Nine ideas for the surge in four weeks, each fixing what the one before it broke. Then the test ran: the cap was a fifth of the surge, the window paid the rest, and bitcoin's rule loses both directions, up and down.

THE ISSUE OF CHILD PORN ON THE SPAM CHAIN OF BITCOIN There is the claim that child porn and other disgusting, immoral, illegal, and repulse material might end up on the spam chain of Bitcoin. Child porn will absolutely and certainly get on the spam chain at some point. That is a certainty. Back in 2019 BSV blew up their op_return filter, exactly as core did in 2025. Within a week, the BSV chain got filled with child porn, and they did an emergency update the reinstate their op_return limit to stop the problem: Six years later, core had the brilliant idea to do exactly as BSV did, and they blew up their op_return filter. The question is not if, but when. And here are the most likely perpetrators: - Some pedo who doesn't want the legal risk to keep that filth on his own machine, so he dumps the risk on the 90,000 nodes. - Some shitcoiner who thinks this will pump his own coin. - Some whale trader who thinks his short position would profit greatly from the resulting bad press and drop in price. - Even someone on my side who wants to get the "told you so" giant foam finger from it. - But most likely a state level attacker who wants to reduce the number of nodes to further centralize the spam chain. Can you honestly tell me that all of the above suspects are improbable? I personally believe the 2019 BSV incident was a test run for what they were planning as a psyop on Bitcoin. It's important to understand that the nodes only recognize monetary transactions. That's why spam has had to use dust amounts of sats, fake pubkeys, fake scriphash, fake Segwit signatures, and other hacks to make their spam look like genuine monetary transactions. Because that's all the network was design to recognize - monetary transactions. But all that changed with core 30. Now your node looks at a transaction and says "This is not money, this is some random file that anyone in the world wants to store on my machine. And I must validate it, accept it, store it, and relay it until the end of time, for FREE."

Unbelievable. 3 hours later and the 10Y Note Yield is now above 5.20% for the first time in 19 years. The 10Y Note Yield is now up +50 basis points in 30 days and +30 basis points in 2 days. Even more remarkable is that the average American has no idea this is happening. Yet. The bond market is imploding in front of our eyes.

Finally @TwhitNub101 bent the knees and started implementing DATUM. This is exactly how bitcoin should FUNCTION. Miners/mining pools should be treated as an employees of the network and nothing else. Coretards and NPC bitcoiners can't even imagine this kind of mining decentralization pie chart. We still have a long way to go but bitcoin BLAKE2b's (aka bitcoin) future looks very promising at this point.

Neoxa Exchange has upgraded to Bitcoin Knots 29.4.2.knots20260508 in support of the temporary long coinbase maturity soft fork. At block 973,440 all coinbase (mined) outputs will require 6,480 confirmations before they can be spent, instead of the usual 100. What this means if you mine to your XBT deposit address: deposits of mined coin will take 6,480 confirmations to credit instead of 100. The window ends at block 979,920. Ordinary XBT transfers, trading and withdrawals are completely unaffected.

Network notice · Knots 29.4.2 soft fork From block 973440 (~22 Sep) to 979920 (~5 Nov) every newly mined coinbase must wait 45 days before it can be spent, instead of 100 blocks. It is temporary, and it exists to make hit-and-run mining unprofitable and give miners who stay an edge. Payouts, shares and the split do not change; coins from those blocks just unlock at block 979920 (make-goods too). Lazarus supports it and our nodes switch at block 973400. DATUM gateway operators run their own node, so the choice is yours: to support it, run Knots 29.4.2 before block 973440.

AlphaPool is a fucking psychopath. He will hide and look "normal" until he senses enough weakness to do a lot of destructive crazy shit and potentially destroy himself and XBT at the same time. If you live in a world where everyone has to be given the benefit of the doubt, you will be contributing to the ultimate destruction of XBT. Don't you people ever learn? Actually, I know the answer is no. Many people would break if they knew how many psychopaths are jerking their strings and are a significant part of why the world is how it is today. Or do you think we got into this mess because everyone is so good natured? Consensus only makes sense in a setting without psychopaths, anti-socials and others who are part of a community. Without community, there is no Bitcoin. People need to learn the first principles of Bitcoin. Community first. Be careful who you let in. Consensus second. I think it is time for Satoshi to be revisited and learned as he wanted to be known, and examine what went wrong, and why. Mystifying Satoshi and Bitcoin has been a psy op from the beginning from those with an intent to make it smaller than what it should be, and much more easily capturable. QED @LukeDashjr @mattkratter @1914ad @WilliamSantiago @SteveW928 @EternalFunShine @SpectrGen @Anton_Bitcoin @CcMyfeelings @CaminaDrummer4 @cguida6