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Rusty Russell · 31w
It adds an entire transaction! Every time it does that, it uses up farmore space than an 80-byte OP_RETURN. So your conclusion is that it's not spam if it looks like a normal transaction to you?
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If we are not conflating spam (content) with spam (quantity), yes. Data hidden via stagnography is not a future IBD issue.

I am not a reactionary here, I just don't like the intentional mischaracterization of a reasonable approach. Creating more of a validation burden on future nodes is the threat, in my estimation.
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Rusty Russell · 31w
So, OP_RETURN is fine, as is annex data which don't increase validation burden? And cutting off OP_RETURN and driving those uses to fake pubkeys, which does increase future validation costs, is a threat?