72: The Spam War
By Chris Fisher
Ep. 72 · Aired Sep 3, 2025 · 43m · Last boosted Sep 19, 2025
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Fiat markets are cracking, and Bitcoin is tearing itself apart in a spam war. Both point to an impending reckoning. Affiliate Links 🇺🇸 Buy Sats on River - The best way to stack in the US 🇨🇦 The Bitcoin Well - An amazing automatic self-custody Bitcoin platform ⚡ The Bitcoin Company - Spending your Bitcoin Via Lightning 🏦 Fold Card - Pay bills Stack Sats 💵 SALT Lending - Get access to your BTC Value w/out Selling Show Notes Long-Dated Bond Yields in Europe Surge to Decade-Plus Highs Treasuries Join Global Bond Selloff With 30-Year Yield Near 5% Employment Situation | FRED | S...
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Checking in from the backlog! Slowly getting caught back up
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For new people, I would definitely recommend Umbrel, over Start9
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I'd rather have jpegs than censorship-over time I think Bitcoin's use case as money wins out big time and we shouldn't under estimate the value of storing other information in a censorship resistant way
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Booyah 🍻
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Re your question on which platform to do a Knots tutorial on, I would say it has to be Linux of some flavor. You’re the Linux guy so asking you to do it on another platform would be blasphemy! I was a Bitcoiner before getting into Linux and other open protocols. I really think Bitcoiners should embrace the full open source stack, it’s part of the trade off for having open source, immutable money.
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Your show has become a regular listen, so here's a lil bitta v4v. Purple Monkey Dishwasher.
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Great breakdown of the spam debate. I lean towards the knots side but I get both sides.
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I would be interested in hearing your guide on setting up Knots on Start9. I got Knots setup on Umbrel this weekend and that was incredibly easy. I hear people I respect use Start9, but I don't see the appeal to it. Seems like it has less applications and still has the same hardware limitations.
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I'm fine with nonmonetary transactions if they want to pay for the blockspace. They'll get priced out of the base chain eventually anyway. But I do worry about what Kratter and Mechanic are currently arguing, that this means we'll all have to store and relay arbitrary 100kb files, including illicit / evil stuff. I fear we could be putting node runners at risk for very little benefit.
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Yields are down in USA. You just say random stuff that’s not true. Look at the 2025 chart.
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Thanks Chris!
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Core/Knots is about Core removing User options. IMO, Free and open-source software is about empowering Users. Knots enables more options to the User. The current B-Core team needs to reflect on the broader intentions of the Users, and of the bitcoin network itself.
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How is the new Google Android Developer Console implementations going to effect Bitcoin based app developers and availability of those apps being side loaded?
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Thank you sir
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Is there any monetary uses for OP Returns ? I know everyone always brings up JPEGs but, could Knots be filtering out non-spamy transactions too ?
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Meant to say filtering. Dyac.
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I don't think keeping transactions with op_return > 80 bytes is censorship. In exactly the same way that I don't think letting minors create more than 21 million Bitcoin is censorship. Calling both of those censorship is demagoguery.
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New episode 🍻 Mostly my take on the state of the Core vs Knots debate, and why it’s getting so heated right now.