I do not have an opinion of Citrea because I've not studied it.
I've bridged 10 Testnet over into "cBTC"... which just feels like an ETH altcoin. I don't mind it, but I won't us it. I think Bitcoin is scaleable in centralized systems much more efficiently and it's cheaper for the user (or at least me). Been there, done that. Cool, go for it, but not for me.
All of the services attached to Citrea seem to be open source stuff and none of it is actually turned on. Everything is "coming soon"... thus far, I haven't actually found a way to try to blowup some of these NFT's or other various potentially large spam items ass out of the water using their testnet work. (I've possibly just not found it yet, I'm still searching. It should be obvious on the blockchain when I find something I can abuse.)
Has anyone else had any luck using Citra bridged Bitcoins to create spam? If so, I'd really appreciate a link. Thanks!
Citrea was indeed what started the discussion in the developer mailing list. Just because their "workaround" around the OP_RETURN limit is currently spamming the UTXO set with "fake public keys" in their transactions (although on a very small scale compared to Ordinals Stampchain). The idea was to nudge them to use OP_RETURN instead (removing the limits), which would be less resource-hungry for full nodes.
That's the whole "Citrea issue". Building a "Core corruption story" around that is quite lame, I think.
And thus I'm very disappointed from those developers who are now fueling this anti-Core shitstorm. Because they should know better.
You realize that Bitcoin Contributors helped beat the system and then said "hey look, we can beat the system, we should change it anyways!" All while getting $15 million dollars too! They also recked Testnet 3, or tried. (which I get no one cares about this, and I don't either, but it is still interesting).
Kinda gay. I mean whatever, but I feel like there should be good enough disclosure so that a person like GMaxwell knows why a proposal made it across his desk. Esp if it is changes that could potentially hit all of us that choose to continue to support Bitcoin Core. *shrug*