I believe that to defend the network we need a more dogged mindset than this. It might be doable to store 21TB in the next 100 years, but if it turns out it's just 11TB because we've kept 10TB of gifs, jpeg and json out of the blockchain then we'd have done a much better job, because all other things being equal there would be more pleb nodes.
And Luke and me thinking about this shouldn't help you sleep better. Bitcoin is a decentralized network and thus emergent behavior from independent actors is needed for things to happen. The blocksize war would've gone differently if one guy worried about it and all the node runners had sat on the fence.
What should help you sleep better is figuring out how to run ordisrespector and do it (assuming you don't want to relay unconfirmed inscriptions), even if your individual action doesn't have a visible effect on the whole picture.
Unhosted Marcellus
npub100…dfyy5
2023-08-02 15:28:20
in reply to nevent1q…rxe3
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npub100mahqlhxg50thmt5dyynu40nl25hat9kkkknzk8pqjfkvgq0xsqtdfyy5Published at
2023-08-02 15:28:20Event JSON
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