The block size war in 2017 proved that miners don't control Bitcoin - nodes do. The spam war in 2025-26 will prove that developers/maintainers don't control Bitcoin - nodes do. History doesn't repeat, but it rhymes.

In a nutshell, Core's vision of Bitcoin is that all participants of the network are slaves to malicious transaction crafters. If you're a regular user and your normal transactions gets outbidded by porn GIFs and orangewashed VC-funded shitcoins that's too bad it's the free market, suck it up. If you're a node runner and don't want to relay and facilitate the garbage that's too bad your mempool needs to predict what will get mined, suck it up. If you're a miner and don't want to help these bad actors that's too bad you need to take their fees or you'll go bankrupt, suck it up. And let's not even get into participating in consensus rule governance, it is up to sanctioned developers and large pools to plan and activate forks! I truly don't get why anyone holding this mental model would be interested in Bitcoin. Fortunately it's completely upside-down: in reality all participants are fully sovereign to do what they please, otherwise Bitcoin wouldn't be a decentralized system. Each node runner is free to relay whatever transactions he wants following whatever criteria he wants. And each miner is also free to prioritize transactions for mining following whatever strategy he wants, and signal for whatever forks he supports. A sane full node software strives to maximize its user's sovereignty and give them tools to wield against bad actors instead of chipping away said sovereignty release after release. While Core doesn't correct course and is still widely used there will be room for other implementations to eat away its market share.

Andy Back controls a Bitcoin mining scam: natinfosec.substack.com/p/ad…

Andy Back's Blockstream Mining is a fraud: youtube.com/watch?v=kZGzkrMu…

CAPTURE An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended. Article Three: The Merge citadel21.com/the-merge

Same fees, no spam, healthy block. What exactly is the argument against RDTS again?

There is no fallacy more destructive than the idea that prices naturally increase over time. All prices should fall if the economy is more productive. Indefinitely. It is literally only because trillions of dollars are counterfeited from nothing every year, and our time, living standards, home affordability, and critical resources get sucked out of the economy to pay for it that things get more expensive. It is explicitly unnatural and it’s explicitly because we have fake money and a communist central bank at the lowest layer of our economic system.

Starting now…

BIP110!

Spacex is a rugpull. Buy Bitcoin.

Mindblowing. If you still don't understand the scale of the SpaceX IPO, ponder this: a welder who moved from Mexico and joined SpaceX in 2015 earning $28 an hour is now holding $880,000 in stock, and he is one of 4,400 employees becoming millionaires today.

BIP-110 combined with Knots is a one-two punch to the spammers and they know it. They are lying.

The main reason I didn't merge privatebroadcast to @BitcoinKnots, was that I judged it to be underreviewed and prone to bugs. Since Core merged it in January, there were several followup fixes proving I was right, even before 31.0 was released. They went ahead and released it anyway.

Time to dump Core. Activate RDTS and defend Bitcoin from higher ground. Core is a dumpster fire.

People claiming that we have to accept the rules and consensus of bitcoin are forgetting that core v30 drew first blood with the blow out of op-return. BIP-110 will return us to pre v30 consensus.

The reason that journalists can pass on FAKE NEWS is because Obama authorized it. Restore the Smith-Mundt Act and the mass brainwashing will STOP.

Every empire that debased its currency thought it was the exception. None of them were. You are living inside the greatest monetary experiment in human history. It ends the same way they all end. The only variable is whether you’re on the right side when it does.

The orange hoodie meme is good. The message is incomplete. Bitcoin doesn’t just “go up forever” by design. It stays valuable when people run their own nodes, verify the rules, and keep the chain usable for money — not arbitrary data. That’s why Knots BIP-110 matters. Don’t trust. Verify.

I just watched Disclosure Day. Two and a half hours of cringe. Spielberg clings to clichés the way boomers cling to their real estate. Yeah, that’s the perfect analogy. Oh, and it has the usual dose of anti-Christian propaganda. Just more of Hollywood's bullshit psyops.