I don't mind admitting this is above my knowledge, so I'm interested in other's opinions. For me I am not keen on changes but neither am I a fan of filtering (censorship). The consensus was to bring in taproot, before, for L2 etc... From that we opened the door for ordinals.
I like privacy and freedom. My biggest concern is, if we go down a filtering root, you open the door to greater censorship and elitistm. Isn't #Bitcoin for anyone?
It's actually simple but it's framed as complicated by the people pushing this.
"Trust the experts"
Is Bitcoin's only use case as money?
Should node runners have the option to configure their me pool?
Should code changes to the default client require discussion and consensus?
Should we be concerned about conflicts of interest of devs pushing changes?
I'd say common sense would be to answer "yes" to all the above. Who we have now as "Bitcoin Core" largely and surprisingly don't agree.
There are conflicts of interest here. What is Bitcoin? Is it just money? Is it hope? Is it freedom? Some say all of these things. My biggest concern is that by filtering you are excluding. Exclusion makes you eletist. I believe you should be allowed to do whatever youwantt as long as you don't harm others. My other concern is placing trust in one man. One ring to rule them...
Then there is the workarounds. No one foresaw the ordinals (well not that I know of). They came in by finding a path. We always find a path if we want to get somewhere bad enough.
Have you disabled your email spam folder because it's exclusionary?
Excluding spam is completely expected and reasonable.
When spammers/shitcoiners forcie all nodes to store and propagate arbitrary data that is harmful. Same for driving up tx fees. Both are harmful.
Yes Ordinals exist because devs exploited a bug. So the bug should be fixed imo.
Bitcoin is a monetary network, not a platform for free file storage via unfixed exploit
Whom defines what is spam and what isn't. Is a text file spam? If so the Genesis block is full of spam. If it isn't, as it is just data, how much data before it's spam? Nothing is as black and white as you infer.
