If Bitcoin is useful, this happens anyway. If it only survives by putting dick pics on it, then Bitcoin should fail.
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What about putting wiki leaks on the blocks? Is that not a waste of space as well?
Yes that is a retarded waste. We have torrents and nostr. Bitcoin is money, not storage for your blog
Until it's uneconomical to do so people will keep putting extra things in blocks. I'm really indifferent about the topic and I think it's goofy to get concerned about. What if I wanted to just send thousands of transactions until I ran out of btc? Spam the chain for no reason. Am I not only hurting myself?
Many Bitcoiner’s become deranged because they have miss set expectations for Bitcoin. When Bitcoin’s reality moves away from their vision they become deranged as they try to cope. Sad but this is what I am trying to call out.
The ordinals people are essentially betting that whatever sats they spend inscribing they will get back and more when people want to buy their monkey Jpgs.
I don't think seeing bitcoin as money is deranged. And I don't think the devs or the community intended for pictures to be uploaded directly into blocks.
Using Bitcoin to buy NFTs is very different than putting NFTs directly on chain.
If anything it's sad after 14 years we don't know if we're money or cloud storage!
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Throwing this out, would it be possible to charge based on an exponential curve for bytes used? Encourage miners to charge on a exponential curve, making very large things like inscriptions prohibitively expensive while keeping small transactions cheap.
Miners don't charge, fees are added to transactions from the sender. Sender attached a big fee; transaction goes through faster. Think of the Mempool as a big queue where people are bidding (attaching transaction fees) to get to the front.
Fees prevent spam at scale. If it’s valid and economically possible we should assume people will do it.