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There are 110 things more dangerous to Bitcoin than spam. BIP 110 turns a spam dispute into a consensus change that would invalidate some currently valid, fee-paying transactions. That precedent is the danger. We should save our energy for threats that really matter. $BTC




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…









































