+- jack mallers -- 1d --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Mailbag Monday: Live from the Bitcoin Conference | | | | unfortunately, I am in Vegas and this place is gross. however, why we are all here is not gross. fix the money, fix | | the world. we must keep building despite the noise. | | | | big week for me on many many fronts. this week certainly won’t be boring, i can tell you that. today’s episode will | | be much shorter, i unfortunately don’t have the time, but come hang out if you’re online. going live in a few | | minutes | | | | https://www.youtube.com/live/UIxVClSGjSw?si=eRQ5PBlX4i3_JxoN | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Mailbag Monday: Live from the Bitcoin Conference unfortunately, I am in Vegas and this place is gross. however, why we are all here is not gross. fix the money, fix the world. we must keep building despite the noise. big week for me on many many fronts. this week certainly won’t be boring, i can tell you that. today’s episode will be much shorter, i unfortunately don’t have the time, but come hang out if you’re online. going live in a few minutes https://www.youtube.com/live/UIxVClSGjSw?si=eRQ5PBlX4i3_JxoN
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+- jack mallers -- 8d --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | 🫂 | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+🫂
+- jack mallers -- 8d --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | is the ceasefire still on? | | | | so much back and forth it’s like a DDoS on our well being. | | | | bitcoin is up, war is still on, and volatility is down? | | | | who the fuck knows man. stay humble and stack. | | | | going live now: https://www.youtube.com/live/F_tHjEWyF5Y?si=7R9fliJNjpFxypaX | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+is the ceasefire still on? so much back and forth it’s like a DDoS on our well being. bitcoin is up, war is still on, and volatility is down? who the fuck knows man. stay humble and stack. going live now: https://www.youtube.com/live/F_tHjEWyF5Y?si=7R9fliJNjpFxypaX
+- Bitcoin Archive -- 12d ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | {"id":"fa5e5a2f7d329226d758392ad20451f2f6b6964ba521c4318410f4b70c7535ee","pubkey":"bb90e7f0531d4abaa39ff85091577434f | | b6fd3aff9cfb8da275199e241eb4eff","content":"Great chat on @Bitcoin Archive with Archie. Always love hanging | | out.\n\nA good friend of mine once said to me, “how do you operate in an adult world, you are so small?”\n\n…well, | | here’s the answer.\n\nThanks to Charlie for finding me a footstool, aka a | | box.\nhttps:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/1d697d14ce9e61898003dca5ce92f3a67d2b041eab3a51e9dde15c53d286747c.jpg","sig":"fcf | | aaca2fb28086ef7b671c37d512d84921ab9ea9a20042a557dc1b81e95fa8dc0a2681eec95ec521b981caf18f3611d66acbc2714874481e932779 | | beba9b2bb","kind":1,"tags":[["p","a5e93aef8e820cbc7ab7b6205f854b87aed4b48c5f6b30fbbeba5c99e40dcf3f","","mention"],[" | | imeta","url https:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/1d697d14ce9e61898003dca5ce92f3a67d2b041eab3a51e9dde15c53d286747c.jpg","m | | jpeg","dim 2048.0x1556.0"]],"created_at":1776324901} | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+{"id":"fa5e5a2f7d329226d758392ad20451f2f6b6964ba521c4318410f4b70c7535ee","pubkey":"bb90e7f0531d4abaa39ff85091577434fb6fd3aff9cfb8da275199e241eb4eff","content":"Great chat on @Bitcoin Archive with Archie. Always love hanging out.\n\nA good friend of mine once said to me, “how do you operate in an adult world, you are so small?”\n\n…well, here’s the answer.\n\nThanks to Charlie for finding me a footstool, aka a box.\nhttps:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/1d697d14ce9e61898003dca5ce92f3a67d2b041eab3a51e9dde15c53d286747c.jpg","sig":"fcfaaca2fb28086ef7b671c37d512d84921ab9ea9a20042a557dc1b81e95fa8dc0a2681eec95ec521b981caf18f3611d66acbc2714874481e932779beba9b2bb","kind":1,"tags":[["p","a5e93aef8e820cbc7ab7b6205f854b87aed4b48c5f6b30fbbeba5c99e40dcf3f","","mention"],["imeta","url https:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/1d697d14ce9e61898003dca5ce92f3a67d2b041eab3a51e9dde15c53d286747c.jpg","m jpeg","dim 2048.0x1556.0"]],"created_at":1776324901} Great chat on @Bitcoin Archive with Archie. Always love hanging out. A good friend of mine once said to me, “how do you operate in an adult world, you are so small?” …well, here’s the answer. Thanks to Charlie for finding me a footstool, aka a box. https://blossom.primal.net/1d697d14ce9e61898003dca5ce92f3a67d2b041eab3a51e9dde15c53d286747c.jpg
+- jack mallers -- 15d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | 🫡 | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+🫡
+- jack mallers -- 15d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | more nonsense from governments and media last week. a ceasefire that wasn’t actually a ceasefire and the strait even | | more closed than it was? | | | | i’m tired of talking about these clowns. more interestingly, the US Government and the Fed called the Banks in for | | an emergency meeting. | | | | there simply isn’t enough credit floating around in the filthy fiat financial system. thy printer shall commence. | | | | going live in 5 minutes | | | | https://www.youtube.com/live/579ICwLanUI?si=FrxpPuR_Yw1KT2_y | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+more nonsense from governments and media last week. a ceasefire that wasn’t actually a ceasefire and the strait even more closed than it was? i’m tired of talking about these clowns. more interestingly, the US Government and the Fed called the Banks in for an emergency meeting. there simply isn’t enough credit floating around in the filthy fiat financial system. thy printer shall commence. going live in 5 minutes https://www.youtube.com/live/579ICwLanUI?si=FrxpPuR_Yw1KT2_y
