Ordinals leverages today's #Bitcoin protocol rules. Folks who want to ban JPEGs are, unfortunately, going to need to hard fork to do it.
I don't like NFTs as much as the next guy, but I'm not dumping $BTC to try and stop them.
Let the blocks be full. Let fees go up. Let RBF proliferate and a formalized fee market emerge.
This problem *should* solve itself.
I agree with the anti-ordinals crowd that it's unintended behaviour (a bug), but I don't think it will kill Bitcoin.
Agree on letting it sort itself.
But no, you can easily soft fork em out by taking out the witness discount, or limiting witness size per tx, or enforcing a witness/nonwitness ratio requirement. No hard fork needed at all.
How would those options prevent ordinal?
Ordinals have nothing to do with what we're talking about.
Inscriptions are.
And this wouldn't prevent them, it would just make them a lot more cumbersome and expensive - eliminating the current issue of arbitrary witness data storage being more financially incentivised (by lower fees) than normal transactions (vb for vb).
