Quote from: BlackHatCoiner on April 23, 2024, 07:34:17 PM

Quote from: Pmalek on April 23, 2024, 05:01:45 PM

Then, that someone is free to suggest what should be done to change/stop the threat and the community will decide the course of action.

You're missing the point. Sure, theoretically we can softfork and "fix the exploit" if there's enough demand. But, the Ordinal users can find another loophole to store their data, and it'll probably be worse for the rest of us. Imagine if Ordinal users bloated the UTXO set instead of using tapscript. That'd be a verification nightmare, and I'm sure they can handle it financially!

There. Is. No. Room. For. Censorship. The more you try to censor what you deem as "spam", the more you're pushing that spam to become indistinguishable from monetary transactions.

Ordinal users could just switch to Runes, since it use OP_RETURN which usually deemed as less controvesial. And soft-fork isn't needed as we could just make Ordinal TX become non-standard, just like how SegWit address with uncompressed public key categorized as non-standard.

Quote from: LoyceV on Today at 08:05:58 AM

Quote from: JayJuanGee on Today at 01:41:40 AM

I am kind of seeing a similar thing while at the same time starting to feel some kind of a tinge of an attack on the bitcoin network and transactability of regular folks, but I still am tentatively considering that they are not going to be able to keep it up, becuase there would have to be buyers

I'm not so optimistic. Once one scam fails, they'll move to the next one. We've already gone from NFT to Inscription to Ordinal to Rune, just like many altcoins were created in the past, followed by many ICOs, many Bitcoin Forks, DeFi BS and more.

At very least, Bitcoin Layer 2 and sidechain gaining popularity, so let's hope those arbitrary data spam or scam attempt will move to one of them soon.