Damn, you educated me man 🏳️🌈. Any other gems of wisdom?
The point is that if you want to store data you were always able to. You can create a merkle tree with a spending condition that's actually an image and do that. It's cheaper than OP_RETURN, and impossible to block.
E.g.: https://github.com/stutxo/labitbu
Run core.
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I actually hate ordinals and all the other shit that treats individual UTXOs (or worse, individual sats) as anything other than what they are... But I also acknowledge the reality of the situation
