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Ali ⚡️علي · 22w
It’s about incentives. Core V30 is encouraging arbitrary data into the chain. Everyone knows you cannot eliminate spam entirely but it can definitely be discouraged by maintaining or further restric...
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I genuinely think it doesn’t matter. Spam will get on chain no matter what. It has no effect on your ability (or anyone’s ability) to use Bitcoin as money. But it does have an effect on miner profitability / centralization.

As an anarchist I believe that nobody has a right to tell anyone else how to use a protocol. That is the conclusion I’ve come to.

I’m personally also not in favor of blowing up OP_RETURN and will never use Bitcoin as anything other than money. In my opinion this use case will price out everything else in due time, but central planning / censorship on the way infringes on Network incentives.
Sleventy3 · 22w
I agree. There's no free lunch. What happens happens
Obaid Aldadi · 22w
It does have an effect on our ability to run nodes. We used to be able to use cheap raspberry pie to run nodes, they no longer work because of the spam on the network bloating the utxo set. Now we must purchase more expensive node hardware to run it. Next up blow open the op_return data carrier lim...