This idea of forking off humam stupidity is never gonna work.

A soft fork could block them in their current form, but it would be very difficult to design a fork that could completely eliminate arbitrary data forever.

Creative individuals (and degens) with open source code will do laps against people trying to build network consensus.

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I think we could do a lot more to protect our precious #block space and #bandwidth. And that's what we must do.

#Satoshi #Nakamoto is the only person with the right to put whatever he wants into the blockchain.

#Nodes and miners serve at the pleasure of Bitcoin. Virtuous full nodes have a right to serve, and protect their interest.

Mining participation is a privilege with responsibilities, not a right. #Miners are responsible for filtering out crap from getting in the #blockchain.

We must make this clear, and hold bad actors responsible. We must enhance and strengthen enforcement of the #Bitcoin protocol. For the protection and benefit of all..🤔

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I don't think anyone advocating for fixing filters expects to block all spam. Spam/arbitrary data will always be a part of Bitcoin and why OP_Return exists. Handling inscriptions (yet another method of storing arbitrary data in Bitcoin, certainly won't be the last) by subjecting to the same OP_Return filters is fair.

Filters are only meant to discourage spammy behavior, it doesn't stop spam. A network with participants running filters forces "spammers" to collude with miners to take on all the risk of constructing blocks at risk of being orphaned (since nodes won't validate txs which don't propagate beforehand). Nodes with filters will validate spam blocks just fine, just marginally slower than blocks w/ tx already all validated beforehand (propagated properly)

Filters don't cause forks, miners which want to take the risk to mine blocks containing txs that don't properly propagate across the network do

Hashers, that is, people running “miner” appliances who choose to point them to pools that don’t use spam filters are contributing to letting through spam that 99.9 % of people don’t want and that could easily be throttled down if more of us pointed the said ASICs to pools that do apply spam filters.

At the moment the only pool I know of that applies spam filters is nostr:npub1qtvl2em0llpnnllffhat8zltugwwz97x79gfmxfz4qk52n6zpk3qq87dze so I pointed to it.

The more people do the more there will be pressure on other pools to use spam filters and thereby help to limit ( if not eliminate) spam.

I don’t understand why the theoretical point keeps being made that it is not possible to eliminate all spam. The same could be said about email spam and yet no one argues that filtering out email spam is pointless.

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