The trees obscure the forest
A summary:
Ways to insert data:
1) OP_RETURN outputs (“nulldata”)
You put the bytes in a non-spendable output (scriptPubKey starting with OP_RETURN).
Advantage...
Let me tell you a story.
Learning from Ants
“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the #bitcoin jar… and why?”
Learning from Ants
“If you catch 100 red fire ants as well as 100 large black ants, and put them in a jar, at first, nothing will happen. However, if you violently shake the jar and dump them back on the ground the ants will fight until they eventually kill each other. The thing is, the red ants think the black ants are the enemy and vice versa, when in reality, the real enemy is the person who shook the jar. This is exactly what’s happening in society today. The real question we need to be asking ourselves is who’s shaking the #bitcoin jar… and why?”
