Doesn't mean they aren't reprobates.
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does that include Satoshi and the coinbase transaction of the genesis block ?
LOL. Satoshi was not a speculating reprobate trying to cargo-cult his way to beanie baby mania.
Blockspace is valuable, that is for sure.
But in time, most (if not all), the jpegs stuffed therein will not be valuable. But we still have to store them, if we want sufficient distribution of archival nodes.
What is valuable is a very subjective thing. I think op_return is a good thing and i think good husbandry of the commons that is the utxo set and the blockchain a thing to be encouraged. I suspect you are correct and a lot of the perceived value of onchain jpegs will evaporate. But do we risk making things worse with a sort fork introducing new potential or do we simply let the market decide?
Letting the market decide is not always the most efficient way to eliminate grift and fraud. In fact, if the market becomes dominated by grift and fraud, it creates a lemon market, where it is impossible to distinguish legitimate product from a lemon.
This is why I consider inscriptions to be an exploit. It allows all the degenerate activity that made ethereum a magnet for a rogues gallery of frauds.
people are now embedding encoded data into counterparty token descriptions, it's not just ordinals being used to put data in the chain
78,000 satoshi in spendable outputs that will probavly never be spent .. no segwit required
https://blockstream.info/tx/8266f92c5971f3ac745fa42a58ed39f39a7cd5e4f700801642766f214362e657
It sounds like its an educational issue as and correct me if I am wrong, there is no technical solution