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@ Andrey Arapov
2025-05-25 17:29:50
You’re mistaking node policy for central planning.
There’s no single entity deciding what’s “monetary.” But individual node runners absolutely have the right to choose what they relay. That’s not authoritarianism — it’s sovereignty.
Bitcoin’s power lies in voluntary consensus — not passive acceptance of every valid-but-abusive transaction. The protocol sets the floor (what’s valid), not the ceiling (what’s acceptable).
And yes, steganography can hide data — but that’s not an argument to give up filtering entirely, it’s an argument to keep it tight where we can. OP_RETURN was introduced precisely to reduce harm from worse techniques — now we're removing the very policy that made it safe.
Fees alone don’t filter — MARA shows us that. They’ll take side deals, slip data in out-of-band, and treat consensus like a vending machine. That’s not freedom — that’s just working to rule all over again.
You call Knots a “fork of shitcoin” — but when you remove configurability from Core and call dissent authoritarian, ask yourself: who’s really trying to centralize?