An open letter to Bitcoin Core, Any serious attempt by Bitcoin Core to tighten policy rules or censor Ordinals and Runes transactions will be met with decisive action. If necessary, the $DOG Army will fund the development and maintenance of an open source fork of Bitcoin Core that strips out nearly all policy rules, and that thousands of people will run to make it abundantly clear that Bitcoin is and must always remain censorship resistant. The Ordinals and Runes ecosystem is tired of being gaslit for actually using BTC as money every day while contributing over half a billion dollars in transaction fees to strengthen Bitcoin’s security. I am not here to virtue signal like @adam3us or represent a bunch of broke, conspiracy theory lovers like @LukeDashjr. There are over twenty Bitcoin startups that operate economically relevant nodes and have collectively broadcast nearly half of all Bitcoin transactions over the past two years that would welcome the expanded design space for their applications and protocols that opens up if they were only required to adhere to consensus rules rather than arbitrary policy restrictions. I have also had the privilege of speaking directly with miners and mining pools representing more than 50% of Bitcoin’s total hash rate. I can state with certainty that they will accept any consensus valid Bitcoin transactions with competitive fees attached if the process is made simple and secure. There is no meaningful difference between normalizing the censorship of JPEG or memecoin transactions and normalizing the censorship of certain monetary transactions by nation-states. Both would set very dangerous precedents. The $DOG Army and the Ordinals and Runes ecosystem will not sit idly by while transaction censorship is normalized on Bitcoin. We will defend the principles that have always set Bitcoin apart, such as open access, censorship resistance, and neutrality at the base layer.