Fork attempts based on legal threats to custodians and miners are a bigger threat to Bitcoin than spam.

Oct 27, 2025 · 2:25 PM UTC

Replying to @kyletorpey
Why ? doesn´t the main chain continues as usual ?
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If the fork doesn’t succeed, yes. We aren’t at the point where an actual state is pointing guns at people and telling them to run specific code. But it’s useful to think of the recent BIP in that theoretical context.
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Replying to @kyletorpey
Stop lying. 🤦🏻‍♂️
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Replying to @kyletorpey
Can you show me the legal threats?
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Replying to @kyletorpey
Nobody threatened anybody. The bip is poorly worded but it warns people about risks of unmoderated data storage
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Replying to @kyletorpey
They didn't threaten the community, Core did by blowing up Op return. How do you not understand this?
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Replying to @kyletorpey
The legal risk is to Bitcoin node runners because of the potential to be prosecuted for having illegal content on their machines.
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Replying to @kyletorpey
Legal threat in a handful of jurisdictions globally (China for example) has historically meant that that those jurisdictions would just be excluding themselves from the bitcoin open monetary network and the network continued. We are now in a place where virtually all jurisdictions in the world will legally threaten bitcoin network participants. Over time there will be virtually no safe harbor globally. How many jurisdictions globally will turn a blind eye to unrestricted CSAM storage? What do you expect a custodian, miner or node runner to do when threatened with legal action? Stand up tall in front of the man, try to run a "hidden" node somewhere, or run a fork that sanitizes the blockchain in some way? The bitcoin frog will be cooked 1 CSAM image/video, jurisdiction and prosecution at a time. It will happen slowly, then suddenly when critical mass is achieved.
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Replying to @kyletorpey
You're retarded.
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Replying to @kyletorpey
The legal threat is already there. The fork offers a way out. The fork is not the threat. It's a possible solution to it. Take the fork away and the threat is still there.
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Replying to @kyletorpey
There were no legal threats. The simple fact is that 100% of bitcoin core v30 users are operating illegal porn image hosting servers. And they’ll need the soft fork to become legally compliant again
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Replying to @kyletorpey
It is not like that, and no need to exaggerate a softfork:
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Replying to @kyletorpey
Yes, and because Bitcoin mining isn't very decentralized it's actually easy to located most hashpower in warehouses full of ASICs that belongs to mega corporations and coerce them. A large and growing % of coins are held by custodians(BTC failed to scale) they can be coerced too
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Replying to @kyletorpey
But not a bigger one than Unspeakable JPEGs That's the problem
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Replying to @kyletorpey
That its a threat...is a red-herring.
Replying to @kyletorpey
What’s the actual threat.
Replying to @kyletorpey
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