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[@csuwildcat](/creator/twitter/csuwildcat)
"Let's take this image issue: if governments hated Bitcoin so much and thought this was a way to kill it they wouldn't give a single iota of a shit about filters they'd get txns into the chain with whatever data they felt would achieve their ends. How is this not obvious to everyone"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1977205205235114123) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-12T02:50Z 26.1K followers, 17.7K engagements


"You're a layperson johnny-come-lately who can't comprehend what I'm saying and thinks Satoshi was a shitcoiner for calling his creation a timechain (decentralized chronological oracle) in posts where he details it solving for cases like provable timestamps decentralized DNS etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979851140444344456) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T10:04Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"The consensus protocol rules are the attack surface of Bitcoin not the easily bypassed decisions of some user nodes to ignore txns until they appear in blocks. Consensus rules are the only thing blocking true attackers b/c there's no game theoretical reason they wouldn't just step around node filters"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1977195261093884289) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-12T02:10Z 26.1K followers, 16.9K engagements


"@blank21M @BitcoinMonk21 @zachherbert Lmfao so I just described Bitcoin's core mechanism in academic technical terms and mentioned things like Open Timestamps are valid use cases that require the same solution so you call me a scammer Are you genuinely retarded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979510302757789889) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T11:30Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@BitcoinMonk21 @blank21M @_colourorange Not really: Satoshi just wasn't around long enough to realize that the security of these systems inherently coalesces into a single monetary base chain. You can't replicate Bitcoin's level of security with a different chain and token and that's exactly what you'd need to do"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979989810254094648) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T19:15Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"Imagine suffering from such delusions of grandeur that you could post this cringingly inflated view of yourself and not die instantly of an embarrassment-induced stroke:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1975958337691984099) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-08T16:15Z 26.1K followers, 45K engagements


"@colbyserpa @adam3us @NickSzabo4 May seem unintuitive but legally creating a native filter system process for distribution and legal notices of activity *increase not decrease* the likelihood of gov interdiction and courts compelling repurposed use for gov demands - filters are a misadventurous gift to gov"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1976618239871594740) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-10T11:58Z 26.1K followers, 75.2K engagements


"@btcmoneyfury @StackSatsIO @adam3us @colbyserpa @NickSzabo4 You're asserting a false premise: nothing has gotten easier for bad actors to insert the content some people are claiming to be an existential threat nothing. No bad actor of the sort is deterred by goofy personal node blinders they can step around at will 😮💨"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1977214306421743624) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-12T03:26Z 26.1K followers, 18.8K engagements


"@CBRobber General facts of life: - The majority of humans are not very smart - Even fewer understand technology at a code/systems level - Dramatic causes that allow people to feel special draw more clicks than someone saying "This really isn't a big deal and things will be fine" 🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978096160536432651) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-14T13:50Z 26.1K followers, 15.4K engagements


"Yep one can write a utility that chunks any image into byte sequences finds them in ordinary non-spam txn values and outputs a map of block_height txn_index serialized_range triples that reproduce the image - every possible image to ever exist is already stored in Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978097701452415485) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-14T13:56Z 26.1K followers, 1351 engagements


"Game theory & legal issues are in play that make integrating subjectively targetable txn filtering directly into Bitcoin's reference implementation a risk that can expose it to systemic harm. I think it was a rare error for Satoshi to add any such filters after Bitcoin's release"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978198402643919205) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-14T20:37Z 26.1K followers, 27.4K engagements


"@NickSzabo4 @adam3us @colbyserpa @ocean_mining This is where I don't understand your position: precedent for illegal content suggests very little legal risk related to such content under this specific fact pattern whereas precedent for gov forcing use of mechanisms for its ends absent undue burden is a proven high risk 🤷♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978514569275306088) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-15T17:33Z 26.1K followers, 2201 engagements


"@SameeLiaei I don't think subjective targeted filtering was ever a good idea and it's the most likely vector for State infliction of regulatory/legal control"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978668885176947138) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T03:46Z 26.1K followers, 2081 engagements


