How will node runners decide? Does the software have to be updated? Does this mean a hard fork for every "cautious change"?
What is part of the resource growth can be actually attributed to spam? So...
The censorship argument is a logical fallacy pushed by hardline libertarians, spammers and some Core devs who mean well but don’t think adversarially enough. It’s a propaganda tool that tugs on the heartstrings of many Bitcoiners.
Protecting the protocol from abuse by people who have no interest in protecting its monetary properties is not “censorship”. Limiting financial transactions based on a blacklist of UTXOs or IP address, or amount would be censorship.
Consensus rules already set limits. Why are all the existing limits not considered to be censorship? Why can’t I currently have a 10MB transaction - does that mean I’m being censored by Core or Nodes or Miners? Obviously it’s not censorship - it’s limiting the protocol to its intended purpose.
SegWit and Taproot resulted in unexpected consequences that made Ordinals and other spam possible - it would be unreasonable to say we should not change anything to fix that mistake. We should always be willing to fix mistakes and unintended consequences.
Protecting the protocol from abuse by people who have no interest in protecting its monetary properties is not “censorship”. Limiting financial transactions based on a blacklist of UTXOs or IP address, or amount would be censorship.
Consensus rules already set limits. Why are all the existing limits not considered to be censorship? Why can’t I currently have a 10MB transaction - does that mean I’m being censored by Core or Nodes or Miners? Obviously it’s not censorship - it’s limiting the protocol to its intended purpose.
SegWit and Taproot resulted in unexpected consequences that made Ordinals and other spam possible - it would be unreasonable to say we should not change anything to fix that mistake. We should always be willing to fix mistakes and unintended consequences.