From Cointelegraph
May 18, 2025 05:40:00 AM:

Economist Saifedean Ammous suggests funding a developer to combat Bitcoin spam. GrassFedBitcoin calls for inscriptions filtering tools to reduce blockchain bloat. Blockstream CEO Adam Back sees filtering as an “arms race” due to ever-evolving spam techniques. Debate intensifies over Bitcoin’s use and technical solutions to spam congestion.

Ammous draws parallels between Bitcoin spam and email spam, advocating for bankrupting spammers faster. He argues against spam filtering as censorship, emphasizing the rejection of invalid transactions by node operators. Suggestions include treating spam-coding employees as QA engineers and overwhelming spam tools with outside coders.

Mempool Research warns that inscriptions could push Bitcoin’s average block size as high as 4 MB. Current average block size is around 1.5 MB. The ongoing debate on Bitcoin’s intended use and technical countermeasures against spam highlights community tensions. Calls for action to address network congestion caused by inscriptions are growing louder.

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