• Bitcoin’s design objective is the secure, decentralized transfer of value.
• Every transaction represents a financial state transition: ownership of sats moving between keys.
• The block size and scripting capabilities are intentionally limited to preserve decentralization.
• Storing arbitrary or non-monetary data bloats the blockchain permanently.
• Increased chain size leads to higher storage, bandwidth, and validation costs for all nodes.
• Excessive non-financial use centralizes the network by pricing out home node operators.
• Bitcoin’s immutability demands responsible usage—every byte is an eternal burden.
• Embedding unrelated data (NFTs, files, messages) exploits consensus for non-consensus purposes.
• Such actions mirror altcoin behavior: complexity, bloat, centralization.
• Bitcoin is not a general-purpose data store or computational engine.
• The UTXO set must remain manageable to maintain full node accessibility.
• Abuse of the base layer invites soft forks and protocol changes—threats to monetary immutability.
• Non-financial uses break the economic symmetry between cost of inclusion and utility.
• Layered scaling (e.g. Lightning) exists precisely to offload non-core functionality.
• Preserving Bitcoin’s integrity requires ideological clarity: it is money, not middleware.