Block space is a free market and is paid for with mining fees.

You sound like you want to censor people. 🤮

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The statement commits the noncentral fallacy (also known as the category error or the worst argument in the world). It labels the act of filtering certain Bitcoin transactions as “censorship,” invoking the strong negative connotations of that term (typically associated with authoritarian suppression of free speech or ideas), even though the action in question is atypical of the category—more akin to spam filtering or network moderation by decentralized participants rather than centralized control over expression. The premise that “all Bitcoin transactions are data” is used to blur distinctions and amplify the loaded term, but it doesn’t logically establish the conclusion.

Your monkey-brained jpegs can stay the hell out of my node. Use Bitcoin for money ONLY or you can kick digital rocks as far as I care.

But there’s literally nothing you can do about it. Bitcoin is uncensorable. Are you new?

Oh yes, but there is plenty we can do about it, pal. We can choose to run software like Knots that allows us node runners (who set the rules everyone has to follow whether they like it or not), to kick out all of your garbage, non-monetary spam.

And the awesome part is the game theory will make it so that less and less people over time will run bogus nodes that have op_return bloat, and instead will opt out towards Knots instead.

Folks like you will simply fade into irrelevance as Bitcoin only becomes more efficient as a monetary technology.

You are a horse rider arguing against driving a car.

You’re a bot