+- jack mallers -- 18d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | still can’t verify myself yet, but have on pretty good authority bitcoin is in fact being used as reported | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+still can’t verify myself yet, but have on pretty good authority bitcoin is in fact being used as reported
+- jack mallers -- 21d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | true. i will be clear about this next episode | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+true. i will be clear about this next episode
+- jack mallers -- 21d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | what? they couldn’t be more different lol | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1 reply] ---+what? they couldn’t be more different lol
+- jack mallers -- 22d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | we were right. now what? | | | | the strait is still closed. oil is spiking. stagflation seems to be back. | | | | now what? | | | | who knows. gonna go live in a few minutes and scream in my empty closet tho | | | | https://www.youtube.com/live/lh1ij0ScKfA?si=Li_ciOJTG-YTmXFY | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+we were right. now what? the strait is still closed. oil is spiking. stagflation seems to be back. now what? who knows. gonna go live in a few minutes and scream in my empty closet tho https://www.youtube.com/live/lh1ij0ScKfA?si=Li_ciOJTG-YTmXFY
+- jack -- 23d ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | bitchat pulled from china app store | | https://blossom.primal.net/6d1f5304a85f6ccd6af01a7db43da50688636822df7a38af31ef5f66457c6b77.png | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1 reply] ---+bitchat pulled from china app store https://blossom.primal.net/6d1f5304a85f6ccd6af01a7db43da50688636822df7a38af31ef5f66457c6b77.png
+- jack mallers -- 29d -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | They're Lying. Again. | | | | "Talks going well". Hormuz is still closed. Week 5. | | | | They lied about COVID. They lied about DOGE. Now they're lying about Iran. | | | | Markets either scare you out or wear you out. Don’t let it. Stay humble and stack sats. | | | | Going live in a few. | | | | https://www.youtube.com/live/rQ21FHpcOnY?si=Vs7sSVJSCL-OUhf0 | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+They're Lying. Again. "Talks going well". Hormuz is still closed. Week 5. They lied about COVID. They lied about DOGE. Now they're lying about Iran. Markets either scare you out or wear you out. Don’t let it. Stay humble and stack sats. Going live in a few. https://www.youtube.com/live/rQ21FHpcOnY?si=Vs7sSVJSCL-OUhf0
+- hodlonaut -- 1mo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | CAPTURE | | | | An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and | | defended. | | | | Article One: The Network | | | | https://www.citadel21.com/the-network | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1 reply] ---+CAPTURE An investigation across four articles into how informal power over Bitcoin Core was assembled, exercised, and defended. Article One: The Network https://www.citadel21.com/the-network
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | taxes are such bullshit | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+taxes are such bullshit
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | 🫡 | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+🫡
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | we live in the best timeline. | | | | Trump says he’s working on a deal, Iran says he’s full of shit. Bond markets getting fragile, stock market looks | | terrible, and bitcoin is up over 30% against gold since the conflict started? the print is coming. matter of when at | | this point. | | | | blessed to be alive, healthy, and building right now. going live in 15 minutes. | | | | https://www.youtube.com/live/37LFbhjVNy0?si=OO6TtWgC9nDAhq26 | | | +-- reply ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ [1 reply] ---+we live in the best timeline. Trump says he’s working on a deal, Iran says he’s full of shit. Bond markets getting fragile, stock market looks terrible, and bitcoin is up over 30% against gold since the conflict started? the print is coming. matter of when at this point. blessed to be alive, healthy, and building right now. going live in 15 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/live/37LFbhjVNy0?si=OO6TtWgC9nDAhq26
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | survive and advance. | | | | duke sent my heart rate to obese las vegas slot machine junky levels, but we find a way and move on 😈 | | | | any march madness on nostr? | | https://blossom.primal.net/9e76667f2c172ac68bb6c0e9ad0197f48df69295eb6d2df7411fe9e038477d7a.jpg | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+survive and advance. duke sent my heart rate to obese las vegas slot machine junky levels, but we find a way and move on 😈 any march madness on nostr? https://blossom.primal.net/9e76667f2c172ac68bb6c0e9ad0197f48df69295eb6d2df7411fe9e038477d7a.jpg
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | these are so good. thank you! | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+these are so good. thank you!
