Focusing solely on fee hikes in the inscription-spam debate overlooks the real issue: culture. Bitcoin’s power lies in being a pure monetary network, and tacking on metaprotocols—NFTs, tokens, JPEGs—distracts developers and erodes its core purpose. Yes, miners could be bribed to include spam, but if the network as a whole rejects this practice, venture capitalists won’t fund those meta-protocols. Finally, Taproot’s introduction of MAST was a huge win—by only revealing the spending script, it slashes on-chain data. Abusing Taproot to scatter JPEG fragments across the chain undermines that benefit and represents a serious misstep in Bitcoin’s evolution. Last but not least, sorry for the tone I used in my previous post. I am just very disappointed right now at smart people not seeing ANY issue with the current state of the Network and its development.