Re: (Ordinals) BRC-20 needs to be removed

Quote from: sherlockphone on April 03, 2024, 06:47:06 PM

well, There are those who say that this problem will be solved in version 27.0 of bitcoin core:

https://twitter.com/LukeDashjr/status/1732204937466032285
https://www.cryptoglobe.com/latest/2023/12/btc-developer-luke-dashjr-2024-bitcoin-core-update-will-disrupt-ordinals-and-brc-20-tokens/

It's somewhat old news and his idea got rejected, check https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28408.

Quote from: sherlockphone on April 03, 2024, 06:47:06 PM

what if some idiot puts malicious code into the blockchain and a bigger idiot in the government tries to outlaw the blockchain for some "national security" reasons or crap like that?

Such thing already happen, check https://www.righto.com/2014/02/ascii-bernanke-wikileaks-photographs.html. But for better or worse, it's not easy to extract the data.