<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>techfeudalist  wrote</title><author_name>techfeudalist  (npub1nz…0yxqu)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1nz3cd3mx4jf9paxwrdgqvchaprjdge9pj9t58mkusw74q5saajkqu0yxqu</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>I see it like this:&#xA;&#xA;What is our purpose or objective? &#xA;&#xA;We want bitcoin to be the world’s money because when the world adopts a hard money, there will be fewer wars, no inflation stealing people’s retirements, and more long-term thinking. &#xA;&#xA;Yes, runes and ordinals create demand for block space, but does that help us further our goal?&#xA;&#xA;What are the pros?&#xA;&#xA;The extra money paid to miners does incentivize more investment in mining and increase the network hashrate. In theory this provides more security to the network. &#xA;&#xA;What are the cons?&#xA;&#xA;It seems these fees are encouraging mining pool centralization through back channel payments (“MEVil”). &#xA;&#xA;Higher fees are preventing people around the world from using bitcoin as money. Transactions for lower value amounts will be delayed or won’t be feasible. &#xA;&#xA;My conclusion &#xA;&#xA;I view these “innovations” as a net negative because I don’t believe these new protocols increase bitcoin’s use as money and I don’t see the benefit to growing the hashrate artificially.</html></oembed>