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0 sats \ 1 reply \ @clr 19 Dec 2023 \ parent \ on: Taproot Didn't Cause Ordinals | sethforprivacy.com bitcoin
Please, don't give up. Many great people have rage quit already; how is it going for them? Yes, bitcoin has its limitations and its problems, it's not perfect, it's not a magic wand that is going to solve our problems on its own, but we don't have any other alternative, so in my view it is worth staying.
If anything needs to be done, it has to be done at the cultural level, outside the protocol itself. The protocol already has the fees and the block size limit as its defenses against spam. If you are afraid that bitcoin is going to fail, work through your fear and feel it.
I agree it needs to be done at the cultural level -- I think these symptoms of decay is entirely cultural.
The old bitcoiners are scoffing -- yeah, we always knew you could write data, yawn -- meanwhile, the narrative switches from 'oh look i can encode data' to 'i will force you to accept this spam data at any cost, to my own failure, just to fuck your project up'.
The low quality of everything in the inscription and ordinal space is blight. Ignorance is the primary attribute.
We find ourselves debating old debates, on technical countermeasures and changes. Sensible folks find themselves being drawn into discussions of censorship, etc. There are no easy answers. It cannot be solved when indistinguishably is the game. Indistinguishably is the countermeasure to censorship.
Censorship resistance is pointless when nobody can hear you over the noise
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You can never win against an enemy scorching the earth beneath you.
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