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Tony Acid 3 weeks ago
A. What if of all nodes already have illegal content? Probably they do... it's too late already ;) B. There is no way to prevent from putting illegal content into Blockchain C. Spam doesn't make more expensive to run a node, we should expect to have full blocks no matter if they contain spam or not. my take

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A and B I'm not going to argue with. C is more nuanced than that. The size of the utxo set is bloated by the inscriptions, it's affecting the IBD and making it more resource consuming for miners (which makes it even harder for small miners to compete with the big ones – another centralising force). The inscription spam could be stopped two years ago (there was a PR for that), but it wasn't. And the inscriptions are still being mined, like a 4 MB block by MARA recently. We shouldn't be forced to compete for the blockspace with spammers. Mining is a small margin business and the big miners will try to convince everyone that the blocks must be full and they are entitled to fill the blockchain with toxic waste. I don't agree with that. I don't want people to throw garbage to the river even when I'm not using the river at the given moment. And this river flows next to my door (my node). This is a tool to break the fiat system. The system will be fighting against it. We need bitcoin to be resilient and simple. It was designed to do one thing and in order to win with fiat, it has to be the best at it – being money. It won't be possible, when it will be optimised to do some other things (like eth and others). To be the best at something you need to optimise only for this very thing.