Bip-110

The Benevolent King

Bitcoin's governance already works like a well-checked monarchy disciplined by exit, not a democracy — and judged on skin in the game, Luke Dashjr is the owner-king you want, not the caretaker you fear.

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What is Bitcoin Core?

If you know what Bitcoin is, but don't know what Bitcoin Core, OP_RETURN, or BIP-110 mean, then this article is for you.

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The Burden of Stones

A dry, ironic fable: in the kingdom of Sloppdom, everyone keeps a copy of the shared Great Ledger that holds the king in check. Then King Slopp lets people chisel worthless notes onto rocks attached to gold transactions — for a fee — and forces every citizen to store them forever. The rich shrug; the poor are crushed, hoarding rubbish that isn't theirs until they're too burdened to hold the king to account. A parable about how junk data forced onto a shared ledger falls hardest on the smallest holders.

The Retardation of Bitcoin

Arbitrary data — inscriptions, tokens, spam — is being used to slow Bitcoin's growth, raise node costs, and push the network toward capture. The answer is BIP-110: a node operator's veto.

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Cuando los nodos quieren hablar: una introducción al BIP-110

El BIP-110 es un soft fork temporal y voluntario que busca limitar el uso intensivo de datos arbitrarios en Bitcoin durante un año. Descubre cómo esta propuesta permite a los operadores de nodos expresar sus preferencias técnicas ejecutando reglas concretas, y analiza las perspectivas de defensores y críticos sobre el riesgo de fragmentación del consenso.

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