It is impossible to know with certainty what side I would adopt Satoshi: Core or Knots.
However, the creator was quite open and flexible with the purpose of Bitcoin,
The calm consensus reigns one day. The hierarchy of values that governs society is clear, determined: everyone agrees. Suddenly, an abrupt change suspends the ways of life. People begin to face. First with words; Then with clubs. They create sects and sides. In the violent process, leaders who promise new orders. Each offers the north of a different Bethlehem star.
Some do not seduce what gives birth to chaos. Looking for security, they prefer to refer to the defined past: to the ancestors. The ancestors … if they were able to transport the light of life until now, shouldn’t they know anything about him? Isn’t it likely that the formula for critical problems will rest on the legacy?
Although Bitcoin cut the placenta with his father, the words of Satoshi Nakamoto, the creator of Bitcoin, They are emerging as a consultation book at a high point of the debate Among the promoters of Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots, the main software to execute the protocol.
It is evident that Bitcoin no longer belongs to Satoshi, and there is no guarantee that the protocol goes (or has to) adhere to his Original model. In that sense, their ideas applied to Bitcoin, Op_return and inscriptions can relativize, reinterpret or ignore themselves completely.
However, for the one who has ears, Satoshi has something to say about What is Bitcoin; Or even more, serve as a moderator of the discussion from the hereafter. The thoughts of the inventor of the cryptoactive can help organize the debate, to demolish new myths; to prune the quality of the opponents’ arguments.
What can never be said about Satoshi is that he saw Bitcoin as an absolute (or absolutist) system of electronic money. The proof of this is easy to give. Simply refer to the Genesis of the cryptoactive to find a digital inscription carved by Nakamoto himself.
The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on Brink of Second Bailout for Banks.
Satoshi Nakamoto, Genesis block.
“The Times 03/Jan/2009: The Chancellor at the edge of a second rescue for the banks,” says the translated phrase.
The Account in x De Mining Disrupt, one of Bitcoin’s mining events where cryptootics has been present, clarifies that Satoshi did not use Segwit neither Op_return To “register” the famous holder of the Times. On the other hand, he did it in the entry field (scriptsig) of a coinbase transaction, as can be seen directly in the Genesis block.
By a peculiarity of the code of Genesis block (It is not known if by error of Satoshi) the first mining subsidy in history (50 BTC) is considered intimate.
This makes it not strange to affirm that, in addition to serving as the first link in an immutable block chain that has expanded until today, the first case of use of BTC was the storage and transmission and/or data communication, and did not have a monetary end in itself. Therefore, there is no way to defend (and I think no one has done it, by the way) that Satoshi Nakamoto was against the non -monetary uses of Bitcoin.
All debate on inscriptions in the system will have to function on a moderation basis, since arbitrary data were born with Bitcoin. They are not a mutant appendix product of their digital evolution.
Although emotional positions in the debate tend to the extremes, the technical arguments do not. As Cryptoics reported, the battle between Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots will not be decided by a radical admission or a total prohibition of arbitrary data in the system. The battle will be determined, rather, in case Bitcoin It becomes a protocol of broad or reduced limits in its non -monetary functions.
It is ruled out, then, that Satoshi will think badly or prohibitively of registrations.
As Cryptonotics deduced at the time and now mentions the Bitcoin maximalist @ThevladcostaSatoshi could have had a broad conception of Bitcoin’s purpose and utility, at least at the beginning.
Bitcoin Core’s first version It contained unfinished codes of an eBay -style electronic market and a casino with Bitcoin. These codes («Cpokerdialogbase», «CpokerLobbydialogbase», «Market.cpp») They can be understood as the schemes of the first decentralized applications in Bitcoin.
Today, they survive as fragments. Satoshi did not bother to hide or eliminate them, which makes it difficult to regret non -monetary uses in Bitcoin.
@Thevladcosta also cites a post of Satoshi Nakamoto, dated December 9, 2019, where the creator, with an open, playful and creative attitude, conceives the possibility of practicing dual mining between BTC and Bitdnsthe token of a Bitcoin domain name project. Today, dual mining is a reality (such as Bitcoin and fractal Bitcoin).
Satoshi goes further in his playful exploration of Bitcoin’s possibilities When it fantasizes with an immense interconnected network, without divisions:
Instead of fragmentation, the networks share and increase the total power of CPU with each other. This would solve the problem that, if there are several networks, they put each other in danger if the available CPU power joins one. On the other hand, all the networks of the world would share the combined CPU power, thus increasing the total power. This would facilitate the start of small networks by taking advantage of an available miners.
Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
On June 17, 2010, recalls an X user known as @Kyl ___ 10, Satoshi said they want to admit All types of transactions possible.
Bitcoin’s nature is such that once version 0.1 was launched, the central design was recorded in stone for the rest of its useful life. Therefore, I wanted to design it to admit all the types of possible transactions that occurred to me. The problem was that everything required a special support code and data fields, whether it was used or not, and only covered a special case at the same time. It would have been an explosion of special cases. The solution was the script, which generalizes the problem so that the parts that make transactions can describe their transaction as a predicate that evaluates the nodes network. The nodes only need to understand the transaction to the point of evaluating whether the conditions of the sender are met.
Satoshi Nakamoto, creator of Bitcoin.
The evidence is accumulated, then, that Satoshi saw in Bitcoin a multipurpose protocol, open to lateral developments, to expand in different directions. Your thinking about non -monetary uses on the network and the protocol leaves no doubt: Bitcoin is an open system to the novelties.
Now, fitting their opinions in the debate about Op_return and Datacarrieresize between Core and Knots is more difficult, and inadmissible daring. Especially because neither of the two clients advocate, I repeat, for prohibiting non -monetary use cases in Bitcoin, such as Registration.
One encourages them (Core) or seems to do it, with the increase in the limit to 100,000 bytes with version 30 of the client that will be released in October.
The other (Knots) limits them, or more exactly, acts conservatively keeping the default threshold for this type of transactions: 83 bytes.
It is true that, while actively worked in the protocol, Satoshi never saw that the use of non -monetary transactions would exceed monetary. We do not know if in the presence of such a fact I would have preferred to strengthen the limits of Bitcoin’s capabilities, to dedicate it entirely to its main essence: to be money.
However, the evidence is clear suggesting that Nakamoto was a promoter of non -monetary uses of BTC, and that it would not be strange if he would validate Core’s decisions about Bitcoin’s future. But that Satoshi arrives and clarified it. Meanwhile, we prefer to keep the doubt.
