Focusing solely on fee hikes in the inscription-spam debate overlooks the real issue: culture.
Bitcoin’s power lies in being a pure monetary network, and tacking on metaprotocols—NFTs, tokens, JPEGs—distracts developers and erodes its core purpose.
Yes, miners could be bribed to include spam, but if the network as a whole rejects this practice, venture capitalists won’t fund those meta-protocols.
Finally, Taproot’s introduction of MAST was a huge win—by only revealing the spending script, it slashes on-chain data. Abusing Taproot to scatter JPEG fragments across the chain undermines that benefit and represents a serious misstep in Bitcoin’s evolution.
Last but not least, sorry for the tone I used in my previous post. I am just very disappointed right now at smart people not seeing ANY issue with the current state of the Network and its development.
So when filters are adopted by the non-malicious noders, the problem is solved?
No the problem won't be solved, as unfortunately there is no way to prevent spam in ANY protocol since spam is by definition a protocol-valid-operation.
Protocols handle spam with spam filters that mitigate the problem instead.
So how to exclude data defined as spam from a valid block provided via the protocol?
Since spam transactions are protocol-valid, nodes must accept any valid block—even if it contains spam.
Our spam filters are designed to:
- Discourage VC investment in meta-protocols
- Signal to miners that we prefer not to include these transactions
Please note that MARA (via Slipstream) is currently the only miner processing non-standard transactions, but they appear likely to discontinue the service soon.
So discourage means: restricting someone
And
Signalling to miners: asking them for permission
This does not compute, for me.
> So discourage means: restricting someone
If you don't understand that this does not make sense, there is not much to discuss anymore.
Are you describing an actual 'liberal democracy'?
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Or does that mean that fees are not already signal? And filters means signal on top of signal, correct?
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