Quote from: d5000 on Today at 04:37:17 AM

Maybe you're right and it isn't illegal if it's a "young woman". I've also no intention to investigate that issue further.

My point was going more into another direction: We can't rely on the hope that nobody would ever insert illegal data in the blockchain. Because as I wrote there are ways to do this without Taproot or Ordinals. And someone who wants to destroy Bitcoin could use whatever method, even those old methods from 2013 requiring fake addresses and a lot of block space.

I'm also sure that one who really wanted to do it could even insert whatever data in a blockchain without any scripting, like Monero (that's also an answer to @n0nce). One simply would use a combination of addresses, transactions and amounts which would encode the picture, text or whatever, and then build a protocol around it. Would consume lots of block space as it's very inefficient, but it remains possible. If the protocol prevents you from see the data directly like they appear on-chain, you would have to use a vanitygen-style trial-and-error approach which would be more expensive, but always possible.

That's why I cited Arvind Narayanan. The crucial word is "intent". If you are using Bitcoin for financial things, not decoding illegal data/files, and (as a miner) reporting to the authorities if you have some info about someone who is trying to insert such data in the blockchain (i.e. IP adresses) then you should be safe.

(And no, I'm not endorsing Ordinals on BTC, but I stay with the stance that it's not as problematic as some see it.)

Like i said the point is to make it more expensive/annoying for spam than genuine transactions, nobody expects perfection. People don't have time to be inspecting spam and determine its "legality", that's all beyond the point. There is no good or bad spam, its spam when its not actual transactions; make it hard and expensive for them.

Rule relaxing seems to have made it easier for spammers, as we have seen here, and this should be addressed somehow. It IS a problem.

In the meantime, the transaction i started the 11th, is still waiting in line while Ordinals spam keeps cutting the line...