The coming changes to Bitcoin Core would force node runners to host all kinds of garbage including images of child pornography and other useless or even illegal material. That is no exaggeration. Since it is against the law to host CP on your computer every node runner would become potential targets of the criminal justice system, through no fault of their own. Which is why I switched to Knots long ago.
That's the sort of FUD that has been used before, BUT intent truly matters. I don't believe that it would happen to be as simple as what the FUD suggests.
This would provide governments with a legal justification to shut down bitcoin completely or at least outlaw it in their respective country.
Good luck proving that there was actual intent in court. Ethereum and Solana could be bigger targets, no?
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Those who argue that bitcoin should be completely free and wide open to anything, and that anything goes on the bitcoin network as long as you pay the network fees, are complete fucking retarded imbeciles. From the start Bitcoin was created by Satoshi as a monetary network first and foremost and should not be turned into another shitcoin like Ethereum, solana, pepecoin, fartcoin, etc.
There are millions of existing chains that shitcoiners can use for that garbage. There is no need, and no sense for bitcoin to do the same.
You can filter them if you want, but if none of those transactions are breaking the consensus rules, then we simply can't censor them.