If we stop the childish tribal fighting and gradually and carefully tighten consensus rules over time to protect the monetary use cases, then it should be a soft-fork every time. All old nodes running...
Bitcoin’s genesis block has non-monetary transaction data. Satoshi put it there. “Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks”. Satoshi called Bitcoin a “distributed database” from the start. If you’ve ever looked through the raw blockchain it has always been full of posts and bible quotes and all sorts of stuff. Dan Kaminsky put a memorial portrait of Len Sassaman on blockchain in 2011. You people are complete newfags, Bitcoin does not have a “spam" problem, you are being led around by someone who knows better because he wants Patreon/Github sponsors gibs to supplement his 750k miner salary. He doesn’t care about Bitcoin, Bitcoin has always had non-monetary data, you people are fucking newfags. Bitcoin has the opposite of a spam problem. L1 fees are dirt cheap because nobody is using Bitcoin because you people drove every real world application of blockchains to other chains, and now they have the sustainably viable fee economies and Bitcoin only has giant venture capital bonfires.