Oddbean

I'm pretty sure whatever is being frown upon has already been inscripted into bitcoin. If govt want to bend over backwards to ban bitcoin they can use any reasons but inscriptions will not be the real reasons. While I think Ordinals and inscriptions are retarded, they are quite irrelevant as a real threat. Most likely they will slowly fade away. Those cheapskate inscriptors are so cheap, they are paying only 1sat/vb to line up in the mempool.

It's not about "maybe its there and its irrelevant , let's forget about, small matter for now". It can become a very large and messy matter in no time. and permanent damage. Because it is similar to saying - " yes i'm mining bitcoin - that block with children getting raped" or "yes, i am using bitcoins as money - that same bitcoin which that has permanent pictures and videos of thousands of child porns - kids that will be forever haunted" Of course gov'ts will find a million reasons not to want bitcoin. Why hand them a free pass =)

It's like one cannot stop the sale of camera because someone can use it to take child porn. A permissionless network also meant it cannot be stopped. Since Satoshi time, text and pic can be inscripted into the blockchain. They only make it easier to do now. Further, bad inscriptions are already there now. For excuse purposes, they only need one pic to call it illegal. There are probably some insults to some kings and prophets too. The boat has sailed. Inscriptions while retarded are perfectly valid transactions. The bitcoin blockchain makes no value judgement on transactions.

it's not permanent as 51% can make the change. If anything, its democratic and pushes for a larger conversation to happen, ideally and naturally I don't think Bitcoin is a screw you, too bad, done deal lol. Bitcoin doesn't work that way. It shouldn't. I remember reading in one of Satoshi's mail on leaving it to the people to determine the best way hence I don't think he is authoritarian. You can capture child porn and nobody can stop you, but i do not want you to permanently inscribed it into Bitcoin block that I want as a global adoption of money. It's 2 different action I would also not equate child rape and freedom of expression under other the same banner. But as I said, there are many alternatives to having a undisturbed freedom of speech - the side chains/ nth layers, nostr relays etc. But it should not be on the main Bitcoin Blockchain if the goal is for Bitcoin as global monetary adoption / global reserve

you do realise there has been numerous upgrade to bitcoin over time ie taproot etc - and its not a one time deal right ? There's also that 51% of those who control the hashrate bit ? What do you think the bitcoin core developers do ? sit down and shake their legs ? lol rock on dude!

Taproot was activated with ovee 90% consensus and it is a softfork. 51% cannot get it done. Don't confuse the theoretical 51% attacked by mining hashrate. There are not the same thing. I'm 99.99% sure what you are proposing will not get consensus for a reverse fork.

From the exchanges i've had with you in the past - you disagree going against gov't's bad actions, you think JFK should not have spoken against CIA, that we should just sit down and absorb the challenges without retaliating. I respect your opinion but I have very different opinion from you. I'm a fighter and a survivor. Even if its a 0.001% chance to you, for me its important enough to talk about it. We will not be seeing this eye to eye. But I am going to respect you and leave the conversation here. You are welcome to go around and shoot the idea down with every other conversations as well. Its up to people on what they believe in. Its up to you what you believe in.

You must have mistaken me with someone else. I've no opinion on JFK and the CIA. Oh, you definitely should fight for this even and I am hope you win. My point it to let you know 51% cannot make it happen. You need 90% consensus and some real technical genius to help you stop inscription without destroying taproot and bitcoin in the process. It's for this reason that I think 99.99% cannot be done.

Oh.. that's not opinion on JFK whether he should say something or not. I meant there are consequences. Anyone holding power as President but don't wanna go to war will likely pay a high price. Some higher than others.