TheCharlatan on Nostr: The problem with the patch from the perspective of disallowing data embedding is that ...

The problem with the patch from the perspective of disallowing data embedding is that for it to be effective an overwhelming majority of nodes would have to upgrade to this patch. In the time where most nodes are not upgraded yet, the network will perform in a degraded manner, but data carrying transactions will still be relayed. If most nodes eventually upgrade, it is easy for the spammer to come up with a new script variation that is not covered by the current filter, which starts the entire game again. At the moment nodes upgrade very slowly. It usually takes years before a big majority of nodes upgrade to the newest version. You could argue that this is fine, and people will just be encouraged to update faster, but then you enter dangerous "auto-updating" teritory, which is against the core tenets of our project.