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America turns 250 today. A good day to remember what happens when people stop fighting each other and unite around one mission. We are all Bitcoiners. So today felt like the right day to finish this.

Bitcoiners are at war with each other over spam and data. Core vs Knots. Both sides are right about something, and that is exactly why neither side can win. I built a middle path with AI, measured against 439,000+ real transactions.

THE FIGHT IN ONE MINUTE
Core says: do not judge transactions. If it pays the fee, it gets in. Filters are censorship, and they do not work anyway.
Knots says: Bitcoin is money, not a hard drive. Spam floods blocks at a 75% discount, raising fees and burdening node runners.

MY SUGGESTION, TWO PARTS
1. Keep the discount for money, end it for bulk data. The first 2,000 bytes per input stay discounted. Every wallet, multisig, and Lightning transaction changes by exactly zero. Past 2,000 is still allowed, it just pays full price. Spam loses its coupon.
2. Give data a proper parking spot. A separate lane where data is stamped and provable forever, but nodes never have to store it. Credit where due: this half builds on a concept from Samson Mow. The 2,000 byte cap is my contribution. Together they meet in the middle.

WHO ACTUALLY PAYS MORE? ALMOST NOBODY.
We measured 439,000+ real inputs across Bitcoin's modern era:
A typical transaction uses about 104 bytes. That is 5% of the cap.
The biggest real money transaction we found: 696 bytes.
A 15 of 15 vault (1,608 bytes), the biggest setup anyone realistically uses: still under the cap. Pays ZERO extra.
The only standard setup that would ever pay more is a 20 of 20 multisig, the absolute maximum Bitcoin allows. It never appeared once in our sample. If someone uses one someday, it pays about 100 extra vbytes, typically well under a dollar. Never blocked.
Now compare a picture: a jpeg runs 20,000 to 100,000+ bytes. The image spam we measured went past 200,000. Money and pictures live in completely different size worlds. A line at 2,000 never touches money.
Bottom line: not ONE real money transaction we measured, 51,906 in the independent draw, would pay a single extra sat. Only bulk data and spam pay more. That is not a side effect. That is the design.

"BUT I DONT WANT CP AND DICK PICS ON BITCOIN"
Neither do I. Know what is actually on chain: there are NO pictures on Bitcoin. Only scrambled bytes. An image only exists when an outside website decodes it, and THOSE sites are where blocking actually works: takedowns and real legal liability. No protocol rule can read content. Encryption makes any file look like random noise. Anyone promising a filter for bad content is promising the impossible. Worse, BitMEX flagged that ban style rules hand criminals a weapon: embedding illegal content on purpose to force chain chaos.

VERSUS BIP-110
No frozen coins. Nothing ever becomes invalid, so no coin can ever be stranded. Its own critics documented cases where its bans could freeze some coins forever.
No chain split gamble. This activates at 90%+ agreement or not at all.
No censorship fight. The rule counts bytes, never reads content.
BIP-110's own text says the year it buys is for developing a longer term solution. This is my attempt at one, offered in peace before the August window, to both sides.

FULL TRANSPARENCY
I am not a protocol developer. The concept is mine, AI did the heavy technical lifting, and every number is reproducible. The scripts and all 440k measured inputs are published. ₿itcoin Radar stays neutral. This proposal is personal.

The paper, a plain English explainer, the scripts, and the data:
https://t.co/MdvtE58rZv

If the idea holds up, any developer is welcome to carry it. Credit is all I ask.

250 years ago, thirteen colonies that did not fully trust each other united around one mission and changed the world. We can do the same. Happy 4th. Let's get back to one mission. ₿itcoin 🟠