Facilitating the transit of a financial transaction used to do the worst kind of evil is more repulsive than facilitating the transit of any other blob of data. Bitcoin is money for enemies. The fee market is the only anti-spam mechanism that works.

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Yes, exactly. I don't think the fee market is super great (because it doesn't reward those that bear the biggest burden of carrying the data), but it's the only thing we have.