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@ Cykros
2025-05-25 02:34:44
I personally don't dedicate ram, processing power, and electricity so that I can store and forward jpegs (potentially of questionable content) for spammers. I do it so I can help maintain the most perfect monetary system the world has ever yet seen.
That said, I'd rather they use OP_RETURN than bloat the UTXO set. However, they won't, because of the segwit discount.
At the end of the day the OP_RETURN limit isn't about what ends up in the chain anyway; it's about who gets to decide what my node's mempool policy is going to be. That is, what I'M going to use MY resources for in order to assist in getting it proliferated across the network. I've no delusions that running Knots will stop anything from getting on the chain. But it will remind the spammers they're not welcome, and it will make them expend more energy to get it included. And it won't cost me a dime to do so.