Until that time, there could be a big build of bad stuff that will be permanent. Then, all nodes will be storing that forever.

Have you watched/read anything by nostr:nprofile1qy8hwumn8ghj7mn2w4khqtndv5hszythwden5te0dehhxarj9ekxzmny9uqzpprrqa5g5z0vzy5k06c9gnnc485gcj84qufv88k5j8ljkmaqrxhgkgzyc0 nostr:nprofile1qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3uamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3dwp6kytnhv4kxcmmjv3jhytnwv46z7qpqwnlu28xrq9gv77dkevck6ws4euej4v568rlvn...

Incentives are the only things that matter. We will see how this plays out.

Natural incentives may eliminate the addition of new layers of it in time. They will never remove the scar tissue that has already accumulated. The chain will grow in time, but then, so does hard drive space and processing power. Spam pulls that growth forward, putting node ownership less in rea...

I was on the fence about switching to Knots but this exact point made me stay with Core. Though I respect the Knots people and I might run Knots one day

Exactly my friend, free markets have a way of pricing out nonsense

Cultural deterioration may leads to failure of the project. Ultimately bitcoin rely on good human actions.

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Spam is any information in the chain that isn’t monetary. Since bitcoin dematerialises money to information, there is no way to stop arbitrary information on chain. Relying on “good” behaviour isn’t what bitcoin is about, it’s about relying on “self-interested” behaviour. If illegal ...

My two sats: if bitcoin was more peer to peer than HODL, then spam would have been eliminated already. Empty blocks are like bored kids. They're going to figure out something to do with it, and probably not going to be good.