OK. Why will long-term sustainability become more difficult. Also, what's the main benefit of increasing the limit?

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Increasing the limit makes the network better at storing data, which will make people use it more for storing data, but we're already trying to store this data forever without knowing how we're supposed to make an infinite hard drive before we run out of hard drives, so the less data we store on the network, the more time we have to figure out how to make an infinite hard drive

If we're already gonna figure out the infinite hard drive thing more than fast enough, then we can get more benefit from Bitcoin as a storage server and still get the infinite hard drive in time

What is the data we expect to be stored? Is this mostly NFTs and new tokens?

I guess if necessity is the mother of invention, pushing up the timeline (for the need of infinite storage) may spur innovation... maybe?

There's no limit to what it can be used for, someone would install doom on the blockchain if they haven't already

Let me ask that differently: When people talk about 'spam', what are they generally referring to? Advertisements loke company emails, ordinals, all of the above?

To the most absolutist, any op_return is spam

To others, any messages unrelated to the transaction are spam

To others, "spam" just means nefarious actors intentionally using their funds to clog the network with whatever pointless shit they can come up with (sometimes meanwhile pretending there's a point)

Ty. So... these nefarious actors... would they more likely continue using their current mode of operation, or is it likely they would use the op_return after this change is made?

Probably both but it's mainly just that making the network better for their use case would probably encourage them overall

But it costs more to use op_return, right?

Not sure but it's definitely easier for users