Meh…here’s a casualty of excessive soft forking: I have a lot of custom miniscripts I have been working on that will become invalid for spending, ostensibly on a temporary basis…these scripts do stuff that people want: like use these three keys at any time or these two keys if 32768 blocks have passed or this one key if 65534 blocks have passed…that’s not spam! But some scripts that accomplish this or similar security use notif or similarly “bad” formerly approved opcodes… Honey badger doesn’t care about spam. People do. People who can’t even account for the rather trivial resources blocks chock full of spam would require…in fact, I’d bitcoin had 0 spam but had blocks full of transactions computing resource requirements would be -higher- than mostly spam blocks. Saying that spam kills bitcoin is like saying if bitcoin gets used, it dies.

Unfortunately quite lucrative for those with zero inegrity. 📝 7e611d1f…

Citrea and other as well ... 📝 ae75c924…

Citrea in which Jameson SLopp, Peter Thiel the chairman of Palantir and the major scammer Erik Voorhees are investors. "We're hearing things like Citrea is better than Ethereum," Chainway Labs co-founder Orkun Mahir Kılıç told CoinDesk. "It'll be better with time, because there's like $1 trillion, as of now, sitting in the Bitcoin blockchain. It is the most secure, battle-tested and decentralized blockchain. And we are bringing decentralized finance to it." https://finance.yahoo.com/news/bitcoin-zero-knowledge-rol… https://www.nobsbitcoin.com/citrea-raises-2-7m/

Hello, what do you think limit on op_return should be?

Especially when it comes from Zionist.

It's important for Bitcoiners to build businesses that are resistant to VC corruption. Not easy. Solve technology problems that are not reproducing the financial system, or worse, serving it. Ones where we have natural advantage. Take minimal capital and no debt. Grow slowly at first, LTP. Still beat the Bitcoin hurdle rate. Real pure value delivery. Solid honest economics and win on value. It's tricky because most investment money in Bitcoin is still focused on financial use cases and outside Bitcoin there's no interest in anything that isn't corrupted by it. (Fiat businesses are scam first, value is incidental.) But I think there is a lot to do that threads this needle and grows real utility. Bitcoin-powered economics will create better everything, but I don't think Bitcoin investors or the builders are focused enough on creating ambitious businesses in this sweet spot where we can apply Bitcoin to tech outside of recreating finance. Mining in the energy space is big exception, and a strong example, but other than that nothing has broken out. V4V media is very promising but will take time. Privacy tech is probably the least mature and the most important. But the potential is huge and I think it's not getting the investment it deserves. Frankly, I don't think the investors are seeing the missed opportunity. The Bitcoin-powered economy can unlock massive value without all this corruption and outcompete fist junkware, but for lack of imagination we get endless shitcoining and the important stuff is floating in hobbie space. That's not to say some brilliant people are not working on it. We're just early. It's still like watching a caveman use a laptop to beat his dinner to death.

💯 Kratters recent video dissecting Jon Atacks talk at Plan B in El Salvador was so revealing. A must watch

This is why Bitcoin culture matters. VC money optimizes for growth curves. Bitcoin optimizes for rules. When incentives get weird, language follows. Nodes don’t debate philosophy — they just enforce the protocol.

The tell is linguistic. Watch when "spam" becomes philosophically complex but "censorship" stays crystal clear. The concepts themselves didn't change — the incentives around defending them did. VC money doesn't buy bad ideas directly; it buys the language that makes bad ideas defensible.