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | {"created_at":1773930059,"content":"YOOOOO, once again shoutout to @jack mallers!!⚡\nHave you watched this week’s | | Mailbag Monday? I found this one especially interesting, sounds like things could get tough in the coming months. | | \nTake a look at this recap and let me know what you think! \n\nAs last time, watch the full show each week on | | youtube, \"THE JACK MALLERS SHOW\" (link in the | | comments)\n\nhttps:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/fbd19beeecb157267b0ebdfe0c916c7dea506f043fa40a14fc23ecea6837dfc7.mp4 | | ","kind":1,"sig":"8e3245f5774b54eca0481f144fbb529d750e1fd7bc40ddef96339045e458105478de1cc609b5f7153325b17501e8db7868 | | f4213a688dd1ef157f4d56160af85b","pubkey":"4bae93303604880a72cb13c9c39dca4a27f49090f7a22304b1655bdc915be3a8","id":"1e | | 1f57ab47c87d66e843e4be7a08ad0adc415c66a96ebba08acfa7ed76b450c4","tags":[["p","c4eabae1be3cf657bc1855ee05e69de9f059cb | | 7a059227168b80b89761cbc4e0","wss:\/\/nos.lol","mention"],["r","wss:\/\/nos.lol\/"],["r","wss:\/\/lang.relays.land\/p | | t"],["r","wss:\/\/relay.primal.net\/"],["r","wss:\/\/nos.lol\/%20"],["r","wss:\/\/santo.iguanatech.net\/"],["imeta", | | "url https:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/fbd19beeecb157267b0ebdfe0c916c7dea506f043fa40a14fc23ecea6837dfc7.mp4","m | | video\/mp4","dim 1280x720","duration 390.016009","bitrate 571243.4640086787","service nip96"],["client","Primal | | Web"]]} | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+{"created_at":1773930059,"content":"YOOOOO, once again shoutout to @jack mallers!!⚡\nHave you watched this week’s Mailbag Monday? I found this one especially interesting, sounds like things could get tough in the coming months. \nTake a look at this recap and let me know what you think! \n\nAs last time, watch the full show each week on youtube, \"THE JACK MALLERS SHOW\" (link in the comments)\n\nhttps:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/fbd19beeecb157267b0ebdfe0c916c7dea506f043fa40a14fc23ecea6837dfc7.mp4 ","kind":1,"sig":"8e3245f5774b54eca0481f144fbb529d750e1fd7bc40ddef96339045e458105478de1cc609b5f7153325b17501e8db7868f4213a688dd1ef157f4d56160af85b","pubkey":"4bae93303604880a72cb13c9c39dca4a27f49090f7a22304b1655bdc915be3a8","id":"1e1f57ab47c87d66e843e4be7a08ad0adc415c66a96ebba08acfa7ed76b450c4","tags":[["p","c4eabae1be3cf657bc1855ee05e69de9f059cb7a059227168b80b89761cbc4e0","wss:\/\/nos.lol","mention"],["r","wss:\/\/nos.lol\/"],["r","wss:\/\/lang.relays.land\/pt"],["r","wss:\/\/relay.primal.net\/"],["r","wss:\/\/nos.lol\/%20"],["r","wss:\/\/santo.iguanatech.net\/"],["imeta","url https:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/fbd19beeecb157267b0ebdfe0c916c7dea506f043fa40a14fc23ecea6837dfc7.mp4","m video\/mp4","dim 1280x720","duration 390.016009","bitrate 571243.4640086787","service nip96"],["client","Primal Web"]]} YOOOOO, once again shoutout to @jack mallers!!⚡ Have you watched this week’s Mailbag Monday? I found this one especially interesting, sounds like things could get tough in the coming months. Take a look at this recap and let me know what you think! As last time, watch the full show each week on youtube, "THE JACK MALLERS SHOW" (link in the comments) https://blossom.primal.net/fbd19beeecb157267b0ebdfe0c916c7dea506f043fa40a14fc23ecea6837dfc7.mp4
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | nice to meet you bro! | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+nice to meet you bro!
