Bitcoin was designed from Genesis with a spam prevention mechanism. Attempting to block transactions containing information you don't think constitutes a valid use case is an overstep, unnecessary and poses a far greater risk to Bitcoin than any "spam" someone is paying to put on chain.
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Quickest follow, unfollow of my Nostr experience. So long Coretard.
I must be a pedo since I prefer running libre relay right? Or maybe I just like money you can't fuck with.
Bitcoin has evolved a lot since the genesis block. If we went back to what Bitcoin was like back then, lots of good things like Lightning and (I think) multisig wouldn’t work. On the upside, malicious things like Libre Relay and Slipstream didn’t exist, nodes limited OP_RETURN to ~80 bytes and mining wasn’t centralized.
I know Bitcoin has changed a lot since then. But it's spam prevention mechanism, total supply, and many other things are the same as they were then.
(Albeit, total supply did have a bug at Genesis... That's not the point.)
Mining isn't centralized now either. And libre relay is not malicious just because it takes off core guardrails... And op return is a mempool policy and has nothing to do with the op return limit of my own transaction. I can sign and briadcast an op return bigger than that well before core 30.