That won't happen, because spam has no value
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But it has happened and still does. we saw crazy crap hitting the mempools already.
It never lasts very long though. People get tired of burning money eventually
This is true. I’m still confused by the whole thing and trying to figure it out. I was asking chatGPT to tell me the positive and negatives to both sides yesterday lol
Same here, it's way above my pay grade
The point is that NO CONSENSUS has been reached in favor of the change. Which means it should not be forced in the github. Only when changes are already adopted by the network (like RBF was) after that they should change the default settings. This forcing and "we know better" attitude is a serious departure and I don't think we are making this a big enough deal.
I would agree.
You aren’t thinking from an attacker point of view. If money isn’t a problem and their goal is to throttle the network throughput they would make it expensive and difficult to transact.
They can already do that by sending legitimate transactions back and forth between wallets
Right but they need to construct thousands of tx per block instead of dozens
I don't see that that makes a difference, they're paying per byte right?
Would you rather have to construct billions of transactions or tens of thousands if your goal was to slow things down?
Spammers don't care, their whole deal is sybil attack.
To be clear, I have no idea which side of this whole debate I land on. I strongly resonate with nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnyv9kh2uewd9hj7qg7waehxw309ahx7um5wgkhqatz9emk2mrvdaexgetj9ehx2ap0qy88wumn8ghj7mn0wvhxcmmv9uq3zamnwvaz7tmwdaehgu3wwa5kuef0qqs8fl79rnpsz5x00xmvkvtd8g2u7ve2k2dr3lkfadyy4v24r4k3s4sngrqr5's argument that bitcoin is money and should be treated as such. But I also see the point that accurate mempools help with fee estimation, and we can't stop spam in any way other than by forcing spammers to pay for block space. Getting rid of the segwit discount seems like a clearer win to me, but the cost of putting things in OP_RETURN is much fairer and has obvious uses.
You will never achieve "accurate" mempools. think about it. everyone has different settings, only 5% of nodes today run the latest software.
Core always followed consensus. Now they are forcing it. This is a war.