The miners did not "get together" they just didn't do anything.
Opening OP_RETURN had no significant effect on bloat as block sizes themselves are the same as they always were.
I am a miner myself, I run a signifigant number of machines with one of the "Big Companies" but I could change my pool any time I wanted, remotely, in 30 seconds.
Do you folks really not understand that these "big companies" have thousands of thousands of customers running say 2-10 ASICS each. They are more hosting companies that mining companies. I can assure you the miners didn't have a big meeting, we just ignored this.
More honestly. Most didn't even know you existed. You guys live in a Nostr/X bubble where you think every Bitcoin is for or against your thing of the day. Most are unaware, they just consider Bitcoin money and an investment. They buy, mine, hodl and ignore the noise.
You were all lied to for MONTHS leading up to 8-8. Many of us told you the truth about why it would not work. In response you called us pedos, suit coiners, bitcoin tourists, etc. And most of us that bothered to tell you were long time old school bitcoiners. I go back to 2012, earlier really but 12 is when I started accepting BTC in my business, got into self custody and started to DCA.
Just may be people like me have seen this type of thing before and know how it ends.
8-8 came, exactly what we told you would happen did. Now Luke and Mechanic are telling you forking a new coin can become "The Real Bitcoin" and we are telling you that can't happen this way. No exchanges will list your shit coin, no one will use it, and it will fail harder than BSV.
When that happens will you realize Luke is insane at this point and Kratter and Mechanic and such are scamming you? Or will you now say, "the exchanges colluded against us" and something about Pedos and three other conspiracies thrown in?
When will you admit that those of us who told you the truth you didn't want to hear were at least the ones being honest with you?
jackspirko / Jack Spirko
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2026-08-18 12:39:04 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…qx9a
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