"If you do that the spammers will just...."
I know. That's the point. 
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it would be amazing to one day be able to once again run a node on a thumbdrive device the size of a dime. and if thereās no stopping spam, the real question to me is, will technology progression outpace blockchain bloat?
Eventually they will run out of methods and/or fee money.
Yep. It should be an arm and a leg to do wizardy things with magic internet money.
Except spammers already won. Thats the missing piece here. And now that spammers have won, its about limiting the damage they do by making it easier from an intellectual perspective (because with filters set up the way they are, spammers take a more intellectually difficult but cheaper and more damaging approach to data storage).
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Yes, make it hard. Otherwise, you are taking the "might as well leave my house unlocked since thieves are going to get in somehow" mentality.
Why not use this opportunity to talk about the real underlying issue: unlimited witness data?
This is where the deeper technical problem lies, and itās also where you could actually win something meaningful for the people youāre trying to help. Your ideological arguments would carry more weight if they showed a broader understanding of all the vectors for arbitrary dataā¦ not just inscriptions, but witness, script paths, bare multisig abuse, etc. That knowledge could help you build bridges instead of burning them.
Knots, under Luke, sets witness data limits at 400KB. Thatās smart. It leaves breathing room for Lightning and innovative payment use cases. But even that lower limitāand the other pathways for dataāstill allow market-driven use of Bitcoin as what it fundamentally is: a decentralized thermodynamic clock. You may not like that, but you canāt stop it. Neither can Core. Thatās the entire premise of permissionless systems.
I want the same things you say you want: a robust monetary layer, wide node accessibility, sustainable fee markets. But I also accept two realities:
1 - Currency is only one way humans exchange value.
2 - If Bitcoin doesnāt provide some outlet for arbitrary data, the market will take the protocol in directions none of us like.
And thatās the part I havenāt heard you engage with. Maybe you have, and I missed it. But you have a powerful voice, and I genuinely think you could do more with it. Thereās an opening here to go back to the rootāto help fix the original bug that Luke himself helped introduce: unlimited witness data. You could be the person who brings that conversation mainstream.
Stirring up a frenzy around ideology is easy. Fixing fundamentals takes more work and thatās where your leadership might actually make a difference.
This is disingenuous he mentioned this as the real underlying problem on many occasions.
Sorry, didnāt hear it which is why I said I may have missed it. Iāve seen zero willingness to negotiate positions on OP_RETURN either. If thereās something I should watch or listen to please point me to it Iām all ears.
Honesty:
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What is the solution for blocking the "spam" then? How do you suppose to prevent it?
