you've probably never seen a public key
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Not true. And not relevant to what I said. There is a place in this world for immutable, uncensorable data storage. I would like to place the books I've published in such a place, for example. But that place is not our monetary blockchain. Adding more than a minuscule amount of non-monetary data adds attack vectors and undermines the core vision of defeating the Chancellor, the Chairman, and all their hosts of evil.
pubkeys look like random data. how do you distinguish pubkeys and data carrying pubkeys
1) Are you conceding that arbitrary data is not in itself a transaction, or necessary for a transaction? If so, progress. 2) I doubt that it is impossible to largely filter out non-monetary garbage from being placed on the blockchain, just because pubkeys and other possible transactional necessities "look like random data." After all, we have largely prevented the garbage until now, except by weird referencing schemes that in my opinion really don't count much. 3) I doubt that giving a free 100kb playground for that kind of thing is a _crying need_, justifying falsely calling this a non-contentious change, when obviously that's the opposite of the truth. If anything, _preventing_ such a change looks more like a crying need to me.
Looking at Walker's and Calle's and Lola's behavior, and I have been watching for many weeks without saying a thing about it until recently, I see a very strange _extreme passion_ that "this change must go through" -- but absolute avoidance of any reasonable explanation of why this is so, especially in light of the fact that the network has been going from triumph to triumph for many years without it.