For everyone getting emotional about data carrier size limits in Core 30: calm down…your concerns aren’t helped by emotions and there is still a needed debate to be had over illegal number storage and whether or not changing default configuration option for carrier size is of any effect or not on the social/legal layer of bitcoin (technical side is well figured out and is much more straightforward).

IMHO, questions to be debated center around CSAM or other illegal numbers: is this fear porn fud or a genuine concern? Even if just fud, isn’t that enough to invite law enforcement to investigate/confiscate/arrest, etc?

Even if we all knew that in the end bitcoin hash chain extenders need to be getting all transactions via decentralized censorship resistant network and need to be economically incentivized by transaction fees and the value thereof, that doesn’t necessarily mean inviting more police scrutiny now by blowing open op return is a wise decision…just because something will someday be necessary is not a valid argument for why it must be done _right now_

What am I missing?