Bitcoin’s Big Fork Dilemma: Will It Bite Back? 🐍💸

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Luke Dashjr, the self-proclaimed ‘Bitcoin Sorcerer,’ conjures a hard fork to banish illicit data-while the Bitcoin Core crowd throws a hissy fit. 🧙♂️💥

Luke Dashjr, Bitcoin Knots’ most prolific code-wizard, has unleashed chaos with leaked scrolls (yes, scrolls!) revealing his plan to fork the blockchain. Why? To purge “naughty data” like Child Sexual Abuse Material (CSAM), which he insists is lurking in Bitcoin nodes like gremlins in a digital playground. 🧙♂️🧹

Bitcoin Knots, Dashjr’s node implementation, already tries to ban non-money spam from its mempool. But when Bitcoin Core raised data size limits, the two factions clashed like cats and dogs (or, more accurately, like cats and blockchains). 🐾⛓️

Dashjr’s team argues non-money transactions are “spam” (a word they probably invented) and demands a “filtering army” to guard the network. His latest scroll suggests forming a “multisig quorum”-a committee of wizards who can retroactively edit the blockchain. They’ll swap “offensive data” with zero-knowledge proofs, letting nodes delete evil stuff without breaking anything. 🪄✨

Source: The Rage

Dashjr admits this is a “doomsday choice”: either kill Bitcoin or trust a committee. Oh, and they’ll need a hard fork to make it work. Classic fairy tale logic: “Trust a group of humans to save a system built to avoid trusting humans.” 🤯

But wait! Bitcoin purists are screaming. A committee editing blockchains? That’s like letting a squirrel run a nuclear reactor. If nodes delete data on the committee’s say-so, they might end up in jail-or worse, complying with KYC/AML rules. Decentralized? Please. This is centralized censorship oozing into the blockchain’s pure, decentralized heart. 💔

Critics warn the committee might delete more than just “bad stuff”-maybe transaction data they dislike. Sounds like a recipe for a digital dictatorship, doesn’t it? 🚨

Dashjr’s plan has sparked a Twitter storm fiercer than a crypto bear market. Miners, policymakers, and node operators are arguing like squabbling trolls. But here’s the kicker: Dashjr denies it all, calling the leaks “groundless lies.” Too bad the scrolls are real-and his mining pool, OCEAN, is now “not associated with censorship letters.” Ever heard of a wizard who can’t control their own magic? 🧙♂️🔥

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2025-09-27 21:11