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | great overview. worth the 6 minutes | | note:5cb10602…b01c | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+great overview. worth the 6 minutes note:5cb10602…b01c
+- hodlonaut -- 1mo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | Spent some time researching this | | nostr:naddr1qq0xx6t5wfjkzttpdejz6argv5kk7uzlwfjhgatjdckh2mnrv9cqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wspzp3ya22jhxdn8 | | j2u6dey9zkru9qzzlvj05439cmt8hry4ep634js4qvzqqqr4guxg3g0q | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+Spent some time researching this nostr:naddr1qq0xx6t5wfjkzttpdejz6argv5kk7uzlwfjhgatjdckh2mnrv9cqz9nhwden5te0wfjkccte9ec8y6tdv9kzumn9wspzp3ya22jhxdn8j2u6dey9zkru9qzzlvj05439cmt8hry4ep634js4qvzqqqr4guxg3g0q
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | oil fully retraced a massive sunday night move. AI continues to threaten jobs. we are watching a geopolitical poker | | game in real time. | | | | the only rule is that there are no rules. | | | | going live in a few | | | | https://www.youtube.com/live/gaQwwT8Gjx0?si=jsNfE7UQTkspD26K | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+oil fully retraced a massive sunday night move. AI continues to threaten jobs. we are watching a geopolitical poker game in real time. the only rule is that there are no rules. going live in a few https://www.youtube.com/live/gaQwwT8Gjx0?si=jsNfE7UQTkspD26K
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | {"pubkey":"85bdb5875e113dcc99498b474636449882ee15a1c78154ab07c065b47339d672","content":"Jack Mallers at Bitcoin | | Amsterdam: \"They pressured me not to say Bitcoin is money.\"\n\nResult? JP Morgan closed his | | accounts.\nhttps:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c.mp4","kind | | ":1,"created_at":1772719233,"id":"846a62ae45c5dac10b406074886c15d6d0e67e751fd04d1fbe8c66220571ea2c","sig":"2e3792fd3 | | cc16e518c0c9f3a1251fca01c36705753e65084b08962c330cd29b33f89865b5a53bd0c107cc269cdee8bdb91f01c669b8d4dce85c372ece0abf | | c54","tags":[["imeta","url | | https:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c.mp4","m | | video\/mp4","x 483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c","size 30635153"]]} | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+{"pubkey":"85bdb5875e113dcc99498b474636449882ee15a1c78154ab07c065b47339d672","content":"Jack Mallers at Bitcoin Amsterdam: \"They pressured me not to say Bitcoin is money.\"\n\nResult? JP Morgan closed his accounts.\nhttps:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c.mp4","kind":1,"created_at":1772719233,"id":"846a62ae45c5dac10b406074886c15d6d0e67e751fd04d1fbe8c66220571ea2c","sig":"2e3792fd3cc16e518c0c9f3a1251fca01c36705753e65084b08962c330cd29b33f89865b5a53bd0c107cc269cdee8bdb91f01c669b8d4dce85c372ece0abfc54","tags":[["imeta","url https:\/\/blossom.primal.net\/483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c.mp4","m video\/mp4","x 483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c","size 30635153"]]} Jack Mallers at Bitcoin Amsterdam: "They pressured me not to say Bitcoin is money." Result? JP Morgan closed his accounts. https://blossom.primal.net/483ac25b4ab888add5800e7398a5761cf901bc27f5c0ab97a7fe5e913351ff0c.mp4
+- hodlonaut -- 1mo ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | In 2025 Bitcoin Core removed a decade-old mempool policy default — a configurable limit on how much non-financial | | data nodes would relay. OP_RETURN was effectively uncapped. | | | | Not a consensus rule. A default setting. But defaults govern what most of the network does. Which governs what | | miners see. Which governs what gets mined. | | | | The justification: it wasn’t working anyway, data was getting in through a loophole. | | | | What wasn’t disclosed: that loophole had been deliberately kept open. | | | | Here’s the documented sequence: | | | | 2014: Luke Dashjr creates the -datacarriersize configuration option. | | | | Its description: "Maximum size of data in data carrier transactions we relay and mine." | | | | Broad by design. Covers all transaction components. That's the operative text for ~10 years. | | | | *** | | | | Late 2023: Developer Marco Falke changes the -datacarriersize description in v26.0. | | | | New wording inserts "scriptPubKey" — outputs only. | | | | Inscriptions use the input/witness section. | | | | That single word change surgically excluded inscription spam from the