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Alan ₿ · 1w
That only proves the point. There will always be workarounds for Bitcoin spam, like any other type of spam. That doesn’t mean we should give up on fighting spam. Also, Ordinals themselves aren’...
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1. We did not give up on fighting spam. We already have the only viable mechanism in place: small block size + fee market.

2. What point does it prove? The bip isn't even live and there is already a workaround. Only think it proves is that consensus changes is ineffective way of fighting spam.

3. What is most malicious type of smap then? Ordinals bloat utxo set. What is more malicious?

4. There is no "we" in this fight. Bitcoin is decentralized. No single group should be able to control it. Spam is subjective. No single group should be able to decide what spam is and then push consensus change to block it.
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Alan ₿ · 1w
If you do nothing after Core v30 opened up the floodgates to spam, you are essentially giving up on fighting spam. It will always be a cat and mouse game, just like spam in your email inbox. BRC-20 spam bloats the UTXO set more than ordinals, though the most malicious type of all is CSAM. Yes Bitcoi...
nostrich · 6d
Explain to me like I’m 5yr old how a “fee market” where person A takes the fees and person B incurs the costs/legal risks (without receiving any fees) will somehow prevent person A from allowing more and more data that person B needs to store.