My only point is that it's foolish to tear down functionality just because a subset of its uses are annoying. Spam doesn't break Bitcoin and that's a proven fact. Illicit material on the blockchain can't break Bitcoin because no government's authority spans the whole internet. Spam can't make the blockchain grow faster than blocks full of monetary transactions can. None of the arguments hold water.
And the fact that there is a small group of people that uncommonly militant about this and trying to get as many people on board with the soft forks using any means necessary only adds to my suspision that the functionality they're trying to kill is more important than people think and worth defending.
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Fantastic explanation
This is so logically broken. Your "suspicion" ... What functionality? If you have identified something other than spam and shitcoing that 110 breaks, please report it. If you can't be specific you are talking out of your ass.
Not convinced, but you make a few points.
People getting militant about this isn’t surprising. The direction things have gone — allowing more non-monetary uses of blockspace — is concerning if it starts to burden node runners. Maybe it’s a bit of a boogeyman… but history shows that when you give an inch, a mile sometimes follows.
There may be solutions for that too.
Bitcoin’s timechain isn’t meant to be a panopticon of functionality, and it probably shouldn’t try to be.
What matters most is finding real consensus around the issue. I’d trust a solution that emerges from broad agreement far more than one driven by anger or suspicion.
Aren't we all 🍑
This whole "debate" is pointless and the onus lays entirely on those who want to change the rules. Doing nothing is the default option and the rational option. Changing the rules is insane and should be treated as such.
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I think I've seen a certain type of conversation play out before...are you planning on starting some kind of revolution against the current?
like what's the point anyway?. 💁♀️
The inch I'm not willing to give up is that a valid transactions today should be a valid transactions forever. I'm not willing to let others define what transactions deserve to go on chain and which ones don't, even if you can call them spam. You let them target spam and they'll feel entitled to target anything else in the future.
I'm not even willing to agree that there's an issue because I said before that none of the arguments make sense. What we already have broad agreement on is the current set of rules. My stance is just to keep those in place.