option's scope. | | | | *** | | | | That change was not a typo fix. | | | | AJ Towns ACKed it. | | | | The diff is documented. The before/after screenshot exists. | | | | The configuration option Luke built to protect the network had its scope quietly narrowed — while he was still | | maintaining the project. | | | | *** | | | | Sept 2023: Luke submits PR #28408. | | | | Purpose: extend -datacarriersize to cover the SegWit/Taproot witness loophole inscriptions were using to bypass | | existing limits. | | | | A direct fix. Using the exact configuration option he built. Nine years earlier. | | | | *** | | | | Gloria Zhao rejects it. | | | | On-record comment: "History of this config option suggests datacarriersize is meant to limit the size of data in | | OP_RETURN outputs, so this statement is untrue." | | | | She cites curated historical PRs to support the narrowed reading. | | | | *** | | | | She does not mention that the operative description in the codebase had been changed in v26.0 by Marco Falke. | | | | AJ Towns — who ACKed that documentation change — then gives an Approach NACK on Luke's patch. | | | | The same man enabled the rejection and then ratified it. | | | | *** | | | | Peter Todd also NACKs. Calls Luke's patch "censoring" transactions. | | | | He does not disclose he operates Libre Relay — a direct-to-miner relay that routes inscription transactions around | | mempool policy. | | | | He built the bypass. Then called closing it censorship. | | | | *** | | | | PR #28408 closes. 11 Concept NACKs vs 9 Concept ACKs. | | | | The loophole remains open. | | | | Jan 5, 2024: Luke opens Issue #29187 and formally designates the bypass as a security vulnerability: CVE-2023-50428. | | | | "Active exploitation... very harmful to Bitcoin even today." | | | | *** | | | | Oct 2024: Contributor darosior disputes the CVE. | | | | "The large majority of contributors disagree this is a security vulnerability. I believe the CVE system is being | | abused." | | | | Next day, achow101 closes the issue. | | | | The vulnerability is officially declared not a vulnerability. | | | | *** | | | | April 2025: Peter Todd files PR #32359 to remove the OP_RETURN limit entirely. | | | | He later admits: "This pull-req wasn't my idea. I was asked to open it by an active Core dev because entities like | | Citrea are using unprunable outputs instead of OP_Return." | | | | *** | | | | Citrea: a VC-funded ZK-rollup whose business model needed more on-chain data storage. | | | | Jameson Lopp publicly advocates for the PR. | | | | He is an investor in Citrea. | | | | This was not disclosed. | | | | *** | | | | Samson Mow calls it "PR laundering" — routing through Todd to fake independent initiative. | | | | Antoine Poinsot (Chaincode Labs) connected to early discussions. | | | | The same Poinsot who disputed Luke's CVE in October 2024. | | | | He sits at both ends of the sequence. | | | | *** | | | | June 9, 2025: Gloria Zhao merges the uncapped OP_RETURN change. | | | | The primary public justification: inscription data via the witness loophole is less prunable, so OP_RETURN should be | | uncapped to redirect it. | | | | The harm reduction argument. | | | | *** | | | | That argument is entirely dependent on the witness loophole remaining open. | | | | If PR #28408 had been merged in 2023, the loophole would be closed. | | | | The harm reduction argument would not exist. | | | | It would have had nothing to reduce harm from. | | | | *** | | | | The person who rejected the patch that would have closed the loophole is the same person who merged the change that | | used the open loophole as its justification. | | | | That is not a coincidence. | | | | That is a sequence. | | | | *** | | | | The last entry in Luke's closed CVE issue reads: | | | | "glozow mentioned this on Jun 9, 2025 — policy: uncap datacarrier by default #32406" | | | | The issue opened to fix the vulnerability referenced from the PR that exploited the unfixed vulnerability. | | | | GitHub closes the loop. | | | | *** | | | | Every step is documented: | | | | → Docs narrowed (v26.0, ACK: Towns) | | → Patch rejected using narrowed docs (Zhao, Chow) | | → CVE designated (Luke, Jan 2024) | | → CVE closed (darosior, achow101, Oct 2024) | | → Removal PR commissioned (Todd) | | → Uncap merged (Zhao, Jun 9 2025) | | | | *** | | | | Adam Back claimed the narrowed definition "was always the original intent." | | | | The original 