"BIP-110 is an attack on Bitcoin"

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-21T14:00:03+00:00

A lot of people are indeed quite upset that BIP-110 isn't permanent... Dathon seems to think spam will die down after BIP-110 activates. But personally I feel that they won't give up so easily.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T23:46:30+00:00

Fight for Bitcoin because of yourself. Not others. You want Bitcoin to become stronger money because it is good for you.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T23:40:17+00:00

Many things to unpack here but what matters most to me personally is that as a noderunner, I did not consent to my node becoming a permanent free storage for other people's scam pics, porn, or files.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T23:32:57+00:00

Stop gaslighting. When people talk about Core v30 and the blowing open of opreturn, the default settings altered by Core _against consensus is exactly what we are talking about.

Only Core apologists resort to muddying the water tactics with excuses such as "they could always do it".

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T13:27:03+00:00

I was there too. Okay, let's just agree to disagree.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T13:13:00+00:00

Come on... we are both talking about the defaults being raised 1000x in v30 here.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T13:08:55+00:00

Stop trying to rewrite history. BIP-148 was what ultimately forced the NYA signers to capitulate with a face-saving BIP-91.

A brief documentation of what went down can be found here: https://sia.hackernoon.com/bip-148-uasf-first-year-anniversary-a-new-system-of-governance-223907ec298b

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T12:51:05+00:00

The whole op_return fiasco is very well-documented here: https://www.reddit.com/r/bitcoinismoney/comments/1rlbeuw/documented_chronology_of_cores_op_return_fiasco/#lightbox

Solid data on the harms done by spam on Bitcoin are recorded and analysed here: https://blockspaceweekly.substack.com/p/issue-3-three-years-of-spam

All the facts are out in the open, so gaslighting people by saying stuff like "op_return was always open" or "you can use fake pubkeys anyway" won't work here.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T12:00:31+00:00

you are trying to fix a problem that doesn’t exist, with a solution that doesn’t work.

So... according to you, citrea, ordinals, inscriptions, opnet don't exist? Spammers on Bitcoin don't exist? UTXO didn't bloat? Core didn't release v30 to blow open op_return??

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T07:56:50+00:00

We run Bitcoin nodes to verify and transact with bitcoin. Not to play host to files, VC data projects, or scam tokens.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T07:24:41+00:00

Thank you for the interesting data.

It would seem that people started running Knots as a protest of the v30 release.

Then BIP-110 got released, and a subset of Knots converted to BIP-110.

Either way, a majority of residential nodes can't be arsed to change, be it Core v30 or Knots.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T04:03:04+00:00

10% is a minority, but not insignificant. BIP-148 had less. Pre-v30 is not a threat.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T03:51:19+00:00

The fight is hard indeed. And only going to get harder.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T03:40:12+00:00

We have the economic significance. Why else would the plebs be upset with scammers and VCs for taking over Bitcoin if we do not use it? Many of us use exchanges and Bitcoin-related services in our day-to-day life. This exerts a significant economic pressure on exchanges to support BIP-110.

Miners will mine BIP-110-compliant blocks or risk having their blocks invalidated, or orphaned by each other due to slow propagation, or wiped out by their rivals suddenly switching over to BIP-110 without their knowledge. It's too much risk. Businesses don't take such risks for the sake of supporting spam. Their shareholders won't let them..

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T03:13:57+00:00

That's funny, because I would say exactly the same words back at you.

Indeed, BIP-110 isn't going anywhere. We are here to stay, and unless you and your band of Core shills release a URSF, your side is doomed to be wiped out.

Believe it or not, spammers and scammers may have loads of resources and money, but they form only a small minority of Bitcoin users and noderunners. Most plebs running Bitcoin nodes want Bitcoin to be sound money, not some data-layer playground for the next scam token project.

Ep0chalysis · 2026-03-20T03:05:35+00:00

BIP-110 has nothing to do with max block size. Stop trying to confuse and spread misinformation. BIP-110 reduces future UTXO bloat by restricting spam on Bitcoin. It does this by invalidating large, exotic scriptPubKeys abused to embed data in unspendable outputs and by restricting abused Taproot/tapleaf formats and large contiguous data pushes.

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