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I knew there were people trying to turn Bitcoin into a general purpose Ethereum-style shitcoin thing for years, but I always assumed cool heads would prevail and common sense would reject those things. Well it turns out this one now is picking some traction. They basically want to allow non-Bitcoin things into Bitcoin. I don't see what the benefits of doing this is. It will just bloat the blockchain. The point of Bitcoin is to move money from A to B, everything else is bloat.


Although you're right that dick pics and fart sounds could make it more expensive to run a full node, I probably will disagree that there's absolutely no benefit if the transactions that you don't like happen in Bitcoin will happen in Bitcoin. Because sometimes when I check the mempool, I see this,



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The core benefit is incentives for the miners through fees.
Original archived Re: Removing OP_return limits seems like a huge mistake
Scraped on 07/05/2025, 05:31:53 UTC

I knew there were people trying to turn Bitcoin into a general purpose Ethereum-style shitcoin thing for years, but I always assumed cool heads would prevail and common sense would reject those things. Well it turns out this one now is picking some traction. They basically want to allow non-Bitcoin things into Bitcoin. I don't see what the benefits of doing this is. It will just bloat the blockchain. The point of Bitcoin is to move money from A to B, everything else is bloat.


Although you're right that dick pics and fart sounds could make it more expensive to run a full node, I probably will disagree that there's absolutely no benefit if the transactions that you don't like happen in Bitcoin will happen in Bitcoin. Because sometimes when I check the mempool, I see this,



 👀

The core benefit is incentives for the miners through fees.