Daniel Ƀrrr
@csuwildcat
Director, Product @ Proof. Previous: Gemini, Block, started decentralized identity @ Microsoft, fought for the Web @ Mozilla. Libertarian 🗽
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@lukedewolf @adam3us Email is a horrible analogy for blocking spam in a decentralized protocol, b/c it's a centralized system w/ blocking based on IP/domain behavioral scoring, sender blacklists, and subjective, invasive content scanning. Ironically, it's a good analogy for the path 110ers are taking
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@gvictor808 @stephanlivera @adam3us Doesn't matter, all tree/script depth limitations do is force them to spread their embedded data across more transactions. Fundamentally, in any decentralized system that relies on collectively stored public keys and hashes, you cannot meaningfully interdict spam of those values.
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While one hundred and ten people were having a tantrum on Twitter about silly monkey NFT spam that's already burning itself out organically, Bitcoin Core sped up sync time by a third doing hard work that actually helps node runners.
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Imagine a decentralized system billed as censorship/sybil resistant with 360 million people relying on it, but its protocol rules can be forcibly changed if just 0.0014% of them run a different software version. This is what BIP-110ers genuinely believe, many without realizing it
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@adam3us @rleder Simple lies and grand promises that fanciful fixes can solve intractable issues and make alcolytes into heroes are a powerful elixir for those given to belief in comfortable narratives over uncomfortable truths.
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Me citing Luke's recent declaration that he'll initiate a POW-change hard fork in the likely event 110 fails to gain sufficient economic node adoption, whenever people say "But 110 won't be a hard fork":
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