On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 10:21 AM Andrew Poelstra <apoels...@wpsoftware.net> wrote:
8< > Unfortunately, as near as I can tell there is no sensible way to prevent > people from storing arbitrary data in witnesses without incentivizing > even worse behavior and/or breaking legitimate use cases. 8< > There's a reasonable argument that this sort of data is toxic to the > network, since even though "the market is willing to bear" the price of > scares blockspace, if people were storing NFTs and other crap on the > chain, then the Bitcoin fee market would become entangled with random > pump&dump markets, undermining legitimate use cases and potentially > preventing new technology like LN from gaining a strong foothold. But > from a technical point of view, I don't see any principled way to stop > this. > > > > -- > Andrew Poelstra > Director of Research, Blockstream > Email: apoelstra at wpsoftware.net > Web: https://www.wpsoftware.net/andrew > > The sun is always shining in space > -Justin Lewis-Webster > Thank you for your reply and explanations. If it be so, then I think the principled route would be to make it a priority to continuously educate people on the morals of the matter. Rather than for fads and scams, the world would be a better place if ordinal inscriptions were used for enduring, practical, and universally beneficial purposes, such as for domain name inscription to solve the DNS centralization problem. _______________________________________________ bitcoin-dev mailing list bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev
