SegWit was a consensus change. Taproot was a consensus change. Nobody called those ‘changing Bitcoin’ because they moved Bitcoin forward. BIP-110 is a consensus change that moves Bitcoin BACK to its purpose. The framing of ‘change’ only cuts one way if you’ve already decided inscriptions belong here.

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Very good point about Segwit and Taproot being consensus changes. And they're all soft forks, so in that sense it's also the same. But, and this is a big but, nobody lost anything (as far as I know) from Segwit and Taproot, e.g. they restricted previously unused functionality in such a way to make the unused functions usable, i.e. giving them structure to actually create new monetary use cases. It just so happened that by enabling new monetary use cases, they also enabled new non-monetary use cases as a side effect. As you pointed out, that is different to BIP110 which is a minority of users trying to add restrictions to functionality that other people are actually using right now, not to enable any new use cases, but to take them away. I'm not sure how I feel about that myself, I'm really on the fence still. But it is important to acknowledge that BIP110 will limit potential monetary use cases on Bitcoin (which would be the sorts of things that would improve scaling and privacy) purely to stop JPEGs on chain. And in all honesty, as someone who's all in on Bitcoin and who runs a node, I'm not sure I care at all about JPEGs on chain. I can't see how it's affected me. I mean, I already had a 2TB SSD for my node, if I have to increase to 4TB on day then fine. And I don't care about JPEGs that I can't see, they're not bothering me. What I'm waaaay more worried about is that nobody is really using Bitcoin! All this energy would've been way better spent figuring out how to get actual adoption, because blocks are mostly empty, the chain is just dead, I don't see any merchants trying to adopt it. It's just crickets out there. Suit Coiners everywhere, and everyone else has just moved onto AI. And then people go on about how "agents are going to transact in sats because they can't get a credit card", and I just think HA, watch how fast the powers that be figure how to get regulatory permission and capture to give AI agents credit cards (or access to their human's cards), and how mindlessly most people will just use whatever walled gardens they're placed in. So at this stage I feel like Bitcoin is in a massive fight to stay relevant and actually build a network effect, and we're here arguing about JPEGs on chain, and I've never seen one of these JPEGs or had any awareness of any downsides as my node sits there running. But I do worry about messing things up, especially if there are monetary use cases to Segwit/Taproot in their current form. And I worry far more about Bitcoin just stalling out from lack of adoption.