<oembed><type>rich</type><version>1.0</version><title>LynAlden wrote</title><author_name>LynAlden (npub1a2…cw83a)</author_name><author_url>https://yabu.me/npub1a2cww4kn9wqte4ry70vyfwqyqvpswksna27rtxd8vty6c74era8sdcw83a</author_url><provider_name>njump</provider_name><provider_url>https://yabu.me</provider_url><html>I think JPEGs on the timechain are stupid.&#xA;&#xA;But the idea that they&#39;re going to hurt Bitcoin seems so weak to me. Like the US dollar can withstand people scribbling on it but Bitcoin can&#39;t?&#xA;&#xA;In fact, the idea of Bitcoin as a glorious digital monument with some graffiti scribbled on it represents humanity pretty well. That&#39;s kind of us in a nutshell. Seems on-brand. Perfectionists trying to keep their little gardens tidy while trolls come in and find ways to mess with them anyway.&#xA;&#xA;NFTs and memecoins already had their peak fad moments. People now know that they&#39;re non-scarce gambling toys rather than investments. It&#39;s just echoes of that peak now. The only thing that concerned me about the ordinals/runes period was the rapid UTXO bloat, not the blockspace usage, since the latter already has a consensus limit on it.&#xA;&#xA;And if Bitcoin transactions can&#39;t outprice JPEGs in the long run, then it&#39;s just not that valuable. Bitcoin currently does about 1% of the gross settlement volume of Fedwire. That&#39;s peanuts. Imagine if it reaches a point where it does even like 10% of Fedwire. What would you pay to move a full bitcoin globally, permissionlessly, in 10 minutes, in a world where it&#39;s no longer a niche thing?&#xA;&#xA;</html></oembed>