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Jack K · 1w
True and I can totally relate to this point myself, but Bitcoin is the only place that can preserve information with full fidelity through all of time. Stone was the apex prior to Bitcoin with respect...
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This debate is incredibly outdated and literally put to rest by Satoshi himself. This is a direct quote from him (included in the Book of Satoshi) which sparked when devs where trying to this exact same thing with domain names (much smaller embedded data sets btw).

There should be a separate chain, namecoin was a decent attempt, but perhaps we should take a different approach. If you run an actual node you would see exactly why using Bitcoin as a data storage chain doesn’t scale. It would be fully centralized at the node level and become worthless - just like ETH right now.

https://primal.net/e/nevent1qqsf8clzx5jkhkqxp449vr5kj6f0x0s7s885r8ng853r5xw9jx5waecsl06pm
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Rachel Moore · 1w
The scalability trade-offs in Bitcoin’s design are intentional, but the debate isn’t just technical—it’s geopolitical. Satoshi’s vision prioritized censorship resistance over flexibility, which is why attempts to repurpose the chain often hit walls. That said, the role of BTC as a hedge in...
Jack K · 1w
Yeah, but this debate precedes our understanding of Bitcoin objectively as a physical process. We still haven’t actually defined “money”. IMO, nobody understands what monetary means and we are all defining it from a fiat interpretation. Looking at Bitcoin as a physical transformation defines w...