Again, you neglect the third option: someone who wants to send bitcoin but also wants to embed “arbitrary” data (which is, of course, not “arbitrary” to them, but essential, based on their subjective value of the data).
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I reject the 3rd option because it’s logically invalid. A and ~A
there cannot be two top priorities.
I either care most about how much bitcoin is being sent, and not care as much about whatever arbitrary data I add,
or
I don’t care as much about the bitcoin sent and care most about the data i add.
it’s either a monetary transaction that just so happens to have arbitrary data
or
it’s a non monetary transaction that just so happen to have some monetary data
it’s really not complicated
it’s a recognition not a calculation