One of the most uncertain times in the history of Bitcoin was said Block size warwhere the technical debate on how the network should be able to accommodate multiple users, among other disagreements, led to the system being able to resist Protocol changes in the face of Rising pressure from the company’s top brass which had been building upon it.
Finally, a A Multi-Layer Approach to Measurement which maintains a high standard deviation distribution in the base was Schelling point where users arrive. And even today The lowest level of activity that takes place in the Base Blockchain layerit is not clear what the whole argument was.
Now, there is some technical disagreement among Bitcoin users in terms of how the system should deal with spam and various other types of unwanted transactions. Of course, defining spam is somewhat tricky in a system that is supposed to be private.
Not all things that are problems have solutions, or if they do have solutions they can bring more dangers than living with the problem. For example you can deal with spam by including bitcoin but then it won’t be trust or intelligence.
– Adam back (@Adam3us) October 12, 2025
Bitcoin Knots, led by long-time Bitcoin Core Contributor Luke Dashjr, has enabled automatic filtering that nodes can use to prevent certain types of unwanted transactions from being transmitted to the network. However, those professionals only need a small amount of resources to support them in order to find their way to the new blocks produced by the miners. Additionally, the observed “spammers” simply send their transactions directly to miners who are willing to hear about it.
For reference, Bitcoin Core is a client node software that has always been used by the majority of users on the Bitcoin network and is the first Satoshi operation. Bitcoin Knots also exists and has been maintained by DashJR since 2011, but has increased its relevance during the recent “spam” filter controversy.
Up to this point, users of Bitcoin Knots have not received sufficient support from the network to filter their use of sufficient written content. So, now lift up A change in the rules of the real Bitcoin network regarding these unwanted transactions, which balances many of their opponents – sold out They will be forced to enter at the beginning of the year.
The types of transactions that Bitcoin users using nodes would like to see filtered vary, but they tend to be related to data entry against the blockchain. In particular, non-factual tokens (NFTs) enabled in bitcoin with the protocol used for the debate have been an important discussion in the last few years.
While those who work in knots would like to take a more aggressive stance against the issue of Bitcoin Blockchain being used for other tokens that are considered FITCoin Client to Bitcoin Client to FITCoin Client that works as a payment method that ultimately works as a long-term method to eliminate spam.
A lot of the discussion of this bitcoin / spam debate comes down to money and coffee and I don’t know why all this is lost more than most people
1: Block sizes must be stripped for deconralization
(This was resolved 10’years ago, so if you don’t agree just leave)2: …
– StopandDecrypt (@stopanddecrypt) May 2, 2025
To be clear, many supporters of the Bitcoin Coute Development approach also don’t like it very much when the Bitcoin Blockchain is used for things that aren’t Bitcoin. However, they consider “spam” currently a temporary phenomenon related to the lack of adoption of Bitcoin as a currency. In other words, the use of Bitcoin as a currency should be found in the use of the Bitcoin network in other long-term use cases.
Recently, supporters of Bitcoin Knots View have become more aggressive and active in their stance against Bitcoin Core’s development decisions. Some groups believe that the recent change in terms of the size of Op_return The payment (intended to limit the damage caused by adversarial data on the BITCoin Blockchain to be transmitted by Bitcoin Core Nodes) will lead to an explosion of non-Bitcoin activity on the network.
This is not true. Here are the 0.9 Bitcoin Core release notes about OP_Return and Blockchain data: pic.twitter.com/sm9jpl0hp
– Kyle Torpey (@kyletorpey) On October 8, 2025
Additionally, various people involved in Bitcoin Mining Pool Ocean have stated that Bitcoin will die if this change is detected by the majority of the network because someone will upload illegal content to the Blockchain. This is a big claim – repeated With many lawyers working in the Bitcoin industry, because this is a potential problem that existed for many years before the recent release of Bitcoin Core.
Until now, the soft fork proposal from the Catcoin Knots Camp has not been taken seriously except by those who are already running that software client. For example, when Bitcoin Core Coressictutor contributor Peter Todd took all the documents of the Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP) associated with the soft fork and put them on the Bitcoin Blockchain in a way that did not hear about the new rules implemented by the new forks.
Former Bitcoin Core Counder provider and blockstream founder Greg Maxwell has asked for a pull request associated with BIP to be dropped due to alleged fraudulent claims made by legal representatives. Currently, The pull request is locked.
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– Alex Amern (@intangiblecoins) On October 27, 2025
Depending on the general support within the Bitcoin network, it is difficult to see where the support for this Fork proposal stands now. This is where others balancing It means that more than 20% of the nodes in the bitcoin network use bitcoin nodes, the fact that this does not say anything about the funding of economic areas or miners, are the most relevant things to consider.
The offshore mining pool currently accounts for another area about 2% of the complete Haphrate network. More than 20% of hasherte already seem to accept big op_return transactions, and Mining Pool F2Pool head went public against the latest fork proposal.
It’s crazy to think that because some will write about BIP, the network should improve something else and they are bad…
Dude, write a better BIP.
Authoritarian Clewshow.
– _Checkmate 🟠🔑⚡☢️🛢️ (@_chocktey_) On October 27, 2025
If the Bitcoin Knots support is better than it is similar to the renewal of its part of the larger Bitcoin network, then the fork can still be pulled with less support. However, additional tweaks may be needed to make sure the blockchain continues, as the current bitcoin difficulty level would be too much for small miners to overcome. Bitcoin currency had to make similar changes when it first appeared on the original Bitcoin network.
Discussions have taken place about the practical changes that can be made to spamming the network, but this initial fork proposal does not appear to be the case.
