It's never appropriate to use the blockchain as storage.
I guess you are speaking for satoshi then?
I find your reasonings behind much of your arguments to be rather moot.
I get it, you don't want to force everyone to relay our data.
That is fair.
Also what you are arguing right now is that having 40 more bytes of storage will increase spam which... I'm not sure what your point is.
But obviously the future makes that argument moot doesnt it?
In the future downloading the entirety of the blockchain won't be necessary, due to
pruning or
redundant mirroring with integrity checking storage (a la Freenet or torrent) or even some
selective blockchain transactional query type system. So who really cares if there is more spam in the blockchain? You won't have to see it or download it.
Heres an excerpt from wiki regarding
Kryder's Law:
A PhysOrg.com article reports on a 2009 study by Mark Kryder.[4] According to the report, if hard drives continue to progress at their current pace, then in 2020 a two-platter, 2.5-inch disk drive will be capable of storing more than 14 terabytes (TB) and will cost about $40.
And from another site regarding
Nielsen's Law:
Nielsen's Law of Internet bandwidth states that:
- a high-end user's connection speed grows by 50% per year
So if downloading the blockchain and storing the blockchain is not the problem because we won't need to store the entirety of the blockchain in the future and because obviously we don't really need to worry about any increase in blockchain size going forward, what is your current argument? That today and right now this second you don't want an extra 40 bytes max per tx taking up space on your HDD?
Obviously the future of bitcoin does not entail downloading the whole blockchain. This is inefficient and crude to say the least.
So you want to stifle innovation now because of a perceived problem that will be rendered moot/irrelevant in the near future.Do you not see that as nearsighted?
tl;dr:
Bitcoin devs cut max bytes from 80 to 40 to reduce spam, irrelevant due to Nielsen's/Kryder's laws and the advancement of bitcoin technology in general.