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December 9, 2010. A user asks Satoshi Nakamoto why Bitcoin shouldn't just allow 64 or 128 bytes of "arbitrary data" in a transaction. His answer, verbatim: "I also support a third transaction type for timestamp hash sized arbitrary data. There's no point not having one since you can already do it anyway. It would tell nodes they don't need to bother to index it." Read the design spec inside that answer. Small. Standardized. Not indexed by nodes. Bitcoin Core shipped that exact spec in March 2014. It's called OP_RETURN. #Runes lives entirely inside OP_RETURN. One runestone per transaction, prunable, zero UTXO bloat, full market fees. #Ordinals pays the same toll through witness space. The only gatekeeper Satoshi ever wrote into the system was the fee. Both pay it. Now read BIP110. It proposes to reject the exact transaction class Satoshi said he supports, from the channel built to his own spec. That is not enforcing Satoshi's design. That is reversing it. And we already ran this experiment. In this same December 2010 thread, miners holding double digit hashrate publicly refused to filter non-standard transactions. Satoshi's response was not a crackdown. It was the quote above. Fees settled this in 2010. Fees are settling it again in 2026. Source: satoshi.nakamotoinstitute.org/posts/bitcoint…

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did you know that rare sats on bitcoin are not your average satoshis they stand out because of their rarity defined by the ordinals protocol and the rodarmor rarity index created by @rodarmor this system ranks satoshis based on when they were created in the bitcoin network uncommon sats are the first one in every mined block rare sats are the first after each difficulty adjustment period which occurs roughly every two weeks epic sats mark the beginning of new eras after each halving which happens every four years legendary sats are even rarer marking cycle changes and the mythic sat is the one and only sat zero from bitcoins genesis block these rare sats have become popular collectibles because they can be inscribed with unique data such as art or messages turning them into digital assets on the bitcoin blockchain their limited supply and historical significance make higher tier ones extremely valuable with some epic sats fetching prices in the millions of dollars beyond the main index collectors also seek out pizza sats connected to the iconic bitcoin pizza day and palindrome sats that have numbers reading the same forwards and backwards whether you are a bitcoin maximalist or a digital collector rare sats offer a fascinating way to engage with bitcoins past and future get started by learning about ordinals wallets and marketplaces to hunt these treasures (image powered by @xverse)