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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻

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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻

@oomahq

Running BIP-110🪢 & DATUM🌊 | @BcnBitcoinOnly elder | Activate #OP_DROP_CGT | Distributed Authoritarian | 5 Ph/s home miner of last resort

Joined November 2024

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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
May 30
If you're a Bitcoin noderunner you're much more powerful and sovereign than you probably realize. There is actually very little global hashrate, and it's very cheap to control it with your node. Yesterday at the @bcc8333 conference I brought a @start9labs node that remotely
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
May 2, 2025
There's a lot of FUD and misconceptions flying around @LukeDashjr's @BitcoinKnots node software, so it's the perfect subject for a thread! 🧵 If you're thinking about dumping Bitcoin Core but you're on the fence because you know nothing about Knots, this thread is for you.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Sep 20, 2025
I don't know who needs to hear this, but node runners matter a lot more than developers. If you think I'm being flippant consider all the shitcoins out there with their millions of developers and ~zero node runners.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Oct 8, 2025
If you only learn one thing about the OP_RETURN drama, make it this: The biggest threat to Bitcoin's censorship resistance is that the biggest pools stop mining on top of blocks found by anyone, and start mining only on top of blocks found by a small cartel of pools. Another
Matt Corallo 🟠
@TheBlueMatt
Oct 8, 2025
If you only learn one thing about the OP_RETURN drama, make it this. From a network perspective, the most important risk to Bitcoin’s longevity is mining centralization, by far. Just when we’re on the cusp of making transaction selection decentralized with Braidpool, P2PoolV2,
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Oct 21, 2025
Thanks for the shout-out Matt, but especially thanks for spreading the word 🫡
Matthew R. Kratter #BIP-110
@mattkratter
Oct 21, 2025
Another Bitcoin Core Smoking Gun
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Jun 1, 2025
Erik Voorhees
@ErikVoorhees
May 31, 2025
Replying to @DavidFBailey
The toxic maxis are the absolute worst part of the entire movement. Their allegiance is to brand and idol-worship, not to principle. But Bitcoin is only useful, only virtuous, to the degree it brings its underlying principles into the world. And wherever else those same
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Apr 28, 2025
Seems like an ol' thread to debunk this nonsense is in order 🧵 Between blocks 877325 (01 Jan 2025) and 894289 (today) there's 30 non-std OP_RETURN txs out of 7 million, or 0.004246903% of the total. That's a 99.995753097% success rate for the 83 byte limit spam filter in 2025.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Oct 27, 2025
I don't know who needs to read this, but the Reduced Data Soft Fork proposal is not in response to inscription spam. It is in response to Core abdicating responsibility to properly steward the reference Bitcoin client.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Oct 1, 2025
Remember the arbitrariness of the Samourai and Tornado Cash devs prosecutions. If you feel 100000% sure that Bitcoin Core sanctioning large chunks of arbitrary data embedding as an officially supported use case of the Bitcoin network won't have any consequences you're full of
Nick Szabo
@NickSzabo4
Oct 1, 2025
Replying to @LeeroyBitcoins @phyrooo and 5 others
You calling it absurd isn't going to influence the lawyers. They have their own precedents and their own ideas. If node operators have knowledge that they are hosting illegal data, they are probably criminally liable in many jurisdictions. (Whether or when prosecutors choose to
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
May 24, 2025
Throwback to when Bitcoin developers still called bad actors like MARA "adversarial miners" and were worried about witness space being (ab)used to store arbitrary data.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Jun 4, 2025
The OP_RETURN thread is way due for an update 🧵 I'm happy to report that the spammers took my challenge seriously and for the month of May (blocks 894655 to 899281) we saw 13325 non-std OP_RETURNs on the chain. That's 443x times what we saw from January to April 2025!
Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Apr 28, 2025
Seems like an ol' thread to debunk this nonsense is in order 🧵 Between blocks 877325 (01 Jan 2025) and 894289 (today) there's 30 non-std OP_RETURN txs out of 7 million, or 0.004246903% of the total. That's a 99.995753097% success rate for the 83 byte limit spam filter in 2025.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Sep 22, 2025
Great banger from mystery shitposter.
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
Oct 13, 2025
Weird, I was repeatedly told that it was already possible to mine large OP_RETURNs way before Core v30 was released.
Electron Arc-20 (₿itcoin) ⚛️
@Electron_ARC20
Oct 12, 2025
🔥 Bitcoin Core v30.0 just opened a new era for metaprotocols on Bitcoin. With this update, OP_RETURN removes the 80-byte limit, allowing multiple data fragments to be emitted within a single transaction. Plus, the minimum relay fee is reduced to 0.1 sat/vB, making it cheaper to
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Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
May 10, 2025
This is such a gem from Bitcoin Core's v0.13 release notes that I didn't notice while writing the article. Back in 2016 Bitcoin Core developers recommended pool operators to enforce all common mempool policy to avoid orphan blocks. How things have changed!
Extractive Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻
@oomahq
May 10, 2025
I'm doing a stint as a thinkboi with an opinion article, thanks to @EuropeanBTC21 for hosting it. I tried to steelman the developer's PoV for the 80IQ plebs, and make a better case for filters/DATUM than what it's possible on Twitter. Hope you enjoy it. europeanbitcoiners.com/lopp_return-wa…
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