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 BITCOIN HAS A BRILLIANT SPAM MECHANISM: TRANSACTION FEES. 
 
 Spammers need to pay like everyone else.  Bitcoin doesn't use white blood cells, or any cells, so it'll be fine. 
 There is no 'the mempool'.  Every node has its own mempool.  Spammers will pay to play like everyone else.   
 Check their open source and see if it contains any of Bitcoin's core code.  That'll tell you all you need to know. 
 Their plan literally is to crash society so they can “rebuild” with a CBDC. 

#Bitcoin preven... 
 Their Swift system is open to attacks, so I can't see them implementing cbdcs any more secure.  The digital Sand dollar is a cbdc which can still be exchanged for Bitcoin.  Personally, I'm not worried. 
 Tonight, my wife nostr:npub17meshv2lg6rfyuwzgh349yslllq7aathd55xu0jgjns2ayz6rt2seplm8u said somet... 
 Faith is a human construct meant to soothe those who do not or can not trust others.  That is the whole point of Bitcoin.  Faith is not required.   
 RIGHT, YOU ARE JUST STEALING FROM PEOPLE! 
 Just block it and it'll go away. 
 You are arguing with a bot, which is dumb.  So block the bot and it goes away.  Is that more helpful?  You sound a little manic, so maybe you need more help than I can provide.   
 Nope.  I don't know who Jack is.  Bots learn from interaction with humans and arguing with one is as meaningless as talking to one.  Shit in the background, from a bot, is no different than white nosie.  White noise stems from cosmic background radiation, but I don't converse with the universe and neither does Jack,

You do you though.  Good luck. 
 Hope that was helpful for you.  You seem extremely intelligent and I wish you the best. 
 #Monero seems to be a hedge against #Bitcoin getting completely cucked.

I don't #Monero, but I c... 
 Bitcoin's usage has always been as private as the person using it.  And the censorship issues involve bitcoin knots which is not Bitcoin.  The Knot's datacarrier setting is filtering large transactions and can't tell the difference between coinjoins and ordinals.  Maybe read up on the issues before you say nonsensical things.  

Bitcoin is not being censored, and privacy is on the user. 
 It's a tale as old as time.  One side wants to use something for their purpose and another side wants to use something for its intended purpose.  Add another side and you get an eye on top of a pyramid.  I say let the rabbits wear glasses. 
 Wait.. isn’t consolidating UTXO’s a form a centralization? 🧐 
 Nope. 
 Consolidating utxo's is more akin to moving cash from old physical wallets to a new wallet.  Or taking change (coins) to coinstar to get paper money and then putting it in a physical wallet.  

It sounds weird because typically no one carries multiple wallets on their person but change (coins) require a centralized service to convert back into paper.  Bitcoin doesn't need a third party to accomplish this, 
 Just a reminder for everyone.  Bitcoin's use of sha256, mining, is not for encrypting anything.  There is no cracking, breaking, or decrypting anything the miners do to win a block.  

Stop listening to idiots tell you a.i. could break this because that is not how Bitcoin uses sha256.

The concern would be using sha256 to hash your password, or any sensitive data used as an input.  But that has nothing to do with Bitcoin mining.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/18dowmw/ai_could_break_bitcoinsha256/ 
 That comes from an SNL celebrity jeopardy joke.   
 When did you become a radical?  

Before or after #bitcoin? 
 Birth, bitcoin gave me the tools to age. 
 That sweet pink smoke.  Perfection. 
 The replies here are crazy. Mom, Pop, and two kids getting hit by McDonald's for $30. You used to... 
 Boycott and bring back the 2 for 5 sausage McMuffin.  With our powers combined we can be full until lunchtime. 
 We made a mistake not fighting harder for NetNeutrality. Fight harder for stuff like this. nostr:... 
 Some fight harder with votes some fight harder with code.  We should probably call each other but I hate talking on the phone. 
 I don't even know what that is, but thank you for your service. 
 That looks good.  Good cook. 
 If you can bite through the skin without pulling it all off, it'll taste like bacon.  And that looks like bacon, even though it's chicken. 
 CMV: The most fun is had when pretending to be who you aren’t 
 Sounds like a long way of saying, acting.   
 Nostr Search will be 100x bigger than Google Search 
 Pretty sure people said the same about bitcoin.  Leaders create great things and walk away.  Followers try to fix it. 
 That will never get to be an actual pothole.   
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 I don't believe you. 
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 But don't forget, some find it more than worthwhile to steal what you worked so hard for.  I've been in circles where that is considered the smart way of doing business.   
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 Not my first or my last.  No one is perfect.