Adam Back Responds to Recent Discussions, Explains Why Bitcoin Strongly Rejects BIP 110 Related Filter Fork Proposal
He emphasized that the core of Bitcoin is the cypherpunk philosophy, pursuing decentralized, permissionless hard currency, and any attempt to "police others" or change the default relay policy conflicts with this.
Bitcoin's decentralized mechanism inherently resists mandatory changes; supporters can modify the software themselves but cannot impose it on others, and the technical consensus process provides strong protection.
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As the inventor of Hashcash, Adam Back participated in the cypherpunk decentralized bearer money research in the early days, ran privacy P2P nodes, and has long opposed spam to protect network resources, which directly influences his firm support for changes to the OP_RETURN default policy.
The Bitcoin developer ecosystem achieves "protective change resistance" through IETF-style distributed technical consensus, where hundreds of technical experts can veto unresolved technical issues, ensuring core attributes like decentralization and censorship resistance are not diluted. This path has repeatedly resisted similar soft fork or policy enforcement attempts.
Similar to past Bitcoin community divergences (such as the Block Size Wars), BIP 110 supporters are currently in the "newcomer idealism vs. protocol physical reality" phase, attempting to push changes through emotional appeals and high-level defense arguments, but ultimately face the inevitable result of a fork proving itself.
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Decentralization is not a tool, but an immune system: if you want to police others, you will first be rejected by the system.
The price of freedom is that others also have the freedom to reject you; technical consensus is the true hard currency.
If idealism is not grounded, it will pay tuition with forks; history repeatedly verifies this formula.