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Luke-Jr has been arguing that SD and sites like it are a "DDOS" on the Bitcoin network for years and years. There is no concensus on this. I personally do not care too much about the technical argument. SD is paying transaction fees for their transactions. If I pay $10 for a cup of coffee then I expect to get one, I do not expect the cafe to take my money and then complain loudly that I am a problem because they have to spend energy boiling the water to make my coffee for me nor do I expect them to tell me that I am doing a DOS attack because I am denying the other customers their coffee while they are making mine.
If there is an actual problem to be solved then this needs to be solved in a way which is fair and equal to all.
Yes, I agree.
"equal to all" is also called fungibility.
Bitcoin is broken once you start breaking fungibility by censoring otherwise valid, fee-paying transactions because they're on a blacklist.
The worst part is, this patch doesn't even check to see how big the transaction is. If someone ran this patchset and doesn't update for several months, the blacklisting would still persist because it really is just hardcoded as:
[
"block this list of addresses used by such and such companies" ] ... rather than:
[
"block transactions which match such and such well-defined pattern" ]
If the blacklist wasn't there, and there was a clear definition for what was being blocked (
and it was done so in a procedural way, rather than a static blacklist) then this patchset would at least be
closer to being fungible for all (
but still not 100% fair, since it's still blacklisting a type of pattern which is otherwise valid and pays fees)
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One last little thing: Luke-Jr as repeatedly claimed that I am "trolling" for raising this issue. If you wake up in the morning and you meet a troll then that's just bad luck. If you wake up and meet a troll and the next person you meet is also a troll and you meet trolls all day.. well. you be the judge.Yes. I believe that's called "crying wolf" as the old story goes.
There was a boy tending the sheep who would continually go up to the embankment and shout:
"Help, there's a wolf!"
The farmers would all come running only to find out that what the boy said was not true.
Then one day there really was a wolf but when the boy shouted, they didn't believe him and no one came to his aid.
The whole flock was eaten by the wolf.
-- An english transaction of "Aesop's Fable" about the boy who cried wolf.
This patchset really has a bunch of "less scary" patches too, but that doesn't make the contentious blacklisting any less harmful to the fungibility of bitcoin.