1633 engagements


"@ThorTorrens @jack @signalapp lightning and ecash on bitcoin (what jack quoted) are private"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978940515283538160) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T21:46Z 5528 followers, XX engagements


"That's it nobody's buying Bitcoin Joe Hill is out"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978954345245708660) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T22:40Z 5528 followers, XXX engagements


"if you want to compare gold and Bitcoin performance it's very simple take a look at a point in history when gold's liquidity as a percentage of global wealth is equal to bitcoins liquidity as a percentage in some subsequent year then compare the following X years"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978955048085524839) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T22:43Z 5526 followers, XX engagements


"@cguida6 @austinhill op return was introduced in order to help compat spam by quarantining it to a safe place on the chain old data-embedding schemes (bare multisig fake scripts) left lots of unspendable outputs permanently clogging the UTXO set inscriptions don't use op_return and never will"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978973562246492505) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-16T23:57Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@NielsDittmann @ParveenYograj @Rainmaker1973 Melanin particularly fungal eumelanin composed of DHI and DHICA subunits acts as a redox network (quinonesemiquinonequinol) that funnels electron flow into metabolic processes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978977013764386912) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T00:11Z 5529 followers, XXX engagements


"No there were inscriptions around since the very beginning they just used terrible mechanisms that bloated the UTXO set forever unspent outputs were used to store images so much better if it's living in op_return or a witness segment crippling Bitcoin to add a XX% overhead for spam is the dumbest idea ever"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978989474458800310) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T01:00Z 5529 followers, XXX engagements


"starting to suspect that this more than anything else is killing the price. og mainteners giving up and selling into a social attack on their own work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979131464663839226) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:24Z 5530 followers, XXX engagements


"@ammokha destroying your home to prevent a robbery is a dumb move we are witnessing in real time a social attack on bitcoin by people who know nothing about bitcoin who can't explain what op_return is for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979131990155640991) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:26Z 5526 followers, XX engagements


"@DetectiveToken you are attacking bitcoin you don't know you are but you are like when putin said "I like kamala" you're suckers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979132264408842443) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:27Z 5530 followers, XXX engagements


