Jpegs are not possible in Bitcoin, only the data is in the time chain, not jpegs, you need 3rd party sites to show jpegs, im on the side of limiting data size and also using a hash instead of the full data is the efficient way for the spammers and node runners
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you are right, it just the data and you need to do steps to see a pic.
do i run into trouble with my lightning node? when i only store the hashes instead of the full data?
I will admit I am no expert but trying to fight spam is better then letting it be a free for all to me, I was talking about onchain, I never considered lightning for this
how can paying tens of millions of sats for data storage be spam? for a max 4MB "file"
the chain is spammed right now as we speak
but i get that you would like to prevent it.
the limit was there since 2013
and it solved basicly nothing!
so why hold back all the new and cool features
to become global money ?
they are increasing the non money use case and would ultimately force a raise in the block size and diminish the pool of users who can run nodes. it can't be global money if half the blocks are filled with spam.
the chain is spammed primarily because of segwit, and people could incentivize upgrading to taproot, which is both smaller and cost is not a lot greater. smart contracts should stay off chain, and have a benefit in that they can be done on private consortium networks to enable user privacy (this is not possible with public SC blockchain systems).
segwit is the bigger problem. OP_RETURN is going to then become more important if you nudge people onto taproot, so continuing to filter them is important.
the fees would go up
core was always against a block size increase
i dont know if that logic is true, that the next step would be an blocksize increase. we got that war before.
We don't need to features to be global money, the base layer is solid and layer 2s will handle payments, the filters did prevent a lot of arbitrary data, most didn't get through, shitcoiners spend millions of dollars on bullshit that trends to zero all the time and it doesn't legitimize it, just like how bots pay for twitter blue checks, people are strange
