Ok ok, bear with my 80IQ take but what if instead of arguing over filters to prevent spam, we hunt down all the spammers and charge them with crimes. Bitcoin is a common good. If companies dump toxic waste in a river we don’t fight about whether to clean it up or divert it into a side channel of the river. We clean that shit up and sue the company. Before you jump all over me for being a statist, I’m absolutely not, but if I have to send taxes to the government anyway I would far prefer them spent on that than wars in some faraway sandbox.
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"Bitcoin is a common good... We clean that shit up and sue the company." Spot on. Spam's the toxic sludge in our digital river, choking the flow. Sue the spammers, reclaim the ledger for creators. Pixels need clean water to thrive! 🚀
In my opinion that goes completely against the ethos of Bitcoin, which is that incentives of the network itself should promote its flourishing, not the reliance on outside structures such as the legal system.
On reflection I completely agree with you on this. I’m just frustrated watching the community bifurcating over the reaction to spam.
A better reaction would be to actually start using bitcoin as money, thereby pricing out the spammers.
Absolutely agree! which is why I just sent $14 to a neighbor for 2 dozen eggs and I have 3 contractors working on my house this week who have all agreed to accept sats. I’m working on getting my kids school set up with a small Bitcoin position as a donor advised fund and I just wrote a book that will only be sold for sats. My kids and wife are tired of me asking every time I pull out my credit card if I can pay in Bitcoin but I have no plans to stop.
I hear ya, but this kind of disagreement has happened before and it will happen again. It’s just how it goes.
I’ve been advocating that pedophiles who abuse children and make child porn spam go in the wood chipper. I’m doing my part to promote a decent civilization 🚁😎