Bitcoin is a neutral and open protocol for anyone to do whatever they want. It may not be what some may want but it needs to be able to work for anything that the protocol allows otherwise it’ll fail
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That is exactly true, I know that. But we don't have to accept everything that it is used for as being 'good' for Bitcoin, do we?
No. Absolutely not. Ordinals are a prime example.
When Saylor announced his product, one of my first thoughts was to consider the possiblity of nodes filtering out his DID peg transactions.... 👀
Not suggesting I would do it, without more detail, but I think it's closer to how node runners should be thinking about these sorts of things...
If it doesn't align with your values, don't tolerate it on your node.
This brings into question the issue mining centralisation, and the role of nodes as a sort of immune system that will reject improper usecases and forks and so on.
No, we don’t need to think it’s good for bitcoin. We need to get a point where we don’t care