I would agree, in general. I don't want spam either but I fear it's inevitable. I whole heartedly disagree with picking and choosing txs, as far as I'm concerned that is not what should dictate anything in life. In any case, if you pay enough and go direct to a miner, you'll get it through. Ossification, perhaps? Humility, definitely. Decentralising the fundamental essence of Bitcoin, the protocol would be impossible, Shirley. It would lead to a one armed waiter situation, only forks
Agreed. What has been positive is to learn more about the attacks and attackers of Bitcoin and how they are working.
It may be Bitcoin Core Devs actually trying to reduce UTXO bloat, simplify the code etc by helping Spammers, but they didn't bring the noderunners with them for some reason. And is this the right way to be communicating with adversaries.
