This is the thing I can’t get passed and why I personally lean toward core. Everyone has this idea of what they think bitcoin should be, it’s literally designed in a way to combat this. In doing filtering (if it even works) you basically censor the chain and invite all sorts of legal issues. Monetary use is whatever the market says. Eventually the incentives wipe out the use of the spam. As fees rise why would any idiot waste their time putting this nonsense on the chain.

I think of lot of cores thoughts are getting lost in translation because people just label them as pro spam, it’s way deeper than that. I don’t think anyone in core nor nostr:npub1wqlzdd8chs862luemq2ahd6mppsp9txzflz400h6xy844gydrzvq08rnrp is pro spam. Before all this half the bitcoin world believed Back was Satoshi.

It almost feels like it’s as simple as either bitcoin is censorship resistant money or it isn’t.

https://x.com/breedlove22/status/1982529896095322579?s=46&t=SNs3cwvowySK5TqLOVkIhQ

All of that said, I still know so little about this myself and always willing to change my mind with more information and continue to listen to both sides with no anger or vitriol toward anyone. I