MK - much appreciate your contributions/takes/work. I've learned much🙏🙏

IMHO your thesis around spam/pool centralization has one issue though, from your video:

*"Because who really wants MARA spamchaintokens?"*

Exactly. Eventually no one does.

Is spam (nonfinancial) or even bitcoin adjac (tokens) valuable over long timeframes? Will it compete over years (decades) with financial-only bitcoin transaction finality? I doubt it. Humans will eventually choose food and shelter over monkey jpegs.

I agree that filters *work*. By *work* they increase the cost (time/money) to transact around them. However, the fee market is actually the ultimate neutral uncorruptable filter. It is also relentless: they (VC, spam bros, alt token bros) have to pay, then pay, the pay again forever. If their *use* doesnt provide lasting value to humans, then it will be priced out. If it actually does, meaning it outcompetes bitcoin's hurdle rate, then we are collectively better off - perhaps open-time-stamps has a shot at this.

You hate spam, I hate spam, eventually even the spam enjoyers will bend the knee as they run out of resources to keep up with the cost of transaction finality onchain - and will decide, that they hate spam too.

Relay policy/nonstandardness efforts are not longterm as neutral and not truly uncorruptible as fees. Perhaps Core has arrived at a rough concensus that this is true and is *asking* the community to take on the filtering? You and others are responding and it is looking much better. Strong work.

The fee market has our collective backs - forever.