It’s does kind of offend me, yes. In the same way society is offended by vandalism and destruction of the commons. It’s this willful attitude — can’t stop us. Good luck. Fuck you for wanting something good like an immutable ledger of money — I want to piss over it. Enjoy my art.

I would rather we protected the commons from grifters and vandals.

I agree with both points you make for a and b on principal - if this was what was happening in reality. It isn’t! Art and history can be engraved into immutable data structures — it’s just we discovered a long time ago it’s really brain dead stupid to do it on the Bitcoin blockchain, in fact, any Nakamoto chain is hopelessly bad at data storage efficiently.

Nobody remembers “Datacoin”. Larimer even did that steem PoS blockchain for eternal document storage and then Sun took over. It forked to Hive. Blah. Blah shitcoin data storage blah. There are much better ways to achieve eternal storage objectives than encoding out of protocol junk in the Bitcoin ledger.

You act like “now we can store data forever” it’s a new thing. There is rarely anything “new” in this space that isn’t a warmed up grift from previous cycles. Storing arbitrary data in the Bitcoin blockchain is highly discouraged and offers no guarantees of future retrieveability. Beyond simple pruning, it may be possible to discard full block data, such as dropping spent or mostly spent blocks or using tx inclusion proofs as substitutes. Beyond this, it degrades performance in the short term, and leads to large loss of capital for those involved in the long term.

Go bring capital into this space. We always need good in-protocol devs too, and should discourage people making out-of-protocol spam generating code in Bitcoin.