"First off I've been in Bitcoin since 2011 as a dev and understand the system very well so don't condescend to me kiddo. Second I'll directly challenge your assertion that filters aren't becoming increasingly targeted in a way I fear is a slippery slope: why is there a filter to specifically reject txns with XX block lock times in Knots"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978772854624665927) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T10:39Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"In response to your Appeal to Tradition I'd like to better understand your level of consideration: since the filters in question were introduced over a decade ago has anything significant changed about the topology makeup technical implementation and dynamics of the relay network"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978775772438335505) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T10:51Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"There's precedent to lean on that should prevail there but here's my question for you: let's assume the Filterer vision for increasingly subjective highly targeted filters nodes dynamically retrieve by phoning home wins out - what will wallets miners and economic nodes argue in court to avoid gov forcing them to run its own desired filters absent the AWA undue burden defense that such a natively embedded filter system nullifies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978780351062323331) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T11:09Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Ah so how would you adjust your initial definition given this txn's primary purpose was payment and you didn't add this new caveat Is it that any txn that carries any extra bytes even if its primary purpose is sending money spam What about a txn that locks up my balance in a vault and includes 1k of encrypted metadata I need for maintaining state/coordination across wallets"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978796837860446546) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T12:15Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"How about when we have native ZK verification in Bitcoin and I lock up my Bitcoin with a template for a fuzzy quantized feature vector of an image such that unlocking is accomplished by taking another photo of the thing I locked it with and submit the zk proof that I know what the thing is that unlocks it It's a transfer of money but requires non-monetary bytes for the locking data"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978799212226646300) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T12:24Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@Zatoichi42 They would work better for the State (primarily against miners and economic nodes) because the State can inflict harm for defiance whereas filters offered purely as a voluntary community/implementation choice don't subject operators to that. How is this not obvious"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978808675163636224) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T13:02Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"First I'll note the OP_RETURN limits remain unchanged - Bitcoin accepts the same size OP_RETURNs today as it did before v30. Next please consider the glaring holes in your logic: X. If attackers thought such content would kill Bitcoin they'd just bypass the silly filters and get it into the chain through any number of routes. X. There's already content of the sort in Bitcoin so there's nothing stopping gov from mounting this argument today if they thought it would be effective"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979029549611409778) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-17T03:39Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@soloyopee @giacomozucco @adam3us @oomahq @_DavidSFreeman @coinjoined @start9labs @_MattHill_ That's not how gov evaluates undue burden under AWA. It's about what mechanisms are shipped inside the official implementation they seek to compel compliance in"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979256362220544360) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-17T18:41Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"Is the answer for an example like decentralized DNS: "Go build it using a shitcoin/token" I hope not b/c 1) why on earth would we direct people to shitcoins and 2) even if we did whatever decentralized chronological oracle that decentralized DNS was rooted in would inherently cause its native token to be valued which would put it in competition with Bitcoin. It's a bit of a Catch XX because you simply can't separate value of the activity from value of the until used to pay for recording entries into the decentralized system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979398946247074004) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T04:07Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"Arthur respectfully I've been doing this Bitcoin thing as a dev since 2011 so not only do I know the system well I'm well aware of the forum posts you're going to cite. What I mentioned could be a sidechain but definitely needs to be anchored in Bitcoin and potentially consume upwards of X% of block space to do securely/properly. Satoshi left before this was all fully understood and I've worked in the DPKI field with greater expertise there than he ever had. How about instead of posting platitudes you actually describe to me how one solves global namespace DPKI with transferable names so I"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979509425766306210) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T11:26Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"The bytes existing embedded in a single sequence doesn't mean they are 'readable by Bitcoin' - if you'd like to prove it simply cite the function in the native client code that does viewOpReturnAsImage(). It isn't there thus the point stands that you need special non-native software to perform willful intentional acts to transform any of those embedded bytes into actual content viewable by a human"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979511778070433901) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T11:36Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@blank21M Oh no I'm a scammer for 1) only ever owning Bitcoin since 2011 2) describing Bitcoin in computer science terms and 3) noting that Open Timestamps is a valid use case that requires the same solution at the heart of Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979512677706732012) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T11:39Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"I'm not even going to entertain the idea that people are bad/scammers for simply discussing the technical aspects of problems/solutions - to pretend an inability to understand something is a virtue is like a bizarre celebration of intellectual deficiency. Bitcoin is obviously money by design and intent. The question of whether Bitcoin and its core innovation (the solution to the chronological oracle problem) is useful for other things is complicated because to solve them you 1) need a chronological oracle log that has the same features as Bitcoin which 2) introduces an uncomfortable situation"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979542035792044123) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T13:36Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@PraveenPerera @BitcoinMonk21 @zachherbert To the contrary: game theoretically utility tokens don't make any sense because the level of security a system like decentralized DNS (for example) requires is equivalent to money itself and any alt-chain/token would provide orders of magnitude less than Bitcoin"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979703257703596093) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T00:16Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@PraveenPerera @BitcoinMonk21 @zachherbert Sufficient capabilities/capacity to address other critical freedom technologies on other layers (decentralized identifier DNS/DPKI for one)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979898196986843251) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T13:11Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@DonalDevine In general courts have already asserted their decision based on precedent established in cases like US v. New York Telephone Company Moody v. NetChoice Apple v. FBI/San Bernardino and dozens of other AWA-related cases that hinge on the undue burden test. This is not novel"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978206546707235242) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-14T21:09Z 26.1K followers, 38.3K engagements


