Core-enabled NFTard spammer Leonidas is threatening to fork Bitcoin Core if Bitcoin Core stops the CSAM-enabling v30 upgrade, because that would go against his shitcoin pump-and-dump printing business:

https://x.com/LeonidasNFT/status/1964225563725291732

Here's a recording from the man himself, fuming at the idea of their pump-and-dump business being threatened:

https://x.com/_Hugo_Ramos_/status/1965701210662752567

"Im backed by a lot of economical actors". Economical actors = VC shitcoin pump and dumpers. This is the type of trash that this non-monetary circus on the blockchain is platforming.

Of course, this guy is irrelevant, but it just shows the true nature of these people in a practical manner.

And now Bitcoin Core version 30 is going to enable, not only all this dogshit spam on the network, which is already making it impossible to sync a full node properly (with assumevalid=0 and with a computer that doesn't have NSAware enabled on it, aka a computer that allows Coreboot) but basically illegal content, giving governments the perfect excuse to ban BTC when they decide to do so:

https://x.com/LukeDashjr/status/1965539551117472174


What's sad is, this was predicted by Pieter Wuille (and others, with better vision than Wuille, which were already not "in the middle") more than 10 years ago:



And now it's happening. What is Core doing? Nothing, pretending like it's not a big deal, and trying to come up with some convoluted explanation as to why "filters are bad" and this and that, while allowing nodes to host garbage while resorting to logical fallacies.

The only rational explanation is that a lot of people are being paid big time by these same VC's that are making a killing from pump and dumping shitcoins.

No one of them has ever synced a node. They don't grasp the concept of an open source bios. They don't care that you will have to download CSAM to sync a node. They don't care that this incentivizes pruning even more which means less copies of the full blockchain hosted out there by decentralized parties. And beside pruning not being a safe way to run a node because it promotes this lack of copies of the full blockchain across time, that is, a bad habit, it will not save you from having downloaded CSAM during the initial blockchain download.

There is literally nothing positive about any of this. Core is doing nothing, and looks like all we got is Knots, which gives you the optional tools to stop this (which assorted shitcoiners and VC-paid "devs" are trying to paint as something that is "imposed", when the only thing imposed here is garbage being forced into the blockchain by $fiat pump and dumpers). Knots is peer reviewed by several parties and signed by them, and if you want to contribute you can become a dev.

We have to stop this at all costs. Trying to sync a node recently after years from scratch has been a good practical experience of this. You get a real feel of the status of the blockchain and you can see how around when the non-monetary circus started the verification of blocks starts taking ages and your CPU will get punished, which forces you to use a modern (NSAwared) computer to host the node. There used to be no problems when syncing a full node in a Corebooted laptop and now it's basically going to make your CPU fried. This is terrorism against proper Bitcoin nodes, let alone the other problems explained here. You are giving governments the perfect excuse to ban BTC when they need to, because this mirage of a "politically-friendly" Bitcoin Whitehouse is just that, a temporary thing (run by ironically, shitcoin grifters too, but that try to side with BTC, just like orditards do) but when these are out of the government and you get an AOC type, they are going to ban the hell out of BTC and the CSAM argument will be perfect for that. I will not be responsible to contribute into things going into this direction.