The utxoset size is *permanent* it can’t be pruned like other block data unless you consolidate the spend into a smaller set of utxos basically think of them as a coin purse where if you put two coins in, the only way to shrink the bag is to spend to coins with no change. JPEGs in witness data means that they will likely be unspendable, meaning that there is a permanent storage increase requirement on all nodes. But they are no provably unspendable so you can’t discard them from the coin purse. This is really bad. OP_RETURNs are *provably* unspendable, meaning they can be ignored from the utxoset perspective (never goes in the coin purse) By trying to stop both witness jpegs and large OP_RETURN pushes, it will push people to do even worse things like large multisigs that stores data in the signatures. This is how the whitepaper is permanently stored in the utxoset. This is even worse for utxo bloat. At this point the censor proponents would say well thats not economically viable… but none of these methods really is. Some are cheaper than others, sure, but overall it’s still the most expensive data storage out there. People have to burn the hardest money on the planet if they want to play stupid games. The point is people are going to store data anyway, the *least bad* is OP_RETURN, because it minimizes the *permanent* storage burden on pruned nodes.

Which way, Western man? Lolbertarians would prefer to allow degens to poop in the park bc "muh cOnsTiTooshun" and "muh hUmAn rights". We live in a society (for now)

It's not economically viable in a one dimensional profit narrative. But these keynesians always fail to recognize dynamic system complexity, human action, irrational actors, bad faith actors. It only takes one buyer to make a sale.

I understand that OP_RETURN is a garbage dump, but the question is whether to remove the "limitation" of OP_RETURN, and are you saying that we should give up on full nodes like Ethereum and use pruned nodes instead? Surely, I also think that if the network can be resilient from a pruned node that is left *only one* in the world, that would be one direction of "evolution". And that might be already possible if we gave up on past history and continued only with future payments.

This is wrong. Witness data is not stored in the UTXO set. Witness data is revealed when spending a UTXO, removing it from the UTXO set. Witness data is only in blocks and can be pruned.

I wish Rodarmor was active on nostr instead of being a little bitch about it, but the way I understand it is the witness data doesn't actually add to the utxo set and you'd likely consolidate your ordinals just like your regular bitcoin, but BRC-20s broke this by exploding the utxoset. This was why runes were made and use OP_RETURN. A larger OP_RETURN would be good for more use cases like this, but jpegs would likely still be in the witness data because of the discount.