Many say Bitcoin can't be stopped. Maybe it can't be stopped from the outside, but it can from the inside. Vulnerabilities can be introduced through modifications to code and/or ethos.

If you think data carrier transactions will outbid monetary transactions in the long run, why do you think Bitcoin is important?

Exactly

By the time monetary activity is able to outbid the casino, the blockchain will be turned into a dumpster fire of random files, so no one will run nodes, and Bitcoin will be as exciting as the next shitcoin. I signed up for the “separation of money from state” not the “merging of money with Epstein’s friends”.

That's Yogi Berra logic. "Nobody goes there anymore. It's too crowded." The blockchain is already a "dumpster fire of random files" and you can still transact on-chain for 1 sat/vb.

No, that was not what I was saying. If you can’t read, that’s not my problem.

I'm trying to understand your prediction. Bitcoin will be so full of files that people stop running nodes? Except for the people in favor of on-chain data, presumably. Do you think it'll be all data all the time, and no one can afford blockspace for monetary transactions? This seems to be what anti-Core people actually believe, and it's absurd.

You don’t need to understand my “prediction”. You only need to look at Ethereum for example, and contemplate a future in which the two look and feel practically the same.

Ethereum's problem isn't data, it's proof-of-stake and bad monetary policy. I hope Bitcoin does look like Ethereum, so it absorbs another $500 billion of capital. BTC will still be money, just worth more.

" I hope Bitcoin does look like Ethereum".. No man that's a terrible take. We need clear separation of shitcoins from Bitcoin, which is money

I knew someone would read that part and ignore the rest. People don't seem to understand that you CANNOT have a blockchain without arbitrary data storage. There is no magic money-only chain. As long as there is a market for putting data on chain, it WILL happen.

Ethereum’s problem is that basically no one runs nodes and that’s part of the reason it’s a centralised piece of crap.

your whole logic seemed to be solely based on the fact that if i can somehow put some blob data in some way or format no matter the fee or the decoding process then its possible and should be allowed. i wonder why inscriptions wasn't big thing before taproot? oh right, segwit v0 had a script size limit policy. and for some reasons we don't have any script size limit with tapscript making people able to use the witness data to store big files. so inscriptions become popular when core removed a size limit filter, interesting. idk if you are aware of the concept that if something becomes hard enough then it becomes infeasible. oh but wait if it ends up on the block then we can't do anything about it anyway whoaa. have you heard something called block propagation, and stale blocks? when i miner adds txs to blocks that nobody on the network haven't seen before their block has the risk of becoming stale. i wonder why miners charge more to include out of band txs? it must be because it costs them more. maybe that's why many miners experimented with sub 1 sat txs first but then decided not to include them later. because it was causing them to lose blocks. i wonder what happens if nodes also delay propagation of blocks that doesn't fit to their filters on purpose? but muh mining centralization, miners can charge more for out of batnd txs. yeah but it also costs them more to include them. also so your solution to mining centralization is allowing blob data on the network? really? that's what you come up with? have you heard of something called DATUM? the thing let's people mine their own blocks instead of giving hashrate to big centralized miners. b- but monetary txs should outbid parasites. bitcoin is not a market of everything, its money. only reason you can give examples of wide usage of other things is core silently removing filters like the script size limit. if they had same size limit on tapscript, we wouldn't be here talking atm. because inscriptions would be a small community of worthless "humans". your neighborhood wont fix itself with market incentives. because people can't think long term. they think about quick profits. they won't think about having a nice safe neighborhood makes their land and houses there more valuable. do you think civilization can exist without weapons? also, you must be one of those people seeing empty blocks and think they are problematic. instead of celebrating blockchain growing less. while we have many users transacting over lightning. amazing. i mean i can go on and on and on, but im gonna cut it short. filters/policy/community rules work. we need to make running a node easier and optimize its storage usage more. so people can actually easily run a modern node on their laptop without thinking about storage. bitcoin is a monetary network, and anything trying to abuse it as blob storage is just a parasite protocol. and should be attacked by all node software. mining needs to be decentralized and we need more pools with more miners using DATUM. which benefits them on the long run, because keeping neighborhood safe, keeps the value of your house. core is most likely compromised. they haven't just ended up here recently, they have been steadily coming to this state of things slowly over the years. by changing things slowly over time. your best bet is running knots atm. you can't stay with an older version of core. because it still can't detect and stop inscriptions. and many other harmful things for the bitcoin monetary network. on the long run? idk. rn knots is the best software with the most up to date patches against attacks. but later we might have more node options. that are more than just nodes. DATUM is gonna fix health of the mining as well. amazing software. gn