1) I guess we disagree on the "nodes should stay neutral" and "nurture behaviour with economic incentives and not morals". I got into btc and run a node because of btc the monetary network/database. I don't understand why we have to facilitate other non-monetary uses and use economic incentives to try and supress them instead of supressing them as much as possible with what we can
2) I don't care if someone wants to put a jpeg every now and then in the btc blockchain, but I think what "knots ppl" are worried about is:
- monetary transactions will become more expensive having to compete with jpeg transactions (it is not certain that being more expensive will fade out jpeg ppl)
- it opens up the possibility for actors with huge capital to spam btc to the point of rendering it non-functional for monetary network purposes (I don't see why we should exposes ourselves to such risk)
- it's already so hard to make ppl understand what btc is, if now they see more jpeg of monkeys in it, it will become even more difficult to make ppl understand this is the greatest way in history to exchange money between ppl
Sorry if I come across as unpleasing man, but we got this thing which is the greatest thing ever discovered and we are "polluting" it with useless shit. I don't agree that btc should be whatever the market decides and if ppl want to use it for jpegs than be it. I'm pretty sure this whole debate is because many ppl (myself included) run nodes (so invest money and effort) because they believe in btc the monetary network. Nodes should decides the fate of btc, not the market demand. We nodes want to see a world where ppl are free to exchange the greatest money ever discovered withouth intermediaries (and all the beautiful consequences that this will have)
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