Quote from: darkv0rt3x on Today at 03:55:04 PM

Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 03:42:53 PM

Just because you might not personally need them, doesn't mean other people don't. At the end of the day, if you can find a way to build it and it works, it's very difficult for people to stop you. Which is precisely why no one can shut Bitcoin down (that's a good thing, in case you needed the hint).

I'm not sure I understand what you mean by "I might not personally need them", doesn't mean other people don't". I was speaking on Bitcoin behalf, not on my singular behalf. The base layer was perfect as it was. It didn't need the extra garbage!

Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 03:42:53 PM

Just imagine the number of commercial banks, central banks, law enforcement agencies and governments who wish they could just snap their fingers and make Bitcoin disappear forever. But they can't. And yet, here people are saying they want to undermine the very freedoms that make it impossible for those entities to shut us down. Don't you see how reckless that it?

Did the Ordinals / Inscriptions, BRC-20 and ORC-20 changed any of that? Bitcoin was already like that before! As of now, the only way to shut Bitcoin down is to bring the entire internet down, and even so, as soon as any node at any point of the world became online again, it was enough to resume the network again. So, all these new garbage didn't bring anything new to the network.

Quote from: DooMAD on Today at 03:42:53 PM

Building more efficient ways to transact is always preferable versus trying to find ways to stop people transacting. Because once it's possible to stop people, THEN you'll find out what an "attack" on Bitcoin really looks like. I sincerely hope no one ever finds a way to prevent people from transacting. And I wish people understood why that's so unbelievably important.

Will people please listen to reason and stop being so short-sighted?

I understand that but the thing here is that this is only atracting shitcoiners! Bitcoin doesn't need shitcoiners! And it seems that these tokens (or whatever people call them) brought more adoption and more "traffic" to the network, but the point is also that thhey are not using the network to what it was supposed to be used in the first place! They are using it as cloud storage!

This is my view and I simply can't agree with this garbage!

*sigh*

I don't see how this is so difficult for people to grasp. Embedding non-financial data in the blockchain has always been there. People have been doing it for years. There's simply more of it now. This has always been possible.

On top of having that part wrong, your instinctive reaction to "fix" it is to CHANGE Bitcoin, in order to introduce gatekeepers to determine what is or isn't acceptable usage. This is fundamentally wrong, because once that's possible, law enforcement agencies will start looking for ways to introduce gatekeepers to prevent anyone who hasn't completed KYC from transacting. That would cause a pretty rapid end to this little experiment and Bitcoin would be considered a colossal failure. And that's just one possible example of ways things would turn to shit real quick if even a few of the censorship advocates in this topic had their way.

You are the bigger threat if you think gatekeepers in Bitcoin are a good idea. YOU are the ATTACK here.

Thankfully, the protocol cares about your "views" as much as it does the views of commercial banks, central banks, law enforcement agencies and governments. As such, the network will continue to accept transactions some would rather see blocked. Because that's what it was designed to do.

Some here consider Ripple a centralised shitcoin because it has centralised validation. It's the one where traditional finance institutions are building a permissioned network. Effectively, banks control the chain. At all times, they get to determine what is valid and what is invalid. They can also freeze balances if they choose to. But it's considered highly efficient. There are no silly pictures embedded in Ripple as far as I'm aware. Perhaps you'd rather take a look at that if you're struggling to cope with the level of freedom Bitcoin has afforded you. It sounds more akin to what you want.