There has never been any OP codes called "anyonecanspend" ever in Bitcoin.

You can easily check what I said above on regtest or testnet, as I said your output script (ie. scriptpub) is NOT checked so you can dump anything WITHOUT using any OP codes in there with any size (of course smaller than block size).
The ONLY thing preventing you from doing it is the standard rules where nodes don't relay your "valid" but spamy transaction.

That was cute

Wrong, US government owns 30 million BTC

You are wrong again, US government clicked 30 million times to create 30 million wallets to store 30 million bitcoin
He changed his mouth 3 million times to make 30 million clicks.

I can only think of weird ways of abusing the scripts but they all involve you stealing your own coins which make no sense. That is because in a collision you have to create two different messages that produce the same hash, the hash that would be used in a pay to script script meaning you are creating the output script yourself.

By changing the hash algorithms that are used, for example by switching to version 3 of SHA.

If you publish the collision, anybody would be able to spend the reward of these puzzles. That's about it.

The only difference is the size and the algorithm, otherwise all hash functions deal with bytes although the algorithm is defined to work with octet strings, they are all implement to deal with full octets (ie. the algorithm is defined to let you compute the hash of a 1 bit input but implementations don't let you and it has to be padded to 8 bits).

I'm not trying to fight anything, this IS how we have been fighting spam all along. The same arguments you made about miners being able to include non-standard transactions could have been made about literary any other form of injecting garbage into the blockchain (eg. placing ~1 MB garbage entirely in your scriptpub).

You can't distinguish among the standard scripts that contain the garbage but you can easily distinguish it when they are doing something non-standard. In case of the Ordinals Attack things are actually too obvious to distinguish.

Witness parts of transaction contribute less to the transaction weight, hence they are cheaper not "completely free".
To be honest I'm not sure if you are trolling since it is very surprising to see one of the oldest forum members and the owner of one of the oldest mining pools has no idea how Bitcoin works!

It depends on the scale of the war, the region and how many or who is involved in the direct armed conflict. The chaos large scale wars like the two European Wars also known as World Wars 1 and 2 create benefit those who stay far away from that chaos like United States. In WW2 for example, US benefited the most since it was far away and wasn't impacted as much as say Europe itself which then led to giving US tremendous amount of power which they abused in the past 80 years.

The Russian-NATO war is a medium scale war at best since it is focused in one small area of the world and the impacts are different depending on the distance and involved in the actual conflict for each country.
For example US like the WW2 is benefiting the most since they could successfully rescue their failing economy for the time being by creating more market for their exports (eg. LNG to Europe or the massive increase in weapons sale) that couldn't have existed without this war.
Other countries like Europe (different countries in the region with different degrees but all the same) are negatively impacted since they are being abused by US (ie. selling much more expensive LNG to Europe instead of the super cheap Russian gas they used to receive) so the impact is huge and negative. Like the ongoing deindustrialization in Europe.

Other countries that are also far from this conflict are seeing a range of different effects depending on their involvement and level of independence. For example a country that lacks independence like Japan is being forced into suffering negative economical impacts while countries with more independence like China are taking advantage of this situation and are expanding their economy (China is actually reporting high growths these days!) by having access to cheaper energy, taking over markets that were left by Europeans, attracting investment and industries that left regions like Europe, etc.

With the rest of the countries being in between like Turkey, India, etc. that are experiencing both negative and positive impacts. Like Turkey taking advantage of the chaos to seek benefits geopolitically speaking.

That's just a summary though, your question can't be answered any better due to the broad nature of it. It is best to analyze the situation per country not as a whole. For example even in a region like Europe there are major differences between each country like Italy seeing a different impact than France for instance and they are both different from a country like Latvia in Eastern Europe.

That's how it starts. They don't go all the way from the start. Gavin wasn't nuts in 2010, he slowly went crazy, visited CIA office, started proposing weird things for bitcoin, abandoned bitcoin development and eventually claimed the obvious scammer CSW is the real Satoshi!

As I said above, it seems like core devs go nuts after some time. Another case is Mike Hearn who dumped all his bitcoin and said "bitcoin has failed and is dead" back in 2016. lol

No, we should call on nodes to reject spam transactions that are abusing the system and never relay such transactions. This is in accordance with the principles of bitcoin, the peer-to-peer electronic cash system and is against the principles of bitcoin, the permit anything file storage system.

Apart from the massive amount of FUD that is out there about Bitcoin, sometimes the people who tell others about bitcoin are doing a terrible job. For example back in 2012-2013 someone introduced bitcoin to me by telling me something like "you get paid by using your PC to solve mathematical equations". Obviously I thought that is a dumb thing and logically I ignored bitcoin altogether until about 2 years later in 2014 where I was introduced to bitcoin again but this time as a "censorship resistant currency that you can use without needing any middle man" and obviously I was hooked right away regretting the lost couple of years.

Nowadays things are the same still. There are people who introduce bitcoin as a lot of weird things like as a "profit making" tool which you invest in! This is obviously one of the reasons the adoption is this slow.
This is also why I have always tried to introduce Bitcoin to others as a currency not an investment or something you mine, etc.

Historically the bitcoin consensus rules about things that aren't checked have been loose (they still are) for example your output script can be literary anything like an invalid script or any arbitrary data of any size like a picture that is not even a script.
This is a good thing because it allows future expansion through soft forks but also it could lead to abuse of the system and spam attacks.

