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Filters are a form of censorship, because they introduce subjective judgment into an otherwise neutral protocol. The moment a group decides what qualifies as “spam,” they’re no longer just validating transactions — they’re enforcing ideology.

Bitcoin was designed to be neutral. If a transaction pays the required fee and follows consensus rules, it is valid. Period. Adding filters changes that — it creates a class of “unwanted” transactions even if they are technically valid.

Miners play a crucial role here — and inscriptions and ordinals have contributed a significant share of miner revenue, especially during periods of low monetary transaction volume. That’s a market signal. It proves demand, and it helps secure the network by increasing fees and hash incentive.

To censor that flow — through filters or relaying policies — is not only ideological, it’s economically reckless.

Cykros 4mo ago

My computer is not neutral. It is mine. You're free to relay what you like.

The idea that Bitcoin should somehow be neutral in all ways is an odd one. Bitcoin is money -- something that by its nature is designed to keep score. To let us see the winners and the losers.

That it is even possible to upload jpeg's to the blockchain is simply a failure for developers to solve a technical problem: how to prevent it without impeding the ability to manage the monetary use of the network.

As such, we can't (yet) stop the spam from getting through. But nothing says any of us needs to take part in actively assisting it in doing so.

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Cykros 4mo ago

And yes, if there does come a day where we have a proposed change to Bitcoin that prevents non-monetary transactions, I'll be in favor of it. Including a hard fork. The sooner the vandalism stops, the better.

GLACA 4mo ago

You are free to have your opinion but I personally keep myself in check and try to add in my opinion it is this and that as It's an ongoing project and I don't think anyone can say it is 100% only money. It's a weird concept and in 100 years it might be a huge data base basic layer of the whole humanity reaching far beyond monetary use.

It's odd that so many people claim to know exactly what bitcoin is and what it isn't.

Cykros 4mo ago

It's a human creation. It is what we decide it is.

It's sort of like being a man.You can choose to live with principles, and establish yourself with a backbone, or you can "see what happens."

Those who "see what happens" tend not to be the ones that achieve greatness, however.

Magick is the science and art of causing change to occur in conformity with Will. Not the observance and pondering about what might happen if we avoid making any decisions.

I for one choose Magick Internet Money.