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nostr.build | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +4 
 I’m not deciding, I’ll let the free market decide if it’s a bug or exploit. If so they will fix the code. If not, we have to deal with this. 
My ‘opinion’ is Bitcoin was designed as a financial instrument to store and transfer value, not to host jpgs for sale.. I never said anything about censoring?!?
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dr.fred | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 it was clearly designed as a p2p cash system
not as a funny picture system

most people cannot think normally any more
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Swoleden Caulfield ⚡ | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 It was designed as a distributed database, initially with the intent of being p2p cash, yes. Satoshi originally included a lot of other functionality though. The reality is that the base chain was never going to be able to scale to meet mass adoption without a large increase in block size. Attempts to appease people who pushed the p2p cash narrative led us down the segwit route, which brings us again to the current "problem". Block space on a network of value (for any type of data) is valuable--you being able to purchase a coffee on chain appears to currently have less value than a dickbutt jpg.
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dr.fred | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 in short: 
it has nothing to do with satoshi any more
no privacy
no electronic p2p cash system
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Swoleden Caulfield ⚡ | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 My apologies then. We'll see if there will be network consensus that defends that vision of bitcoin.