"GMax is right. Filter folk we share a disdain for shitcoin garbage but the censorial mechanisms you want are a far greater threat to Bitcoin in the long run. I know it sucks seeing block space used for such crap but please throw the ring away it's not worth it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978638526980714578) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T01:46Z 26.1K followers, 7505 engagements


"I'm more amenable to changing consensus protocol rules to limit OP_RETURN (and other such things) instead of filters. Filtering mechanisms that target specific txn content is a bad idea imo that will lead to endless Karening or worse outcomes like commandeering by the State"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1978894833486856333) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-16T18:44Z 26.1K followers, 17.9K engagements


"You're missing the key component of the defense: forcing you to do the coding is a violation of the 1st Amendment b/c code is seen as expression currently. The balance in AWA is the extent of what gov can compel and the courts have drawn a line generally at the point where a company/entity has to create a whole mechanism just for it vs direct a specific action with a mechanism that already facilitates what they require"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979264447580340733) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-17T19:13Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@oomahq @soloyopee @adam3us @_DavidSFreeman @giacomozucco @coinjoined @start9labs @_MattHill_ "it cannot force end users to run that code" - it can force miners and economic nodes to run it and as history shows the vast majority of users run the default out-of-box variant of software"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979289375902175501) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-17T20:52Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"I said solving the chronological oracle problem addresses a handful of use cases and of course Bitcoin is the most secure reliable solution in operation. This COP is at the heart of use cases like decentralized DNS timestamps etc. so I'm not sure why you quoted me as if I said something blasphemous"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979358161539682604) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T01:25Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@Arthur_van_Pelt Bitcoin is money and the strongest most secure decentralized chronological oracle we've ever had which creates a paradox for the few use cases that also require one: things like decentralized DNS (one example case) require the same strength & security so where do they get it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979396998420664430) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T03:59Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@Arthur_van_Pelt How would you suggest someone interested in advancing decentralized DNS go about it The use case requires a decentralized ledger where DNS-like records are written removing governments and a corporate cabal from dictating access to the world's information lookup/routing system"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979400695125053663) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T04:14Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@rektsorekt @1hmle Much more advanced forms of vault logic so you can lock up coins with more interesting requirements for unlock is one example"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979524196339159484) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T12:25Z 26.1K followers, X engagements


