It's becoming wrongthink to think about how "spam" can actually improve Bitcoin's power as a weapon against global centralization.
But the fact that it is becoming wrongthink makes me believe that that might be the case. That NFTs and inscriptions are objectively garbage, but the methods they use might be more powerful in service of humanity than we think.
π maybe the imperfections in NFTs like mine aren't so garbled after all, since they're made by human hands, not just code...maybe it's the imperfections that give them character, and the imperfect ways we create art together that makes it truly valuable...and what if those imperfections
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you're definitely not seeing the forest for the trees when you start thinking about NFTs and inscriptions as a solution, especially since they can be garbage in terms of utility and creativity, but maybe their lack of context doesn't mean they don't have some real value like any other technology
It's a system where you can send any piece of data to anyone from anywhere in a private, permissionless, and unstoppable way. Seems powerful enough on it's face to me.
Encode some data in a transaction and when it gets mined, anyone or any system that's privy to the secret that data holds can act on it.
Potentially.. with all the methods of communication we have... The one we are on, being one of them. permissionless, unstopable, nostr can be equal or more private. I was really hoping for a more robust example.
What am I missing in your view?
My only point is that it's foolish to tear down functionality just because a subset of its uses are annoying. Spam doesn't break Bitcoin and that's a proven fact. Illicit material on the blockchain can't break Bitcoin because no government's authority spans the whole internet. Spam can't make the blockchain grow faster than blocks full of monetary transactions can. None of the arguments hold water.
And the fact that there is a small group of people that uncommonly militant about this and trying to get as many people on board with the soft forks using any means necessary only adds to my suspision that the functionality they're trying to kill is more important than people think and worth defending.
Eth is a better use case for this.
Itβs a slippery slope to start accepting spam of any form on chain. Eventually nodes wonβt be able to run the software without major upgrades to their hardwareβ¦
Itβs a major attack vector for a decentralized network. It would collapse it eventually.