Bitcoin’s security and decentralization hinge on affordable full validation.

Spam exploiting witness and OP_RETURN fields inflates the UTXO set and burdens nodes with non-monetary data that persists indefinitely.

This degrades RAM efficiency, slows IBD, and undermines mempool dynamics.

Relay policy isn’t censorship but it’s protocol hygiene.

Refusing to filter junk is not neutrality but it’s passive permission for long-term harm.