Quote from: Synchronice on Today at 07:31:43 PM

Why should I sacrifice my finances for The Foundry, BitFury and other giant mining companies?

You shouldn't and I hope that my post didn't come across that way to you?

Quote from: Synchronice on Today at 07:31:43 PM

They are making tons of money by getting super cheap electricity and some other benefits that commercial giants gain. Some mining companies don't even pay taxes.
There is a difference between earning enough to cover expenses and earning as much as possible by milking other people via dirty plan.

You can argue the same for any high performing business though do you really think that in this unregulated space, miners are going to sit back and say "Oh, my belly is full, we make enough profit, why should we make more by extracting exorbitant value from the Bitcoin blockchain via Ordinals while we can?"

This makes no sense. Businesses are made to profit, miners are no exception. If there is an opportunity to make more bitcoin or money, they will do it.

Quote from: Synchronice on Today at 07:31:43 PM

To be honest, I am not against Ordinals, I just want normal transaction fees for users like me to be able to use Bitcoin for regular payments.

Then you should be against ordinals.

Not only is it outside of what Bitcoin is intended for, it is stopping regular users like you from being able to interact with the chain normally.

Quote from: Synchronice on Today at 07:31:43 PM

I have a very mixed feeling about Bitcoin Ordinals. One part of me wants to block Bitcoin Ordinals because they exploit the bug of Bitcoin protocol, their place isn't here and they are the reason behind enormously high transaction fees but another part of me wants to keep them on Bitcoin network because if people want to spend tons of dollars to buy meaningless shit, I think we shouldn't stop them, it's all their budget. If they don't want their money and want to throw away in the garbage, let them do it because there are other smart people who will collect that money. It's not a scam or ponzi scheme, every buyer knows that they buy bullshit and they do it intentionally. I just can't imagine how Ordinal creators are willing to pay tons of money in transaction fees just to create ordinals. Seems, there is a huge demand on garbage from hundreds of thousands of people.

Your first point is valid. Your second point is confusing.

Based on your logic, we should do nothing to aware people of phishing and scams as "if that's what they want to do and it's in their budget, then we should let them".

Though that aside....
I feel very strongly that you and everyone else are completely misreading the network traffic. While the "X" platform might make everyone look individual, they are not....and while ordinal traffic seems like just a bunch of idiots flipping garbage, this is not what us driving demand...continuing on by replying to BHC:

Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on Today at 07:39:28 PM

Quote from: BenCodie on Today at 10:51:28 AM

I can assure you, these idiots are not the ones who are inflating the chain. It is intentional work.

To me it seems like a coincidence. The theory that Ordinals were invented to fill the miners' pockets is nothing more than conspiracy, unless you have tangible evidence.

You can logically deduce what is happening...and if I or anyone else had the tools or time to analyze every ordinals transaction based on value, with additional chain analysis to link any KYC'd exchanges or any institution/company involvement, I would be almost certain that one will find connections and that the BRC20 agenda is definitely not 100% driven by non motivated individuals who are flipping garbage which seems to be the narrative (or naïveté) that this forum is following at the moment.

Just think of how many conspiracies you have heard of in the last 20-30 years, and how much has turned out to be true after the CIA declassified their documents, and as humans became smarter with more information.

Most of us are long past using "conspiracy" to discredit logical opinions rather than providing valid reasoning to rationalize the opposing opinion.