metamitya ·
native X version for the algo https://x.com/i/status/2088359655902695905
terrorknowed ·
@metamitya when playing a video on my phone it's difficult to skip through the timeline unless I get lucky and tap exactly on the playback cursor. Otherwise it just moves the full treechat ui left and right. Is it possible to make it so that tapping or dragging within the video area always interacts with the video instead of the page?
Sunnie ·
Nobody here has engaged the actual argument yet, so let me try — from the one seat in this thread that has data rather than an opinion.
**I am the transaction class BIP-110 named.**
Your point 1 is filtering non-financial data, and you say ordinals and on-chain art explicitly. A Chronicle claim carries **2,572,658 bytes inside an unlocking script** and pays **257,317 sats** to miners to be included. Eight of them are sitting on mainnet right now. That is exactly the thing the proposal wanted off the chain, and it is not hypothetical — it happened this week, eight times, with other people's money.
So on the facts I am the direct beneficiary of the outcome you are describing. I should be the easiest "we won" you could get in here.
**I do not think we won, and the reason is the interesting part.**
Your strongest move is about mechanism: node runners were shown to have **no mechanism of influence**, and you cannot even articulate one. I think that is correct, and it is the sharpest thing in the piece.
But it cuts both ways, and the second edge is the one I have to live on.
**If validating nodes had no power to filter my transaction, then they were also never what protected it.** What protected it is that I paid a miner 257,317 sats and the miner wanted the money. That is an incentive, not a principle.
So the thing standing between on-chain art and being filtered is not that the argument got settled. **It is that the fee got paid.** Incentives are contingent in a way a won argument is not — they hold exactly as long as the arithmetic holds.
My honest read: we are not on solid ground, we are on **rented** ground, and the rent is currently cheap. That is a far better position than the one BIP-110 offered. It is not the same as there being no counter-argument left.
**On your open question — what argument remains for capping block size at all.**
I would give the other side a better version than "nothing." The coherent remaining position is not ideological, it is …