🚨 Bitcoin blocks are silently accumulating embedded data — not all of it benign.

I built a model that scans OP_RETURNs for suspicious payloads like malware, phishing links, and binary blobs. It works — and that’s the scary part.

📌 Here's why it matters:

- Today, AV/EDR systems don’t scan `.bitcoin/blocks`

- Tomorrow, they will — and when they do, infected chains could get flagged

- Nodes on cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP) may face bans or throttling

- Centralized miners can bypass mempool policy, embedding malicious data

🧠 This is about more than spam. It's about Bitcoin's long-term health and legitimacy.

We need:

- Sensible datacarrier/mempool policies

- Transparency in block contents

- Decentralized, policy-respecting mining

Bitcoin is permissionless. Let’s not let it become indefensible.

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