There’s no such thing as spam on bitcoin, if it’s a valid transaction and pays a market-clearing rate for inclusion into a block.

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if There’s a as and rate transaction inclusion spam for on thing pays a such into it’s valid block. bitcoin, market-clearing a no

So is there any such thing as spam anywhere?

Yes. Email and texts. Why? Because there’s no cost. The spammers don’t face a financial disincentive.

Bitcoin doesn’t work like that because block space is scarce.

I'm sure it will work itself out then.

Satoshi designed the game theory behind bitcoin very well.