(Videos are below) This is starting to look really purposeful, captured Bitcoin Core not fixing the Taproot bugs that fueled years of SPAM and blowing up the UTXO set, then blowing up OP_RETURN to 100k to make node runners hold non-transactional data forever. Now Big Bitcoin and OCGFC funds managing trillions are showing their hand in financing captured devs to “secure Bitcoin”, but to really make it an abomination and further limit regular folks running nodes, as the regular folks (Plebs) running Bitcoin nodes are the last defense against their takeover. And currently real Bitcoiners are fighting this takeover with BIP-110 to eliminate much of the SPAM, and I’m not opposed Miner resistance forking the blockchain, where Luke DashJr does a hard fork after to lower the difficulty adjustment allowing true Bitcoiners to continue on with Bitcoin Knots clients, using our mining equipment and leaving the corporate interests to have their corrupt version of Bitcoin. There should come a point to split your holdings on both platforms, then liquidate the corrupt version growing your holding in real Bitcoin, and it would be interesting to see where prices go afterwards. Will most of the world abandon the corrupted version like their last attempt that forked to Bitcoin Cash? We’d then be able to do some real enhancements to further protect the real Bitcoin from SPAM, then lower block size making node running achievable for everyone for a long time…
Side note: as a protest not only am I running BIP-110 with Bitcoin Knots on my nodes (Main Raspberry Pi 5 and backup Dell PowerEdge Server), but I set my nodes to reject SPAM and all OP_RETURN transactions. So I won’t hold them in my mempool, only downloading them after they’re included in a block. And my bandwidth usage dropped significantly from when I ran Core and was transmitting that trash around to other nodes…
This is worth including too.