Central banking is a banking cartel. Do you remember the latest cartel that had as its goal to bring as many advantages as possible to its customers? I don't.

> Notice there are not a million new ways of spamming bitcoin, there are just a couple that can be easily filtered. This point is underappreciated by Core v30 proponents who seem to think that there are endless ways to embed arbitrary data in Bitcoin. Filtering the well-known methods will force spammers to come up with ever more complex ways to embed data in transactions, with the natural consequence that the least motivated among them will stop trying doing so. My opinion is that higher level layers that extend the monetary use cases of Bitcoin by using its chain as their data availability system should be able to do so with the current OP_RETURN limits, as shown by Alpen Labs and their Strata bridge -

Bitcoin bridge | Alpen

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