Fair point. There is a purpose which is essentially censorship resistant data and value transfer. The protocol however does not care about the nature/purpose of that data and value though.
There’s a reason why the reaction from the vast majority of core devs on the mailing list to ordinals/inscriptions was that the data cap for OP_RETURN should just be lifted.
buck
npub15g…8r670
2023-04-17 02:29:31
in reply to nevent1q…5uyr
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npub15gaw9fpcwrleq332pl95xndencvwgwdtfee6ejlngp7waeh0e35sg8r670Published at
2023-04-17 02:29:31Event JSON
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