Governments are not Bitcoin’s greatest threat. Anything that encourages centralization is, which governments can certainly play a part in. Spamming the blockchain with ordinals could have secondary effects that hurt decentralization.
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So folks are upset because they want to choose what’s allowed on the blockchain?
People have always chosen what’s allowed on the blockchain. Bitcoin is simply a network of censorship by consensus, and within the confines of that consensus anything that is possible is “allowed.” But forces and activities that create centralizing forces on the network are potential threats and should be considered carefully and perhaps even opposed. Decentralization is everything, or bitcoin is lost.
So you folks don’t want others to post artwork because you believe that it stifles decentralization? So you are pro censorship by consensus. Good to know. Please correct me if I have any of that wrong.
Where could I hear an honest argument in support of ordinals? Bitcoin magazine?
I’ll just look into it more. 😂
I’d like to hear all perspectives.
That’s fair, and wise, and anyone should do the same. Honestly I wasn’t sure if you were just trying to ruffle my feathers by jumping to such hard fast m conclusions on what I’m saying 😂 Anyway, “you folks” is a hard thing to define. I am simply one user on a decentralized monetary network that operates on the basis of adherence to the shared rules of consensus define by the network’s protocol. Proof of work miners build on the chain following those rules, and my node accepts the longest chain that follows the rules, excluding/censoring many things in the process, such as blocks that are too big or transactions with invalid parameters, etc. If you run a bitcoin node, yours does too. The argument is not related to artwork specifically, but to maintaining and even increasing decentralization because otherwise bitcoin is captured. Bitcoin is not a file storage system. Bitcoin is money, and as money that exists outside the control of central authorities it is far too important to support anything that leads to it centralizing. As for an honest argument in support of ordinals, I don’t know where exactly to point you. The debates have been ongoing for several months. There are many articles and podcasts on it. Bitcoin Magazine is clearly in favor, so you will probably find plenty of material from them swayed that way. It would perhaps help to have a solid understanding of what ordinals even are in the first place. Honestly, that’s where I would suggest you begin.
I’m not from here so I speak a different language.😂 I’m a tourist at all times. I don’t even know how to ask what I want to ask tbh.
I hope that whatever is going on gets ironed out.
Lol 😂 At the end of the day bitcoiners are all (mostly) just average everyday people who come from all walks of life, and happen to share an appreciation of, and recognize a need for, money that isn’t controlled by any central authority.
Hard to not consider there is state sponsorship behind this type of sustained attack 