"I heard there was a 'No Kings' protest today so does that mean the Democrats Republicans leftists and conservatives now agree we shouldn't have a powerful Executive Branch that can control our lives Wait they just want their preferred king to rule us Wow that's retarded"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979720979707502946) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T01:27Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"Your random whitepaper screeching just goes to show you're a midwit who isn't even comprehending what I'm trying to communicate. I'm describing the general computer science problem Bitcoin's *timechain* (decentralized chronological oracle) solves for. (Satoshi considered calling it a timechain for the same reason)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979832889412919784) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T08:51Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@blank21M @BitcoinMonk21 Amazing - I've been actively saving with and developing on Bitcoin for XX years never once holding a shitcoin yet I'm being called a shitcoiner for daring to mention checks notes things Satoshi himself did. The word shitcoiner means absolutely nothing now apparently 🤦♂"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979846675125690512) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T09:46Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"Somehow our Bitcoin community birthed a mob of low-information larpers who screech "Whitepaper" and call other Bitcoiners shitcoiners for mentioning the timechain of Bitcoin enables provable timestamps decentralized DNS etc. all of which Satoshi himself detailed in his posts"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979847017175363874) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T09:48Z 26.1K followers, 3794 engagements


"@blank21M Presently looking at enabling likely some mix of lightning spark ark and other scaled L2 transfer/payment protocols (if any others look promising)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979854531552059556) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T10:17Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@maxkeiser I'll note there's no block size increase or any consensus rule change involved - in fact if the whole block was one big OP_RETURN data txn it would max out at 1MB (ironically smaller than what spammers frequently do today)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979855375945114067) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T10:21Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@blank21M I believe policy filters are the wrong place to enforce such things and are probably Satoshi's biggest mistake (due to the AWA legal implications if the filter system gets invasive enough). Instead any such limits should be part of the actual Bitcoin consensus protocol rules"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979880191532167413) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T11:59Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@PraveenPerera @BitcoinMonk21 @zachherbert I said on other layers but we need the capabilities to make that possible. (a native ZK verifier and recursive covenants would be foundational in doing so)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979901222179012630) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T13:23Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"It's not about "in Bitcoin" it's about anchoring on the only secure decentralized immutable log we've ever had and specifically not creating some alt-chain/token for it because implicitly if the system gained traction the units used to gate writes would accrue monetary value. It's stupid not to use Bitcoin to anchor sensible things that require decentralization"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979909567619240305) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T13:56Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@BitcoinMonk21 @blank21M @_colourorange Can you reply with something that clearly demonstrates you understand the *very critical* concept I just articulated It'll be impossible to proceed with the discussion unless this point is understood"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979990314778546548) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T19:17Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@JuergenStrobel @blank21M @BitcoinMonk21 @zachherbert Yep Bitcoin's UTXO unit balances being valued as money is technically a *byproduct of its ability to create a reliable chronological linear event log* - people's belief in its ability for it to act as a decentralized chronological oracle is what gives those numbers value"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979993405296910639) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T19:29Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@blank21M @BitcoinMonk21 @_colourorange Holy hell your reading comprehension is atrocious - I literally said the exact opposite of what you just tried disparaging me for: you *shouldn't* do that. Am I talking to a XX year old or something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1980000477774266738) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T19:57Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements


"@Arthur_van_Pelt You asked for an answer so I've given you a thoughtful detailed one about a very important self-sovereign freedom-tech use case I'm passionate about. I'm interested in your opinion so please give it some serious thought and address the issues/questions it raises"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979402376202125694) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-18T04:21Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"I shouldn't care but it does irk me that a bunch of shallow laypeople who showed up in the last few years have the audacity to suggest those of us who have spent almost XX years holding and developing with Bitcoin should "read the whitepaper" and "study Bitcoin". I just 😮💨"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979849402438271031) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T09:57Z 26.1K followers, XXX engagements


"@Bleacher_Bunch @Anarseldain @AstroParrotKing They tore down the statue of Jefferson one of the most ardent abolitionists who enacted several laws to help stop slavery. These (you) are not serious people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1979895289373937872) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-19T12:59Z 26.1K followers, 1409 engagements


"@BitcoinMotorist @notgrubles Do you really think everyone who disagrees with the approach of Knots/filters likes NFTs and other spammy nonsense on Bitcoin Are you genuinely incapable of distinguishing between these positions or do you just reply like this as some sort of intentionally dense troll-schtick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/csuwildcat/status/1980078045256913256) [@csuwildcat](/creator/x/csuwildcat) 2025-10-20T01:06Z 26.1K followers, XX engagements