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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: People who run Bitcoin Nodes, what's your opinion about the Ordinals/NFT?
by
Cricktor
on 24/01/2024, 05:31:18 UTC
Your HD/SSD space is being used by Ordinals/NFT users right now. Do you like this? Do you consent?

Curently I run four unpruned nodes and every node has a particular purpose for me. It's not that I believe more nodes do more benefit for the Bitcoin network; I just have my own uses for my nodes.

As of now this is current storage usage:
Code:
575G ./blocks
9,9G ./chainstate
56G ./indexes

Since the exploit of the vulnerability and I see it as a vulnerability to add arbitrary discounted(!) witness data the growth rate of the blockchain has slightly but notably increased, the change is visible. My 1TB storage devices will still last for quite some time, no need to make a fuss of it.

At first I was annoyed thinking about all the, in my personal opinion, shit stored by inscriptions into the immutable blockchain. But after some thinking I have to say that it's not me to decide what people write into blocks. I'm annoyed of the pure existance of the vulnerability that allows an easy and discounted storage of larger amounts of data bloating blocks up to almost 4MB (occasionally).

I know with OP_RETURN it was and is possible to write (undiscounted!) arbitrary data in small chunks into the blockchain. You need to use this? Go ahead, it's up to you. You want to abuse OP_RETURN? I say, shame on you, you violate the spirit of Bitcoin.

Should the vulnerability be closed? Yes, absolutely, every exploitable vulnerability should be fixed. Period! Don't mistake it as an act of censorship.