I've been seeing many complaint about network spam by Veriblock IEO.
i personally consider these types of transaction spam, but technically they are not. because they are using one of the bitcoin features that was added a long time ago called OP_RETURN. this exact case is one of the reasons why so many developers were against addition of this "feature" to bitcoin which is a currency not a data storage!
What is your opinion on the matter? Should devs kick Veriblock, or allow them to spam the network to get more LN nodes?
bitcoin is not some centralized company controlled by "devs" so that they can "kick" anybody out!
what does it mean for LN? not much! although the higher fees and the fact that when you send a tx the fees may rise afterwards and you get stuck means LN becomes that much harder to use. since LN is the "second layer" not exactly a separate standalone network it needs the "first" layer which is on-chain t transactions to perform well and if it is not, the nit will also face problems.