Andrew Poelstra on ordinals :
"Unfortunately, as near as I can tell there is no sensible way to prevent
people from storing arbitrary data in witnesses without incentivizing
even worse behavior and/or breaking legitimate use cases."
https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/bitcoin-dev/2023-January/021372.html
RT
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Yeah I'm not a fan of this but the cat's out of the bag. Knee jerk reactions like advocating censorship or "patches" are just as likely to bring up even more unintended consequences.
It'll all be ok. I have a feeling this will be a flash in the pan. Best thing to do is to reflect on how we go about accepting changes to bitcoin from here on out.
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