Why do bitcoiners who never plan to spend their bitcoin anyway care so much about how others use block space?
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TLDR; people don't want Bitcoin to break or fundamentally change.
That's the steelman.
Dumb
Because it chaffs my ass when consolidating UTXOs on a random Tuesday when there’s high fees and I don’t feel like waiting for Thursday.
Because for some, Bitcoin isn’t just money...it’s a belief system.
They see block space as sacred, and anything outside their vision (art, tokens, experiments) feels like heresy. But here’s the twist: if Bitcoin’s truly neutral, then the market decides.
Use it how you want. Pay the fee. That is Bitcoin.
It's not neutral. It's pointedly a monetary protocol.
Read again,...
If Bitcoin’s truly neutral, then the market decides.
Use it how you want. Pay the fee. That is Bitcoin.
I heard you the first time
"The market decides" is not relevant in this discussion. The decision to increase block sizes was not a market decision - it was renegade devs' decision. The same is happening here.
If you insist on framing it as a market decision, then the market has definitely chosen AGAINST arbitrary data (spam) on blockchains, since that was the selling point of all the various shitcoins - but they went to zero, and bitcoin went up. The market chose money being money, not spam.
Use it how you want to is like saying spam welcomed here. Nowhere do we tolerate this but for some reason it’s ok on the bitcoin blockchain 🤦♂️
It’s definitely a whole religion for some 😅 My point is simply that if Bitcoin is money (which is the side of the fence I’m on), then the “never spend your Bitcoin” people are simply hurting their own cause.
If bitcoin is digital real estate, ordinals are graffiti.
I can only speak for myself. I spend a little while saving most. I don't see a reason to make the change. Changes to Bitcoin are supposed to be hard and with solid reasoning. The current controversial change seems needless.
The HD space for current Blockchain is almost 800Gb. Increasing space occupation could lead to a not viable node due to the massive amount of data(a.k.a. monkey jpegs). It is more about preserving the function of the network than anything else.
Because I run a node and I want it to be relaying bitcoin transactions to other nodes.
Why do those who never use their credit card care whether their data is pimped?
Apples/oranges, yes. But it’s about creeping incentives.