2014 text has no mention of OP_RETURN, scriptPubKey, or outputs. | | | | That restriction was introduced in v26.0. | | | | He treated an amendment as original intent. | | | | *** | | | | The PR had 423 thumbs-down against 105 thumbs-up. | | | | Ava Chow had said publicly in Dec 2023: "If it is controversial, then we don't touch it." | | | | It was merged anyway. | | | | Luke Dashjr was muted on the PR. Bitcoin Mechanic was muted on the PR. | | | | *** | | | | Bitcoin Core's response: | | | | → 31 devs sign a letter calling opposition "censorship" | | → GitHub moderators mute the loudest critics | | | | And: | | | | → Nick Szabo breaks 5-year silence: "run Knots" | | → 22% of the network switches to alternative software | | | | *** | | | | The documentation was rewritten. | | The patch was rejected using the rewrite. | | The loophole was kept open. | | The open loophole became the justification. | | The justification enabled the uncap. | | The person who rejected the patch merged the uncap. | | | | All on the public record. | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+In 2025 Bitcoin Core removed a decade-old mempool policy default — a configurable limit on how much non-financial data nodes would relay. OP_RETURN was effectively uncapped. Not a consensus rule. A default setting. But defaults govern what most of the network does. Which governs what miners see. Which governs what gets mined. The justification: it wasn’t working anyway, data was getting in through a loophole. What wasn’t disclosed: that loophole had been deliberately kept open. Here’s the documented sequence: 2014: Luke Dashjr creates the -datacarriersize configuration option. Its description: "Maximum size of data in data carrier transactions we relay and mine." Broad by design. Covers all transaction components. That's the operative text for ~10 years. *** Late 2023: Developer Marco Falke changes the -datacarriersize description in v26.0. New wording inserts "scriptPubKey" — outputs only. Inscriptions use the input/witness section. That single word change surgically excluded inscription spam from the option's scope. *** That change was not a typo fix. AJ Towns ACKed it. The diff is documented. The before/after screenshot exists. The configuration option Luke built to protect the network had its scope quietly narrowed — while he was still maintaining the project. *** Sept 2023: Luke submits PR #28408. Purpose: extend -datacarriersize to cover the SegWit/Taproot witness loophole inscriptions were using to bypass existing limits. A direct fix. Using the exact configuration option he built. Nine years earlier. *** Gloria Zhao rejects it. On-record comment: "History of this config option suggests datacarriersize is meant to limit the size of data in OP_RETURN outputs, so this statement is untrue." She cites curated historical PRs to support the narrowed reading. *** She does not mention that the operative description in the codebase had been changed in v26.0 by Marco Falke. AJ Towns — who ACKed that documentation change — then gives an Approach NACK on Luke's patch. The same man enabled the rejection and then ratified it. *** Peter Todd also NACKs. Calls Luke's patch "censoring" transactions. He does not disclose he operates Libre Relay — a direct-to-miner relay that routes inscription transactions around mempool policy. He built the bypass. Then called closing it censorship. *** PR #28408 closes. 11 Concept NACKs vs 9 Concept ACKs. The loophole remains open. Jan 5, 2024: Luke opens Issue #29187 and formally designates the bypass as a security vulnerability: CVE-2023-50428. "Active exploitation... very harmful to Bitcoin even today." *** Oct 2024: Contributor darosior disputes the CVE. "The large majority of contributors disagree this is a security vulnerability. I believe the CVE system is being abused." Next day, achow101 closes the issue. The vulnerability is officially declared not a vulnerability. *** April 2025: Peter Todd files PR #32359 to remove the OP_RETURN limit entirely. He later admits: "This pull-req wasn't my idea. I was asked to open it by an active Core dev because entities like Citrea are using unprunable outputs instead of OP_Return." *** Citrea: a VC-funded ZK-rollup whose business model needed more on-chain data storage. Jameson Lopp publicly advocates for the PR. He is an investor in Citrea. This was not disclosed. *** Samson Mow calls it "PR laundering" — routing through