"@ubiqunity @ProudSocialist cavemen were better off the most common cause of death back then was murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979133710793335241) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:33Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@Cipherhoodlum op_return is X time more expensive it is strictly better more expensive and smaller than storing images in Bitcoin using other methods you're a liar that knows nothing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979134338219544957) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:36Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@innerhat no it's not. it's meaningless. the only way to prevent data is to prevent Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979134997207326906) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T10:38Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"100% guaranteed that some knots user will post CSAM in op_return in order to prove they are right even though they could have done it years ago and then it will get a shitton of press this is a social attack on bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979154285591171328) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T11:55Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@btcmackc he has the same opinion today bitcoin isn't and can't be a shitcoin network we don't need turing completeness and a large attack surface op_return use is better than the alternatives @brian_trollz actually understands. how bitcoin works you don't"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979159051406578073) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T12:14Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@SameeLiaei the cult of "I have no idea how bitcoin works but I'm here to shout at people about it""  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979159328193155474) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T12:15Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@Anton__BTC Bitcoin should not let vitalik tweets influence their policies I certainly hope that doesn't happen same with a bunch of people who don't understand anything about protocols or incentives or even what op_return is for hopefully core ignores this nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979326538257699146) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T23:19Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@MRBFREEDOM @jimmysong knots weakens Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979326920576897540) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T23:21Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@Thecowsmeow1 @btcmackc @brian_trollz he is correct bitcoin should not be a shitcoin network and op_return doesn't make it a shitcoin network vitalik building eth on bitcoin would have been a terrible idea and a large op_return doesn't allow "eth on bitcoin" alone vitalik wanted a LOT of new opcodes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979340483941011554) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T00:15Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@Thecowsmeow1 @btcmackc @brian_trollz meanwhile XX bytes is what they arrived at. why people were creating TWO op_return transactions to finish thier spam the ONLY logical response is to reduce the spam and allow it in one place. trying to "stop them" just sent them to using txouts and other terrible places"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979340760832184755) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T00:16Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"no you don't understand. op_return is NOT ADDED to the UTXO set EVER not even in archival nodes. it is never added. saving critical node resources and preventing thrashing the current UTXO set would be DOUBLE the size without the XX byte size and we're in danger of that happening again if we don't encourage OP_RETURN use over other regions of the chain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979341802449883489) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T00:20Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@TheVladCostea @Cipherhoodlum how's monero doing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979342042254971255) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T00:21Z 5528 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinMotorist Wait you don't even know how they work and you have strong opinions on random stuff you don't know anything about why would you need me to explain it You can just ask any old AI to explain it to you @grok what opcodes do inscriptions use"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979356132746629514) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T01:17Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@MajorianBTC wrong. the people who want Bitcoin to be usable and stay decentalized have always been in charge and thank goodness they don't take Luke's lawsuit bait and threats seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979378227367104772) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T02:45Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinBombadil @PortlandHODL @BitcoinBugle @adam3us @BitMEXResearch @Rob1Ham @MrHodl @w_s_bitcoin @MartyBent @PeterMcCormack @_DannyKnowles @DavidFBailey yep and policy is there to defend nodes consensus is about money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979379984398688595) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T02:52Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"knots didn't fix the discount luke added nonsense code like this below which increases attack surface and opens up broader content based censorship concerns no it's not possible to fix and these aren't "bugs" data can be embedded in an *infinite* number of ways and it's *trivial* for a spammer to change how before Taproot many spammers used tx-outputs or tx-inputs l indistinguishable from regular transactions these *wrecked* the UTXO set"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979475291811820013) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:11Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@LiliH65289916 lowering minrelaytxfee may have been a mistake. but increasing op_return limits is strictly beneficial good luck getting anyone to agree on nuance though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979480901575905372) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:33Z 5526 followers, XXX engagements


"@venorusprime @lopp lowering minrelaytxfee may have been a mistake. but increasing op_return limits is strictly beneficial good luck getting anyone to agree on nuance though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979480983520104848) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:33Z 5530 followers, XXX engagements


"@DudeJLebowski lopp isn't a core dev this is the actual rationale. most people won't understand it. clearly lopp never read it good luck getting anyone to agree on nuance though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979481611919056912) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:36Z 5526 followers, XX engagements


"@DudeJLebowski this has nothing to do with morals or ethics the main bug in core relay policy is the lowering of minrelaytxfee which happened in june and is strictly negative from what i see knots fixes this but also adds a larger attack surface and content policing which is net negative"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979483795289149913) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:44Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@DudeJLebowski oh I see what you mean. but I still think his rationale set is accurate reflective of the real reasons the changes were made uncapping op_return was strictly positive for node runners but uncapping the relay fee may have been very bad and nobody even understands it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979486086020923813) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:53Z 5528 followers, XX engagements


"@adam3us @CaminaDrummer4 @stephanlivera @LukeDashjr core mintxfee change is strictly harmful (see below) op_return increase is however positive (incentives help node runners) nudes should only ever relay transactions that have a high chance of being mined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979489610268037163) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:07Z 5528 followers, XX engagements


"@DudeJLebowski spam doesn't care about "welcoming" these are deliberately harmful people ordinals is a massive burden for Bitcoin probably the most harmful attack *and knots doesn't stop it* this is a real threat makes sense to actually try to stop it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979492602606137629) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:19Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@DudeJLebowski until inscriptions which threatened to completely topple Bitcoin magine if you needed a terabyte of RAM In my opinion that would destroy the decentralization of the protocol"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979492762308460689) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:20Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@MajorianBTC do we need bitcoin to be usable by anyone who wants to send money to anyone else"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979493319261737044) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:22Z 5530 followers, X engagements


