drgo on Nostr: It’s a shame there are no consensus rules to protect bitcoin from spam…and if ...

It’s a shame there are no consensus rules to protect bitcoin from spam…and if there are consensus rules to protect bitcoin from spam, we should tighten them so much that bitcoin can never do anything other than pay to public key hashes of a specific form. And those hashes must correspond to real private keys, so transactions need to prove key existence by disclosing pubkey so to prevent arbitrary data storage.

Oh, wait, spam isn’t an issue anymore because we have effective consensus rules that don’t unnecessarily restrict bitcoin use cases.

Not humble people tend to think they know what is best for bitcoin and that they have the right to determine how all humans must use it. Beware that little Nazi that lives in the heart of all of us; the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

I’m no spam enthusiast. But I am a spam ignorer, knowing it doesn’t really matter, even if continued to be done in the worst way possible.