I see a lot of debates lately regarding the Ocean mining pool and its transaction "filter" that rejects "spam" from ordinals. For Luke, those ordinals are a bug that should be corrected, and for the other side rejecting transactions is considered as an attack on bitcoin, and they're both throwing stones at each other for doing it.
There is no point on judging what other people do and having an opinion about it, you either can submit them to your will or you can't, but your opinion is just wind in the air. The problem with ordinals is that the protocol allows it and in a way, the wizards were right on exploiting it, if bitcoin is actually the anti fragile system that it's promised to be, they are just doing the network a service. If a bitcoin can be crashed by some guys putting idiotic jpeg's on the blockchain, then it's better to crush it for good now instead of waiting for more people to get hurt later. But if you think that, something should be done, then you go the Ocean way and take the matter into hands instead of complaining.
What I mean is that, bitcoin has shown that it doesn't matter what you wish or think is right, what matters is if you're able to achieve it and have the power for it, and in this regard, both the ordinals and the Ocean filter are doing what they can and it's ok.
This reminds me of that video from Hoskinson complaining about the SEC going after them for considering ADA a security and saying how unfair it is that BTC is not in the same bag. The SEC does that because they can, and they would do it with BTC if they could, but it's not possible right now. You either can withstand attacks to your system or you can't, but you don't complain like a baby about it, just STFU and get strong or get lost.
For sure, opinions are cheap they cost nothing, ordinal bros are putting their money into something they feel is valuable and Luke and those that support filtering ordinals are putting their money into what they believe and losing out on fees/opportunity cost for their beliefs
Put skin in the game and see who wins, those running their mouths without skin in the game is just hot air
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