> all the filter does is create a cliff like drop off vs a gradual slop downward that would occur under purely economic pressures
This sounds like it is exactly the point I am trying to make. People who say the filters do nothing can't account for the cliff; if the filters did nothing, there would be a gradual slope til you get to about 153 bytes, where inscriptions become cheaper. And those weren't cheaper til segwit, so there would probably be no slope til then. Because there is a cliff, that means there are spammers out there who decided not to go through the trouble of bypassing the filter, and that means the filter worked.
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My point was the filters work at some point in time to change some small behaviors, but ultimately it’s economic pressure that determines the long term out come. what is a dozen years to lifespan of the time chain?
Am I mistaken in thinking we would rather have all the garbage in op return vs elsewhere. If filters drive spammers to pollute other parts of the chain can you actually claim that filters have worked?
If people want larger and cheap data storage currently it is my understanding that they wrap data in taproot scripts because the size limits are much larger and the witness discount makes it much cheaper. So is it really op return filtering or is it the economics of taproot that is at issue?
I’m just curious why all the attention is on op return when there are currently higher limit lower fee data storage options.