What idiot thought bright purple LED street lamps were a good idea?

I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.

But the idea that they're going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can't?

In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That's kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.

NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they're non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It's just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.

And if Bitcoin transactions can't outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it's just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That's peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it's no longer a niche thing?

i'm curious.. can you send one tx with 1000 bytes op return and see if either your node filters it or if it gets successfully broadcasted to the network? then share the tx afterwards..?

Fork me if you can, the message is loud and clear. And then they smear a fork.

Bitcoin is a tool made to help humans.

If you can’t see that abusing a protocol is not good and we should not support it or any measure designed to take power away from nodes and force them to relay spam despite there not being a compelling incentive to do so then there’s nothing to discuss here

No one was trying to remove the users ability to configure their node to filter out txns with an OP_RETURN exceeding a certain size?

No one is trying to remove filters from the default of Core?

No one is campaigning against filters saying they don’t work and trying to expand the amount of data that can be stored in OP_RETURN so spammers can save money and can more easily put their spam on the chain?

Ok bro, go gaslight someone else

The debate is I don’t want to be forces to relay or store spam on my mempool.

You will not gaslight me or anyone else into making life easier for you and your spammer friends

That much is clear and it’s short sided

Complicit in the same you’re complicit about your tax dollars helping kill kids in Gaza.

That’s not how it works or what the debate is about, but nice try lol

That doesn’t make me complicit, but with the moral framework you live under I see why you can’t understand that

I’m missing the point of Bitcoin? 🤣

It couldn’t be you who supports people wanting to put jpegs on the chain and having all nodes relay and store those jpegs in their mempool without an incentive that is missing the point of P2P cash. Can’t make this stuff up

😂

Have fun doing mental gymnastics to rationalize why nodes should relay and store spam in their mempool

Here is another one (can't spend with both, it'd be a double spend):

TXID: 78996a0c15aa1b01574b99b0899829211d4ea3fad7c29cac0572eef7f1a6018d

02000000000101e58689052bfbff3af1cd60c65d82e0d17b0a60c235817ba50e1a71b4111940410400000000fdffffff0100170000000000002251208f200657b2853dfc759fb2aab5d6cda2e0227ce83041aa37d36b3345ace800ca0140fecfa6b2fb5d91c99d52cc122655bd0cdbc4426bf772098a12a7babbbb6691307cb7ab686fa0c999911ba53f629abd36db0770c80ebae5c7e2a58668544de2e900000000

Whoops, forgot to sign it. Here is the full txhex, also used the wrong vout for the utxo:

TXID: eaece0c1768247d3b8718ed0cab59752d149884d859aef9998d5bbf7648258b2

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

The linking of a TX is a TX Hex, you can load it into your node, sparrow wallet, and other bitcoin software.

Correct miners would not include a 0 fee TX short of exogenous incentives. Your opinion on how the network topology works for nodes is a non sequitor.

Here, this is a txhex I just spun up on my node:

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

TXID: d3002dbfb6317ebc98107a305e3855969c8049da2384e3e4d8b9d3bb8c7ba9be

Use either sparrow wallet to load it yourself, OR your own bitcoin node using decoderawtransaction.

I mean; I did say call me crazy from the start and I’m not ignoring the point: the point still stands.

Miners would not include a 0 fee transaction unless there are other incentives. Just like some nodes would opt not to relay a transaction with arbitrary data less there is policy alignment.

Therefore I cannot “link” a transaction that has been filtered because it cannot be verified on chain (which would disprove its filtered nature) and I cannot “link” a transaction that has been opted not to be relayed around the network because it would be unable to query it.

A filtered or non-relayed transaction cannot be linked, verified, or queried because it exists outside the bounds of both blockchain inclusion and mempool propagation.

But maybe I’m just crazy. I’m still learning.