RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@adam3us @colbyserpa @csuwildcat @ocean_mining Yes, there is no excuse for the Bitcoin reference client to expose us to the wide variety of extreme legal risks that come with arbitrary content.You don't understand the threat environment. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)You calling it absurd isn't going to influence the lawyers. They have their own precedents and their own ideas. If node operators have knowledge that they are hosting illegal data, they are probably criminally liable in many jurisdictions. (Whether or when prosecutors choose to prosecute may or may not be another matter). They will thus often be legally obligated to delete the data. The pertinent and crucial technical question is, can they delete the illegal data without disruptin ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)That is a consequence of not incentivizing non-financial content to be in its own bucket (or on another chain). If you mix your financial functionality with arbitrary content, which poses a far wider swath of legal risks and moral objections, it is going to stop being so functional. Since Core v30 is signaling an invitation to more rather than less use OP_RETURN for non-financial content, they are also inadvertently signaling that the financial functionality of OP_RETURN is deprec ...