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Ferris Bueller 5 months ago
It is a reasonable question and I don't understand why its hard for you to answer. I would argue all day that we should relay what is necessary to maintain consensus because maintaining this new monetary system is a net benefit to society even if it includes illicit material. I however cannot defend an individuals actions that knownly and purposely decided to store it when there is a perfectly good alernative. Opening ourselves unnecessarily to legal and the court of public opinion for almost no reason is just not a positive and i don't see why we need to put it on the front page when it can atleast stay buried in witness data for now. This defeatist additude you have is really sad. The btc community (atleast that run a node and use it) isn't that big yet. You can make your voice heard and make a difference if you decide too.

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I think it is wrong from a legal perspective and a court of public opinion perspective to differentiate illegal arbitrary data between STAMPS, OP_RETURN, and ordinals. still if large OP_RETURN values bother you so much, you should make a fork of bitcoin where they are invalid in consensus. it doesn't matter what core does and it doesn't matter if lots of people run knots. these transactions are still valid and we must assume that some miner will get them and confirm them because of censorship resistance. you must make them invalid in consensus.