"@BitcoinAIMusic @adam3us @coryklippsten why haven't people used Bitcoin to post that content before It has always been easy to post arbitrary content on chain. are you saying that people who are fans of relay restrictions are going to post that content and then sue people in order to prove that they are right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979495134330036606) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:29Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinAIMusic @adam3us @coryklippsten it's really important for Bitcoin to developers to consider legal risks when making relay policy changes that are designed to improve compact block relay and reduce UTXO set what jurisdictions should we be worried about what other sorts of illegal content should be filtered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979499867857948794) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:48Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@bramk @lopp mintxfee needs to be raised nodes should never relay transactions that have no chance of being mined That's a serious attack vector not this filter nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979500957047407062) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:53Z 5528 followers, XXX engagements


"@The_BTC_Patriot @21milinfinity False. Bitcoin cannot scale to be global money unless we have a layer two. if you want everything to transact on layer one there are other shitcoins for you to invest it No need to pollute Bitcoin with knotzi fake morality"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979598196956627233) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T17:19Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@CryptoVincenzio @DetectiveToken let's ruin bitcoin so we can force spammers to encode data differently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979156341194183067) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T12:03Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"let's ruin bitcoin so we can force spammers to encode data differently"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979156725090419090) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T12:05Z 5530 followers, XXX engagements


"adding censorship code to bitcoin harms regular users by bloating the UTXO set and making it more expensive to run a node also it's harder for Bitcoin to aggregate fees and grow as a network without lightning and other tech that expands the user base op_return is a "garbage can" you want to remove the garbage can because you don't like garbage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979164080440250791) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T12:34Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@joeroganhq better than banning guns we should ban murder"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979198679623110976) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T14:51Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"parman I know you mean well Do you understand that you cannot stop spam on the blockchain right It's literally impossible without destroying Bitcoin itself Before op_return people encoded data into the outputs which was incredibly worse and was massively destroying the UTXO set so Bitcoin introduced an opcode to corral that and the result of that is the UTXO set is now half the size that it would be I think once you understand that fact you'll understand that we need a *place to put spam*. increasingly complex censorship like the code below that Luke put into knots cannot be the solution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979210625999081948) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T15:39Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@baclfoo @DetectiveToken fee aggregating financial transactions that allow more people to use Bitcoin without bloating the UTXO set and the size of the overall chain The lightning Network is the most popular layer X for Bitcoin I use it everyday"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979211148043129070) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T15:41Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"The UTXO said is extremely sensitive to available RAM level DB is good at this but at some point it will start thrashing and cause a lot of problems for node runners Go ahead and destroy the UTXO set if you want to kill the majority of Bitcoin nodes and decentralization if it wasn't for op_return The UTXO set would be approximately twice what it is today inscriptions currently waste UTXOs ideally they would live elsewhere"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979221385169019128) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T16:22Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@MajorianBTC core developers have already proposed a consensus change to limit script pub keys It's being actively discussed The encoding of spam into public keys is extremely bad for Bitcoin and historically has resulted in massive bloat"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979485514068906099) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T09:51Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"@MajorianBTC there's no meaningful difference between previous versions and current versions with regards to actual filtering of content on chain however the new version does have problems with relay fees and filtering nodes should only propagate transactions that are likely to clear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979489815403151604) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:08Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"I think core is a lot more nervous about the UTXO set then they let on and don't want to broadcast the serious issues with it That's one of the reason they are cagey and will only talk in person or in IRC about their real concerns I think you could take Bitcoin out for about XX million"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979495419257434385) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:30Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@Singekino_Miner if more minors thought spam was a problem we would see more than X% of them using ocean"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979495654444630495) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:31Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@JuanMontano1027 @cguida6 @stephanlivera weird protocols that use Bitcoin to store data there are more op_returns than UTXOs so we know people use it and it's good that data isn't encoded elsewhere ultimately it doesn't matter we need to keep UTXOs down and op_return is our best line of defense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979504465641406727) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T11:06Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@stephanlivera spam can kill decentralization if we let it Zero cost relay: dead UTXO explosion: dead spam absolutely can kill decentralization Filters matter bandwidth matters Nodes need to relay only what is likely to be mined"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979504813114352036) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T11:08Z 5530 followers, XXX engagements


