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I can imagine some very interesting use cases for inscriptions on chain.

Some ideas I've heard.. New releases of bitcoin core could be published directly to the chain as an inscription.

State whistleblowers feels kinda obvious, but also important.

3D print files also face severe suppression.

Obviously, there are tradeoffs to this capability... Any other use cases you guys have thought of / find interesting? Net positive or net negative to have it?

_ 2y ago

BSV was doing this years ago, now it’s 8 petabytes, lol.

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Semi-Normal 2y ago

Assuming ever block is completely full at 4mb and the difficulty adjustment maintains ~10 minutes per block it will take about 40 thousand years to reach 8 petabytes.

This doesn't change the size that blocks can be, just increases the different kinds of data that could be included and increases the likelihood of available blockspace being used.

_ 2y ago

How much space would Bitcoin core take up?

Btw - I don’t disagree with you. I think high value on chain data has a place. This isn’t new though, BSV has plenty of experience with it.

Semi-Normal 2y ago

Honestly... Not entirely sure, the text of the code can't be that much though... Definitely not megabytes.

_ 2y ago

I have an older copy, the `src` directory is about 18MB uncompressed, 6.6MB compressed.

Semi-Normal 2y ago

Wait, like just the text of the code is that much? PR is that additional stuff needed to compile and run etc?

_ 2y ago

Yep. Although it does include things like leveldb which is 1.2MB which could be stripped out.

Semi-Normal 2y ago

Wow... Way larger than I expected... Maybe split it in to a few inscriptions then :') , definitely feels like bitcoin source code should be there.