It's been working fine. Dunno what you're talking about. If fees rise, spam is the first thing that gets axed. Just because fees are low and there is spam doesn't mean they don't work to stop it. Bitcoin is the most expensive way to store data in the world.
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It requires an impressive level of ignorance and mental gymnastics to think that Bitcoin block space is cheaper than cloud providers / filebase / IPFS / Storj.
Not really
In 2023 and 2024, there were several periods where Ordinal inscriptions alone represented 50% to 60% of all on-chain transactions. As of late 2025, daily data continues to show that these data-heavy transactions occupy a massive share of the network's activity.
Bitcoin may be the most expensive way to store data, but what if you factored in storing data FOREVER? How much do other providers charge to keep your data FOREVER?
Google has been storing videos for free since it was made.
I don't want Bitcoin to be like Google
It's not. There's a reason they store kilobytes and not megabytes...
Also, videos stored on Google are removed all the time for violating their T&S. This is not a thing with Bitcoin. Obviously, people are choosing Bitcoin to store spam. I do not find it acceptable. The Cat can't come soon enough.