Adam back wants to shift utxo bloat control (aka anti spam aka censorship) to users / wallets, who would subsidize miners who block spam.

Blocking spam sounds like a good thing. But can we really tell what is spam? Won't the jpegs just keep getting sneakier and sneakier. and it becomes a spy vs spy red queens race and opens a censorship attack vector to boot?

I agree utxo bloat is a problem but idk if this is a solution.

If wallet subsidies push data into prunable op_returns, maybe that's a good thing.

But a) will users pay the extra fee, even if it's tiny? b) will wallet maintainers be able to resist state address and mpubkey whitelists when this is inevitably attempted?

maybe accepting centralization risk of utxo bloat is better than centralization risk of opening wallet filters as a state attack vector.