RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)With arbitrary content a wide variety of unexpected threats are possible. Most policy has to be flexible to be able to deal with them when then happen instead of frequent forks, which are dangerous.That said, a very careful soft fork in the long term is also desirable to provide two layers of protection. ...

RT Guy Swann (@TheGuySwann)"I think ossification is amazing. The video I made about Taproot, asking whether or not it was a good soft fork, I think has some merit to it, because the use case that the vast majority of people that are using Bitcoin for is savings, right? Like store of value. And why did we do Taproot, again? This is the thing that we should be asking about these soft forks: a good post-mortem of, 'Okay, did it work? Did it do what we wanted?' And if you look at 90% of the UTXOs that are using ...

Bitcoin proposal to curb spam with a temporary soft fork sparks debate among developers https://t.co/F0SfQzp9HB ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)With arbitrary content a wide variety of unexpected threats are possible. Most policy has to be flexible to be able to deal with them when then happen instead of frequent forks, which are dangerous.That said, a very careful soft fork in the long term is also desirable to provide two layers of protection. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@zamir591582 @adam3us @satflation @jabulanijakes @BitMEXResearch @giacomozucco Yes we should be working towards this kind of soft fork. But given core's current priorities, this may be a very long term indeed, possibly forever. So meanwhile Knots is the best protection noderunners have available. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)OP_RETURN2 and some other proposals along these lines are great ideas and I would likely strongly support them. Before this soft fork happens, though, it's highly dangerous to turn OP_RETURN into a feature intended for non-financial content with a radical and well-publicized size increase that legitimizes and invites non-financial content. ...

RT David Freeman (@_DavidSFreeman)after 6 months of telling the filter bois they need a soft fork to actually cut down on the spam, @PortlandHODL just wrote up the idea for themluke seems to like it based on his response https://t.co/0LVWapSvHl ...