The people that are opposing the way Bitcoin development is working right now need a thing to rally around. Over the weekend, a poll request popped up for a new bit. There is a lot of legal framing. There's a lot of moral framing. And Bitcoin improvement proposals and Bitcoin code is not the place to kind of codify out legal frameworks or moral frameworks. It is just this is a software project and you have to write the code as it exists. And if you start going to legal framing, all you need is for someone to say Bitcoin is illegal. and you're like, well, I guess it's all over then, right?

Because like the whole point of... It is just this is a software project and you have to write the code as it exists. And if you start going to legal framing, all you need is for someone to say Bitcoin is illegal

and you're like, well, I guess it's all over then, right? Because like the whole point of this thing is that this is a system of rules, not rulers. It is anarchy encoded in a digital form. You're now bringing a subjective lens to how Bitcoin works. And the fact that Bitcoin works is an objective system. I don't think it's going to go anywhere.

If there is a fork, it's going to be such a small minority of hash rate.

It's going to fall in its face pretty flat pretty quickly.

I think it's going to go anywhere. If there is a fork, it's going to be such a small minority of hash rate. It's going to fall in its face pretty flat pretty quickly.

I think it's going to be a lot of talking and bantering, but at least we're now in a more honest framing of how this should all go because it was always going to have to be a fork. so at least we're there now.

In the wee hours of Sunday afternoon this past week, a mailing list issue popped up on the Bitcoin developer main list and pointed to a PR,

which could be Bitcoin's next soft fork is Bitcoin's hard money going to get a soft fork.

Welcome back to Bitcoin Season 2.

Okay, Rob, you're my dancing monkey.

I bring you on whenever I need bigger technical chops because things have been moving pretty fast.

A lot, this is a technical subject,

but we need interpreters to figure out how to explain it less technically.

Welcome back to the show. Thanks for having me. I know you have like a list of seven people and they all

said no. So I'm the only one left. So I'm happy to do what I can to help. Exactly. I don't want to

go to my eighth person because it would just be Charlie with a mustache. That's right. That's right.

So, okay. so actually, let's just explain what this is.

Because I think nobody, like people as they're seeing this episode are probably seeing like the first news stories pop up.

What is this?

And how does this fit into the filter debate?

Three weeks ago, Bitcoin developer, you and I both know, Portland Hottle, submitted a mailing list proposal, which usually the Bitcoin developer mailing list is where before you write code or maybe when you're like at the discussion stage of an idea, you want to banter around ideas.

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