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@ FernandoTheKoala
2025-05-14 07:17:35
thanks for replying man, much appreciated
1) Ok, so if I understand correctly, one way to get rid of spam would be to change what is a valid transaction at the consensus level. But this has already been tried few years ago and consensus was not achieved.
But if this is true, then the PR pushed just now also clearly was very controversial but was pushed anyway in a hurry....why?
2) When OP_RETURN was initially created in 2014, did spammers already used then witness and fake output for their spam transactions?
3) I get that big miners directly accept spam transactions thus creating several problems (mining centralization etc). But why are we not developing a way to prevent miners from doing this (at the consensus level?). And why are we so worried about miners' fee? I mean, the block reward is more than enough for few years. And even then, isn't the difficulty adjustment there exactly to self-manage miners ecosystem? Why are we intervening at policy level to facilitate them?
4) I guess what most ppl are worried about is that spam transactions will drive fee high and fill blocks thus making it harder and more expensive for money transactions to get in. Let's say that hypothetically by removing the limit (like now) it happens what I described above, will then core do a step back and re-instate the limit? because judjing from what core said and wrote, if this happens, then btc is a database for whatever the market wants it to be and they will not change anything (and I think this is what most ppl are worried about)
Cheers