"@The_BTC_Patriot is this money @21milinfinity does this count as money"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979569718119063851) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T15:26Z 5531 followers, XXX engagements


"@Anton__BTC lopp is not a core dev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979598881802609113) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T17:22Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"@MalachiRevolts @darosior that's a mintxfee bug not return"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979872548218413332) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T11:29Z 5530 followers, X engagements


"@soloyopee @Ben_deWaal @BitcoinMonk21 You do realize that it takes a spammer XX minutes to evade any possible restrictions you put on it And it takes Bitcoin XX months to fork in those restrictions let's not pretend we can actually stop it and find solutions to safely financially disincentivize it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979879416865169811) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T11:56Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"Spam is a problem but the knots is approach isn't a solution. Knots strictly worsens the problem for node operators introduces attacks complexity and malincentives. A correct solution would incentivize spammers to use op codes we can keep out of the UTXO set remove from our hard drives and hit fees that are commensurate with contiguity - but are still less than embedding data in legitimate seeming transactions. Calculation of steganography overhead is not difficult and it is fairly low. Arbitrarily limiting Bitcoin to extremely small transactions has its own dangers where Bitcoin can no"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1978490937077911886) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-15T15:59Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"that's a dumb move. spam on bitcoin matters. we disagree about solutions not whether it's a problem op_return was introduced to be a "garbage can" . preventing spam from infiltrating the utxo set core wanted to make it bigger to prevent garbage elsewhere. people whining about it don't even know what it's for"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979268615687008758) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T19:29Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"op_return was introduced to be a "garbage can" . preventing spam from infiltrating the utxo set core wanted to make it bigger to prevent garbage elsewhere. people whining about it don't even know what it's for or why it matters. bitcoin is still "shitcoin resistant" but it needs a robust financial layer-two (lightning network) or else it won't be able to handle square and other users in order to do that we probably need covenants but that makes people *even more nervous* so we're trying out stuff thats weaker and requires no consensus changes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979269301715779873) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T19:32Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@JonMunitz if you bankrupt everybody with enough taxes then everybody will need UBI except a handful of massive corporations that everybody will have to work for as practically slaves or be forced to live in brutalist free housing"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979493552922177700) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T10:23Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"@BitcoinMonk21 best reason to censor bitcoin is being afraid of the government how many of these rules will we need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979851789320286211) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:07Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"shitcoiners love knots. the last thing they want is a robust bitcoin network"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979856836213031207) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:27Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"knots people think bitcoin is centralized"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979857803700527250) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:30Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"@adam3us @Arthur_van_Pelt social attacks on Bitcoin are the most dangerous attack vector of all should definitely be considered rationally without rhetoric 100kb could have been 4kb And nobody would have complained"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979863523145707918) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:53Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"best thing about the op_return timeline is you can easily follow all the people who understand how bitcoin works or are willing to learn and unfollow all the "influencers" that just want to threaten people and meme themselves into relevance"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979870030511952139) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T11:19Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"@soloyopee @Ben_deWaal @BitcoinMonk21 of course that's the objective. but what exactly are the harms aside from UTXO bloat which is a huge problem I don't see any harm in op_return spam"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979891903291441370) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T12:46Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@bearly_smiles @BitcoinMonk21 @CaminaDrummer4 I use lightning everyday and it works wonderfully and allows me to spend and replace effectively Also It greatly enhances the anonymity The only problem is some of the layer two swap stuff needs additional op codes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979953175517151494) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T16:49Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@soloyopee @Ben_deWaal @BitcoinMonk21 no op_return was about giving spammers a safe place to spam so that the UTXO set wasn't polluted"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979985619008000511) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T18:58Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@GrassFedBitcoin clearly op_return wasn't a big enough garbage can because inscriptions are using transaction inputs but you guys just want to get rid of the garbage can altogether because you hate garbage"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979193119158534567) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T14:29Z 5535 followers, XXX engagements


