RT Vijay Selvam (@vijayselvam)Great point re torrents being broken up vs Bitcoin archival nodes. Agree on that distinction. I definitely would not venture that “bits are bit” is or will be the legal position internationally. Nobody knows is the answer. Ease of accessibility may be a factor but there will almost certainly never be a consistent international position on this that node runners can safely take comfort in.I would nevertheless note:- knowledge / intention (as opposed to strict liability) is typic ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)I hope your philosophy becomes the law for blockchains, but I wonder whether that is wishful thinking.Noderunners can be notified that the content exists, without viewing it themselves. Some forms of notification, at the very least legal notice, would presumably satisfy the knowledge leg. At that point, an archival node faces the choice of shutting itself down (or at the very least turning off its crucial functionality as an archival node) or keeping up a server they now presumabl ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)None of that implies that racism by people is a sin, and indeed, except for the God's Covenant being available to all people, nowhere does the New Testament repudiate the many acts of preference, discrimination, and/or distinction, by God, and by God's followers with God's implied or expressed approval, among ethne or based on ethnos in the Old Testament. ...

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RT Colby Serpa (@colbyserpa)Nostr and BitTorrent are less vulnerable to arbitrary data storage attacks when compared with today's blockchains because data can be selectively deleted from those nodes, or stored temporarily, whereas a blockchain can only be verified if *all* of the blocks are downloaded by a given full-node. Unfortunately, all that data is stored permanently by each full-node. Finding a way to achieve verifiability without keeping the raw data is the ultimate challenge for this generation. ...

RT Andrew Torba (@BasedTorba)40(!!!) American engineers designed this. A team of 300(!!) built it in 4 years. A few dozen of our people forged a machine so advanced that it still commands wonder six decades later. Not one H-1B. Not one foreign hand. Just Americans doing what Americans do best: building the impossible. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@clayrab Every Thanksgiving dinner sits at a different place on the Kaleidoscope (indeed sometimes many of the people sitting at the table!) ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@scrypto_ @PastorDScott You have some severe problems with reading comprehension. "As thyself" means something rather extremely different from "as God"! And loving "thy neighbor as thyself" does not anywhere remotely imply "all are equal in the eyes of God." ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)In BitTorrent, content is typically broken up among multiple nodes, and can only be obtained by assembling different pieces from multiple nodes. If the police confiscate a BitTorrent server, they will typically find no legible version of the illegal content. With blockchains a given whole piece of content is typically found on one server, although it may or may not be broken up into different transactions or even different blocks. As a result the entire, legible illegal content ca ...

RT Vijay Selvam (@vijayselvam)Few thoughts:- Whether the illegal blob is hidden in a 300 KB witness envelope (pre-v30 inscriptions) or OP_RETURN (post-v30), the bytes still end up in exactly the same immutable chain and are just as undeletable.- IMO liability for illegal images would be accentuated only if you ran an explorer to decode and display images.- Outside the US too, German BaFin, the Dutch AFM, and Singapore MAS have all issued guidance that running a non-custodial full node is not money-transmiss ...