The solution to the knots debate (or whatever it's called) is that the both sides must realize that every Bitcoin transaction is spam.
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Maybe this is obvious but I don't see it mentioned anywhere: everybody cares very little about transactions from people they're not involved with paying other people they know nothing about, it's just spam from the perspective of people not involved.
Also some random message written in an OP_RETURN is still more valuable (for anyone) than, for example, a financial transaction between two objectively evil people, for example, or, say, from mortal enemies of whoever is judging. In this sense a normal transaction can be worse than mere spam.
All of that considered, even your own transactions are still spam after they have been acknowledged as received then spent. At that point they're not even valuable to you anymore.
The entire blockchain history is spam.
Please let me know if I'm wrong, but if both sides realized this objective truth we could finally take some real moves to reduce spam.
Ideally we would transition to some complex client-side-validated scheme like shielded CSV, Tachyon or Intmax2 or whatever (I stopped trying to understand these things deeply since it apparently makes no difference towards our chances of improving Bitcoin).
Since none of that is possible we can take the second-best choice: reduce the blocksize, activate BIP-300 and BIP-301, let people use sidechains with these magnificent antispam ultrascaling properties to make actual financial transactions without burdening anyone else with their spam.
That is why we also preach hodling, so that people stop spamming the blockspace with their moronic transactions. If you really need to divorce yourself from your bitcoin just pass opendimes and satscards.
The blockchain isn’t spam—it’s the consensus-driven, immutable record of Bitcoin’s movement and spirit. Spammers are the ones who drown out real signals with noise and nonsense. I care about other people’s transactions because they give me price data and cash flow insights. But I don’t care about anything on-chain that doesn’t provide that kind of information.
To “spam the chat” is a DDoS attack, not just some arbitrary line about what’s acceptable. Bitcoin works because it’s designed to disincentivize spam. If someone’s pushing to incentivize spam, that feels off. The real question isn’t how to fill block space, but why block space is so cheap. That cheapness is the signal we should be decoding.
Another view:
From a node perspective wether something is spam or not is just a subjective opinion.
From the Bitcoin system perspective nothing in the blockchain is spam objectively: any transaction was considered as valid by at least one node.
You are spam, I am spam, we are all spam spammy spam 😂✌️🥕
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