Economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous, has weighed in on the ongoing debate over spam inscriptions on the Bitcoin network, suggesting he would “throw in a few sats” Fund a full time developer who is focused on making Bitcoin-spamming harder and more expensive.
Ammous’ remarks were in response to a post by the pseudonymous Bitcoin Core developer GrassFedBitcoin who asked for the merge of pull request 28408, that would allow node operators filter inscriptions easier.
According to GrassFedBitcoin the lack of inscription-filtering tools leads to an unnecessary blockchain bloat that undermines Bitcoin.BTCThe role of ) as a financial protocol
“No one running a node wants to relay inscriptions,” He wrotearguing the OP_RETURN limits were increased in the past based on false assumptions. He called for an configurable default policy that discourages the use of Bitcoin to store JPEGs instead of monetary data.
Adam Back, Blockstream CEO, challenged this proposal by describing the inscription filtering process as an “arms race.” He said that the code structures can modify spam data, resulting in constant filtering tool updates.
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Ammous compares Bitcoin to spam email
Ammous compared the Bitcoin spam issue to email spam — another arms race society continues to fight without abandoning the system.
“It’s not easy, but it’s worth trying to help bankrupt the spammers faster,” Ammous said. He said that fighting spam was not censorship and that operators of nodes already rejected invalid transactions.
“So a node runner looking to remove retards’ spam is no less valid than retards’ spam,” He added.
Other users commented on the debate. Another participant said Core developers should treat employees who code spam at some startups like “unwilling QA engineers” Unstandardize all tricks they use.
Ammous proposed that the senate adopt a new law. “deprecate” The work of the developers who build spam tools, and hire outside coders in order to overload their systems.
This conversation is a reflection of the ongoing debate in the Bitcoin world over how the network should be used. With inscriptions continuing to congest the network, calls for technical countermeasures — and pointed critiques of those defending spam — are growing louder.
Mempool Research reported in a report dated February 4, that the adoption of inscriptions Bitcoin’s network could be a major driver of the cryptocurrency average block size as high as 4 megabytes (MB) This is a far greater average than what we currently see.
Bitcoin’s average block size — the amount of data in each block posted to the network’s public ledger — is currently around 1.5 MB.
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Source: cointelegraph.com
