The spam issue is CRITICAL. What do you think it did to Bitcoin when transaction use was picking up, then fees SPIKED? People says no ty, BTC is not stable to build on.

WE MUST FIX THIS

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Basically Nobody is using op return for spam, they are using witness and there are no solutions on the table to fix it, just a bunch of noobs crying about things they don't understand tbh

If we think high usage and high fees are bad for Bitcoin, then it has already failed, considering that's how it will fund itself when block rewards drop

Nobody is using op return for spam?

Seems pretty spammy to me

We'll never have high enough fees to replace the missing income from block rewards. I write it down here for posterity. Without a dramatic twist in the incentive model for miners, hashrate is doomed in a couple of halving cycles. Timestamp this post.

As long as sats are valuable enough, even a 5sat/vB fee would be high enough

That's the issue I'm researching now: the decreasing rate of return of sats in USD terms. I don't believe in sustainable unbounded power laws

Were you around in 2017 before Taproot was a thing and fees REALLY spiked?

Barely

Barely spiked? Or you were barely around then? I remember it. Btc hit a high of almost $20k in 2017 and transaction fees shot over $50+ and had nothing to do with spam.