🗣️ Pourteaux speaks

On today’s Supply Shock podcast, Pete Rizzo keeps rolling with the Knots vs. Core debate.

This time around, longtime Bitcoiner and essayist pourteaux shares his views: Knots is Twitter drama, filters won’t stop valid, fee-paying transactions, and JPEGs even potentially cycling back.

Pourteaux argues Core’s stance — which will see the OP_RETURN data limit lifted next month — isn’t pro-JPEG. It’s pro-market.

Similar to points raised by Jonathan Bier earlier this week, pourteaux believes that avoiding transaction filters encourages data to route through the standard fee market instead of miner-direct side doors, which strengthens Bitcoin.

If you try to block certain types of transactions, users will just encode data in worse ways (and OP_RETURN remains the least harmful). The Bitcoin space should not moralize externalities, it should minimize them.

“I’ve talked to the Core developers and none of them really are JPEG enjoyers…they just don’t think filters are the way to address this,” pourteaux told Rizzo.

Full episode on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts and X.

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