Quote from: Cricktor on May 19, 2025, 07:21:11 PM

When I see fee surges or occasional peaks in volume of transactions and I spot a lot of transactions flagged as data (most of them some OP_RETURN stuff), I peek here and there in those "data spam" transactions and mostly find in my chosen samples, by no means statistically representative, some Runestone crap. Whatever inscriptions became a bit rare (or I don't peek into the right corners).

As I'm not much interested to investigate this spam any further, I just wonder what new shitstone spam has been reinvented and who the hell pipes all the money into this. Whatever this is, likely more people will loose money and some rake it all up for their next scheme. I'm just mildly surprised how history can seemingly repeat itself. Ad infinitum, really? Yikes!

I wouldn’t say all of these projects are automatically worthless, but let’s be real most of them leave nothing useful behind once the hype fades and it all boils down to a few forgotten
transactions lingering in the mempool. There’s always someone trying to "expand" bitcoin’s purpose, but most of these attempts feel more like lab experiments than something that’s here to stay.And one question keeps popping into my head are these gimmicks actually clogging up the network and getting in the way of people who use bitcoin for what it was meant to be a reliable way to transfer and store value? Or are they just another short lived hype wave that disappears as soon as attention fades and wallets run dry?