Here is my normie friendly analogy of the Core V Knots. Situation. Let me know how off I am.
Miners are ultimately incentivized to mine the most expensive transactions. Beyond that, whether they follow laws or moral principles is secondary (and I doubt morals play a big role here).
Storing data in OP_RETURN is costly. If someone pays to put data there → it will be mined.
Here’s how I understand the current debate: imagine email. Right now, people are stuffing messages into the To:, Cc:, and Bcc: fields, because the email body is too small in Bitcoin.
Core’s proposal is like saying: “Let’s expand the body of the email — the most expensive part, but also the part that can be pruned later — from 80 bytes to 100K. That way, if you really want to share a message, put it in the proper body instead of hiding it in the addressing fields.”
But the key is: if you want to use that field, you have to pay the real cost.
That’s the best analogy I can come up with. Does this explain the situation clearly, or am I missing something?
