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I can't possibly understand how otherwise smart people can seriously believe that they can censor transactions they don't like (BRC-20/Inscriptions).

Wanna play cat & mouse? It takes 20 mins to circumvent any "fix". Should we now all soft fork whenever you propose a new "fix"?

It's not even a moral question at this point. It's most likely anger that makes people come up with stupid or even dangerous ideas like this.

Stop pretending you can do anything about it. Proposing forks based on your feelings is dangerous because it increases centralization.
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graycat 2y ago

#Bitcoin was invented to be a digital currency. The Ordinals/BRC-20 enthusiasts are usurping the network for a different purpose. In the process of doing that, they’ve made its intended use more expensive and therefore less attractive in comparison to alternatives. If Pepe coin or JPEG collectors want to pay for their tokens with Bitcoin, fine. It would be censorship to stop them. That doesn’t mean we need to allow them to save their purchases on the Bitcoin blockchain.

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graycat 2y ago

Let me add that “It takes 20 mins to circumvent any ‘fix’” is plainly not true. Bitcoin existed for 13 years without Ordinals or BRC-20 tokens, which became possible only after Taproot’s features were added.