I’ve been following Matthew for 3 years now and this issue is the first time that I’ve disagreed with him.

The filters aren’t working. If they were, there wouldn’t be any inscriptions. Miners put arbitrary data into blocks because those transactions pay the highest fees. If you don’t like that, the only way to stop it is by rejecting blocks with arbitrary data. That would require a hard fork, which would be terrible for the network.

Even with a hard fork, it would be hard to separate out spam from economic transactions. I think the best way to combat this issue is to increase the share of mining from bitcoiners that care more about the health of the network than profit. Also, decreasing block size might not be a bad idea to increase fees.

I’d like to see Matthew use his platform to offer thoughtful and practical solutions instead of making a fuss about something that filters won’t fix.