Quote from: BenCodie on December 21, 2023, 09:21:39 PM

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

There is a difference between the ways you profit. They better profit by creating a miner that uses less energy and generates higher hashrate rather than profiting from regular bitcoin users by spamming the network. To be honest, I think that there might be a cartel between Bitcoin ordinals teams and miners. Otherwise, why would they pay such a high fees? I don't say this is true but it might be true. Can't find any other logical explanation to this nonsense. Are people really willing to pay so much money just for creating one ordinal? How will they profit if they pay $40 in a single one, does everyone expect to profit millions from each of them?

Quote from: BenCodie on December 21, 2023, 09:21:39 PM

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".

I have not said that about phishing and scams. Are ordinals scams? No, you can't argue, no one steals money from you, you see and know exactly what you are willing to buy instead of saving a JPEG file. If people are willing to pay tons of money in a dumb ape art, why should I stop them? Maybe they think it's the real art and call bullshit to Leonardo Da Vinci's art? Taste is very individual and changes over time. Maybe they see something amazing in dumb ape that we can't see.

I feel high when I see someone paying millions of dollars in NFT garbage, I just can't stop laughing.

Quote from: pooya87 on December 22, 2023, 05:42:44 AM

When we have newbies who don't understand how things work and still think the junk they're buying is a "token" and call it things like "BRC-20", it is not really surprising to see some of these newbies make giant mistakes such as paying a ridiculously high fee that makes no sense otherwise.

I don't know why this particular case happened but we know for sure that we are going to see a lot more dumb mistakes like this in the future. Even more of them if full nodes start rejecting the Ordinals Attack and the scammers are forced to use third party software to circumvent a lot of stuff...

Does it make sense to say that there is a cartel between bitcoin ordinals team and big mining corporations? Like ordinals say: I'll produce tons of bullshit bitcoin ordinals, will pay a fortune (but you pay me back), this will increase transaction fees, you'll benefit and also I'll benefit by selling these junks. These high fees are also a great marketing for bitcoin ordinals because many articles are written and there is a big discussion. A huge win for ordinals and miners. Doesn't my theory make sense?