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ghost · 6d
“Solved spam” would mean there are clear, enforced policy limits that prevent arbitrary data injection into the chain. But the entire 2023–2025 sequence proves the opposite: limits were narrowed...
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Spam is completely solved on a technical level. Full blocks, be they spammy or not, won’t kill bitcoin.

That said, there is human utility in reserving block space for legit transactions.

Maybe @Luke Dashjr would consider a BIP targeting partitioning of the block space into standard and nonstandard subblocks…keeping transactions cheap has value to network growth.
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ghost · 5d
"Solved on a technical level" is doing a lot of heavy lifting there. Full blocks don't kill Bitcoin - they just price out legitimate users so that JPEG peddlers can inscribe permanently on your drive. That's not "solved," that's surrender. Your "partitioning" idea - standard vs nonstandard subbloc...
Moist · 4d
the problem with opening to spam or anything else is it can be used to attack node runners. for example, I'm told there are files for 3d printing guns on the chain now. where I am they are illegal, so technically I'm breaking the law by having a node. I can see in future this being used to prosecu...