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Except your Google calendar entries can't be monetized in perpetuity. Remember, every file put on chain is linked to a wallet address. Imagine creating a viral meme and getting fractions of a penny each time it was re-posted somewhere. That's where this is all headed.


It works by embedding data inside of transactions. Really next level stuff, check this out:

https://github.com/unwriter/B


You're talking about BTC, not BitCoin.


It is BitCoin. Same address space, same hashing algorithm, same consensus rules.

BTC is just one version of the BitCoin experiment.


Not if there's a data center in every city on the planet.


Ethereum really isn't great for stuff like this. Check this article:

https://www.yours.org/content/blockchain-computing-on-ethere...


Totally!

BSV is the pure capitalist, maximalist version of the BitCoin experiment. If they're correct and it works, things are going to get very interesting soon.


Who cares? It's all BitCoin. Bottle is cool. Unwriter is cool. Everything you said is just political mumbo jumbo that has nothing to do with BitCoin and everything to do with the ideological neuroses of the BTC developers.

Nobody uses BTC seriously besides criminals and hobbyists. You can't blame them for making a more efficient version of the same system.


What I said has everything to do with Bitcoin. Things like anonymity and resistance to government control are central to the purpose of Bitcoin. I have no idea what the basis of your claim, that "Satoshi's Vision"'s anti-Bitcoin ethos don't matter to its categorization as Bitcoin, is.


OP_RETURN data can be pruned, actually. Miners/node owners can decide for themselves if they want to keep the data; eventually a market will emerge for such a service, but for now the blockchain is small enough that it's not a problem.


In most cases, you don't even need a pruned node. https://github.com/interplanaria/bitbus



I didn't know that, thanks. πerhaps putting it one the site would be useful.


It's not developed by the same dev. Since Bitcoin is an open protocol, everyone can provide tools to query, view, automate,... the same data.


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