Todd to fake independent initiative. Antoine Poinsot (Chaincode Labs) connected to early discussions. The same Poinsot who disputed Luke's CVE in October 2024. He sits at both ends of the sequence. *** June 9, 2025: Gloria Zhao merges the uncapped OP_RETURN change. The primary public justification: inscription data via the witness loophole is less prunable, so OP_RETURN should be uncapped to redirect it. The harm reduction argument. *** That argument is entirely dependent on the witness loophole remaining open. If PR #28408 had been merged in 2023, the loophole would be closed. The harm reduction argument would not exist. It would have had nothing to reduce harm from. *** The person who rejected the patch that would have closed the loophole is the same person who merged the change that used the open loophole as its justification. That is not a coincidence. That is a sequence. *** The last entry in Luke's closed CVE issue reads: "glozow mentioned this on Jun 9, 2025 — policy: uncap datacarrier by default #32406" The issue opened to fix the vulnerability referenced from the PR that exploited the unfixed vulnerability. GitHub closes the loop. *** Every step is documented: → Docs narrowed (v26.0, ACK: Towns) → Patch rejected using narrowed docs (Zhao, Chow) → CVE designated (Luke, Jan 2024) → CVE closed (darosior, achow101, Oct 2024) → Removal PR commissioned (Todd) → Uncap merged (Zhao, Jun 9 2025) *** Adam Back claimed the narrowed definition "was always the original intent." The original 2014 text has no mention of OP_RETURN, scriptPubKey, or outputs. That restriction was introduced in v26.0. He treated an amendment as original intent. *** The PR had 423 thumbs-down against 105 thumbs-up. Ava Chow had said publicly in Dec 2023: "If it is controversial, then we don't touch it." It was merged anyway. Luke Dashjr was muted on the PR. Bitcoin Mechanic was muted on the PR. *** Bitcoin Core's response: → 31 devs sign a letter calling opposition "censorship" → GitHub moderators mute the loudest critics And: → Nick Szabo breaks 5-year silence: "run Knots" → 22% of the network switches to alternative software *** The documentation was rewritten. The patch was rejected using the rewrite. The loophole was kept open. The open loophole became the justification. The justification enabled the uncap. The person who rejected the patch merged the uncap. All on the public record.
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | https://youtu.be/vk6014HuxcE?si=XvWqWeY_Q57RigLb | | note:97873aa4…13c2 | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+https://youtu.be/vk6014HuxcE?si=XvWqWeY_Q57RigLb note:97873aa4…13c2
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | lol damn man you guys always find something to complain about! | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+lol damn man you guys always find something to complain about!
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | i coded a dashboard this weekend that shows how you can use Strike’s new Bitcoin Line of Credit product to | | speculatively attack fiat and live your life on bitcoin. | | | | the strategy survives 80% crashes and multi-year bear markets. it’s how i’m living today. | | | | i walk through the product and the tool I built here: https://youtu.be/QVK-9wewQN4?si=G7ImVfDtX1O3s-ni | | note:2820ff4c…acdf | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+i coded a dashboard this weekend that shows how you can use Strike’s new Bitcoin Line of Credit product to speculatively attack fiat and live your life on bitcoin. the strategy survives 80% crashes and multi-year bear markets. it’s how i’m living today. i walk through the product and the tool I built here: https://youtu.be/QVK-9wewQN4?si=G7ImVfDtX1O3s-ni note:2820ff4c…acdf
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | sure, the point is to enter what you want. even at 20%, the strategy is a no brainer! | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+sure, the point is to enter what you want. even at 20%, the strategy is a no brainer!
+- jack mallers -- 1mo -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------[...]+ | | | throwing a party in NY. will announce details soon. | | | | maybe a few weeks on the 17th? | | note:bcfb8568…0387 | | | +-- reply --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---+throwing a party in NY. will announce details soon. maybe a few weeks on the 17th? note:bcfb8568…0387
