The “spam is bad for bitcoin” arguments land at about a 2/10 (10 being compelling) for me. Always open to more data on this and will change my mind/ stop using bitcoin for art if it comes to it. I am even willing to migrate to eth for this stuff.*
And I can see how reasonable people fall into the 5-10/10 camp, many or all of core is actually here, and so they naturally will want to reduce it.
I can see how it’s reasonable to change your client default settings, not bitcoin, to influence people to keep data out of the utxo set, which is where “real” (imo inconsequential, but clearly harder to prune) bloat lives. Reasonable.
Where I stop is changing bitcoin to accommodate 10/10ers, in a way that doesn’t solve the “problem”, and leans heavily on pure gaslight marketing. I still respect them as human beings, but not as strategists, and I now question their sincerity from the start.
*Why don’t I? It’s by default a weaker software for art because the tokenomics will break at some point meaning the medium will die eventually and most of their storage is ipfs and not permanent to begin with.
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