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I really like the following gmaxwell quote from 2015: "Since Bitcoin is an electronic cash, it isn’t a generic database; the demand for cheap highly-replicated perpetual storage is unbounded, and Bitcoin cannot and will not satisfy that demand for non-ecash (non-Bitcoin) usage, and there is no shame in that." https://gnusha.org/pi/bitcoindev/CAAS2fgQyVs1fAEj+vqp8E2=FRnqsgs7VUKqALNBHNxRMDsHdVg@mail.gmail.com/
Clearly this is a political issue, it's in the name "policy" itself. I don't think attempting to minimize harm is caving to shitcoins. I think they should be held accountable socially, but we also have to face the fact that them anchoring data in the chain is inevitable.
Funny that "PR" also refers to "public relations". Since it appears the technical team incompetently solicited feedback from people at my level, the only healthy response to be expected is NACK and the solution should be rewritten at a later date.
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Between you and me, I think that there were discussions on the mailing list and on the pull request, and other people solicited feedback from a wider audience.
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And when you received this reaction it should have been shelved. VCs won't stop using witness data for their scam chains, they can't risk being ignored. And spammers won't stop either, they want their "art" to be in blockchain forever, not pruned.
You say "we can't stop spam" well, you can't force them to use op_return, and you can't force me to run your updates.
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10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Murch 10 May
Right, we can’t force them, but we can make OP_RETURN data more attractive than writing to payment outputs.
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Isn't the fees that spammers pay... in the long term the great deterrent?
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