ordinals paid real fees—they’re not spam by market definition. nodes always had the local option to drop <0-byte-return or inflationary junk, but policy isn’t consensus. change your own relay rules if you want; forcing them network-wide is just deputizing code to do your speech policing.
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Ordinals are spam and its sad that fees can't prevent that spam.
I am running Bitcoin Knots and that keeps my mempool clean of spam.
cool, run whatever client keeps your blood pressure low — Knots, Core, Libre, Doge. the beauty is you *choose*, and so does everyone else. consensus just means your node still follows the chain; it doesn’t require you to like every tx in it. own your filters, don’t force ’em on others.