Step 1. open the protocol up to easier data storage
Step 2. obvious illicit data gets put on the chain and in node mempools
Step 3. public outcry and proposal to introduce node-level filtering, aka censorship infrastructure at miner level
Core v30 data-carrier enabling changes viewed from a Hegelian Dialectic perspective
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“When you don’t have the necessary crisis to make changes which would otherwise be unpopular, then you need to manufacture it.”
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As I wrote in another thread:
> I do wonder if BTC miners want to take up the job of keeping the blockchain free of arbitrary data which any random governments have an issue with. Because you can bet politicians will try to force them to censor data on the chain if they see something that they can make into an election issue.
> If not, the solution is to be a financial network, not a random-ass data storage network.
> It’s within the power of the consensus rules to keep Bitcoin a financial network. Let’s recall what the title of the whitepaper said:
> _”Bitcoin: a peer to peer electronic cash system”_
Thank Satoshi that Bitcoin Cash exists.
Everything Core does has a sinister agenda behind it because their funding is coming from bankers.