False, you're purposefully conflating a link to content with the content itself. Very dishonest
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There are already JPEGs right in the blockchain, not just links. Been like that for a while.
Bits of a jpeg spread out across a large number of transactions which need to be converted back to hex format and put back together so you can see the content VS. Childporn picture right in the op return as easy to view and upload as drag and drop. And this is the same to you?
Op return already has no consensus limit. If you get a miner to mine it, it gets in there.
This Core change is just about the limits on *relaying* op return prior to mining it. And it still requires a miner to mine it.
The first miner to mine such an image in a single op_return, legal liability or nah?
🤔hmm, now miners need to worry about that and censor. Almost seems like nobody thought of unintended consequences.
Are nodes and miners supposed to start filtering for content types? Is that what you're suggesting prevents the block chain from becoming a repository of smut and cp?
Or are you saying it won't happen because Mara can skip the mempool and it hasn't happened already.
These seem like really poor thought out disingenuous arguments
I think it’s disingenuous to say that this will allow smut in the blockchain when 1) it’s already there and 2) currently possible to put more in there.
If op return had a consensus limit, I might be opposed to the idea of increasing it. But it doesn’t have a consensus limit (other than the block size). Node software just has policies about what size of an op return to relay. And any node software or fork can choose that limit. Once any miner puts it in a block, all nodes have it.
So no, I’m not worried about what was always possible and happening anyway. That is one of the downsides of it being an open, permissionless, decentralized ledger.
But its not already in there. To argue some steganography akin method of getting jpegs into the blockchain means we should just open the flood gates and make it easy for everyone to upload porn and worse makes myself and others wonder if there's not something else going on with peoples motives.
Consensus rules allow for dust transactions, no ones is talking about removing those filters.
The fact that your not worried about bitcoin becoming a cache of smut on my computer as well as the computers of everyone else, when there's every reason to believe there will be no mechanism to stop exactly that says nothing about the health of bitcoin and everything about your respect for our computers.
Wow, very revealing.
"Because no consensus limit", Lyn thinks it's fair game, anything goes, open season on spam. So why make it bigger Lyn? What's the motivation?
Your ignorance whether intentional or not, tells me all I need to know.
Nah, op_return has to be decoded same as anything else. The data is also obfuscated on disk.