Over the years to prevent such abuse (eg. placing arbitrary junk in your scriptpub) more and more standard rules were introduced where the nodes rejected such non-standard transactions from their mempool and refused to relay them hence it successfully prevented spam.

When it comes to SegWit, the rules are flexible in many places that allows future expansions but only some of them were prevented as non-standard while others fell through the cracks and helped creation of attacks such as Ordinals.

The fee market only works for normal spam attack types but not with a incentivized spam attack. Ordinals is the later and the bigger it gets and the bigger market that it gains the bigger the spam is going to get because people who are gambling with these shittokens don't care about paying a higher fee.
Exactly like what the exchanges do, a gambler trading shittokens on CEX doesn't care much about paying a high withdrawal fee.

They actually created the shitcoin called bcash using the same principles of BIP148, it was even called MASF (mocking the UASF thing). That is a minority group creating a fork disregarding the rest of the network (including miners' votes).

I never said they do anywhere! But you can't deny that miners are an important part of the network and attacks like BIP148 are completely ignoring/eliminating miners.

Here is a guide: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Setting_up_a_Tor_hidden_service

But you don't need to do that as I said if the US regime decides to place such restrictions, those running the nodes in US would be at risk not the rest of the world. Keep in mind that it would be trivial to get these nodes to relay certain transactions that would get them shut down by US authorities and the node operators arrested. So they either have to try so hard to hide or stop running nodes altogether.

The presence of Takfiri terrorists (who aren't all Syrian even though they're transferred from there) can be verified from 3 sources:
1. The eye witnesses in Syria seeing the transfer of these troops usually with the help of Turkey and US over the past year to Ukraine. And the fact that their numbers in places like Idlib has decreased.
2. The videos showing them inside Ukraine fighting on Ukraine's side even among the high ranks
3. The methods of fighting that is being used like the Urban Warfare which these terrorists have a lot of experience in because of what they did to Syria, or like using quadcopters to drop grenades on foot soldiers which has ISIL written all over it.

But I agree that the number of them and what percentage they have in armed forces of Ukraine is disputable considering there isn't any reliable stats out there yet.

I doubt the number of people "resisting" really matters to oppressive regimes. If their perceived threat is big enough, they won't hesitate. There are already certain sanctions US government has in place involving bitcoin such as the list of bitcoin addresses that OFAC has placed under sanctions lol.
The only reason they aren't (or better say can't) enforce it is because bitcoin is decentralized so they have little to no power here. They may only put some pressure on domestic centralized exchanges.

The https://mempool.space/ has been doing a pretty good job with a simple understandable UI. It has the values in both satoshi and dollar.


There is also https://jochen-hoenicke.de/queue/#BTC,24h,weight which is a very old tool to visualize the mempool and see the total size for each fee level. But it is not the most user friendly.
And of course there are wallets such as Electrum that also do a pretty good job at giving the user a good fee estimation.

Maybe they are trying to prove there is no "uniqueness" despite what the attackers are advertising The Ordinals Attack as.

That is similar to basically what the fee market does. Nodes all have a finite amount of memory to keep unconfirmed transactions in, when they surpass their limit they start dropping transactions with lowest fee.
Although you don't remove the junk from blockchain, just the mempool and until they rebroadcast the same junk or the junk with higher fee.

If someone is living in a dictatorship that would fine or jail people for running a bitcoin/LN node then maybe they should be the ones running their node through TOR or stop using bitcoin altogether. The number of countries US has sanctioned is far higher than just 5 and things are going to get worse the weaker US dollar gets specially as bitcoin adoption grows globally while more countries join the "dedollarization" bandwagon.

In any case, is it just me or do core devs/contributors go nuts after a while to the point that they even go against the very basic principles of Bitcoin? There certainly is a pattern here with Andresen as its pioneer. What the hell is happening behind the scenes to these guys
Has "someone" with a 3 letter name been targeting them?

Wrong.
First of all not letting people abuse this payment system that is supposed to handle money transfers is not against censorship-resistance or permissionlessness of bitcoin. In fact it is enforcing them. You see these concepts doesn't mean you should allow people to do whatever they want. Rejecting such attack transactions is also not new, there are dozens of tx types that we are rejecting. In order to keep the integrity of the system we need to do that.

It also doesn't need malicious actors to spam the network, the spam would take place naturally and ruin bitcoin as a payment system. Don't forget that it wasn't malicious people who used cryptokitties or buy any other shittoken on shitplatforms like ethereum!

Dollar is a weapon and US regime knows how to wield it.

Obviously! China's dream is to replace US as the global hegemony. Maybe not with colonizing and murder of tens of millions of people but still similar power abuse is expected from China in the future also.

The bulk of Armed Forces of Ukraine is no longer Ukrainian at this point, it consists of some "unofficial" NATO troops and takfiri terrorists transferred from Syria to fight Russia. Besides, a large part of Ukraine population has already fled the country. Considering how they've shown to fight for a decade in Syria, I agree that Ukraine can keep it up against Russia.

You are right about NATO (more specifically Europe) not being able to afford this war for that long but US is calling the shots, not Europe, nor Zelensky specially since he is just a pawn. And US doesn't want this war to end this soon or the benefits of it would stop too.
So the real question is how much longer Europe can withstand de-industrialization and how much longer they can violently suppress the mass economical and anti-NATO protests before they change their position.