"@w_s_bitcoin @River csam fud is playing out. maybe wait for luke's lawsuits to land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979195505029845459) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T14:39Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@Cipherhoodlum knots is improving bitcoin one special censorship rule at a time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979196537499750781) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T14:43Z 5530 followers, XX engagements


"@w_s_bitcoin @River fair. dca is the best defense against volatility"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979196610606473420) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T14:43Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"words are just squiggly lines that with training can make you hallucinate teach your kids to read #icanread"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979197859661586751) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T14:48Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"meme warfare against bitcoin. fortunately this only represents about X% of hashpower. miners know how to protect their investment"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979252675050123355) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T18:26Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"this person thinks that the government not friends family and churches is better trusted to provide a safety net and that we should forcibly take money and assests from people in order to produce a government ubi rather than just letting people help each other naturally. meanwhile that same government uses cantillion effects and insider trading to enrich its members and the corporations that sponsor them. but yeah. they're the good guys"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979271341284167943) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-17T19:40Z 5534 followers, XX engagements


"@_DavidSFreeman spam can kill decentralization if we let it Zero cost relay: dead UTXO explosion: dead spam absolutely can kill decentralization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979503931786166615) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T11:04Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"No this is a terrible piece of code You do understand that this code actually is the first time any Bitcoin node has had any content inspection at all we don't need to change Bitcoin and add content inspection that breaks everything Bitcoin is why not scan using AI and make sure that there's no images at all Do you see how broken that is"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979567624339275821) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T15:17Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"@Arthur_van_Pelt I find it very positive"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979587615700771200) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T16:37Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@Thecowsmeow1 @GrassFedBitcoin I suppose you can say that all encodings are hacks regardless the cost for encoding is basically zero for spammers and the cost for defending against them is massive for Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979588212583776275) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T16:39Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"@SameeLiaei yes they are. Do you not subscribe to the DevLists there are proposals for reducing the script pub key sizes and other spam reduction proposals No one who is working on Bitcoin cares about NFTs Lopp is not a core dev"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979598797006409977) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T17:21Z 5529 followers, XX engagements


"if you just raise the minimum transaction fee core behaves normally again the new versions since XX are terrible because they destroy your bandwidth with nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979600682262163844) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-18T17:29Z 5533 followers, XXX engagements


"@soloyopee @Ben_deWaal @BitcoinMonk21 best reason to censor bitcoin is being afraid of the government how many of these rules will we need"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979851864960311466) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:07Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"@4moonsettler @NickSzabo4 @zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco that doesn't stop inscriptions they use XXX byte chunks"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979852059248890334) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:08Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@petrijaervinen @darosior @gardling @coryklippsten no the main reason is financial transactions and sharing UTXOs I think you wildly underestimate how UTXO spam is extremely dangerous to Bitcoin you think vitalik didn't pounce on this opportunity to hurt core of course he did"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979862708058222966) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T10:50Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinBombadil @LukeDashjr if we added an operation that allows users to safely share UTXOs we could reduce the block size and still preserve Bitcoin as a global monetary network This path forward seems to be the safest"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979881560888471760) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T12:05Z 5535 followers, XX engagements


"assuming you have $X to spam And you spent it on an op_return that's strictly better then spending it anywhere else You speak as if there's some unlimited supply of funding for spam if that was the case the blockchain would be overrun already none of these filters actually stop anything You know that right"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979884231208902972) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T12:15Z 5531 followers, XX engagements


"@taters_bitcoin how is Adam wrong here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/simulxxx/status/1979986431654465642) [@simulxxx](/creator/x/simulxxx) 2025-10-19T19:02Z 5535 followers, XX engagements