{"id":129483,"date":"2025-05-18T10:17:11","date_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129483"},"modified":"2025-05-18T10:17:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-18T10:17:11","slug":"bitcoin-standard-author-backs-funding-dev-to-make-spamming-bitcoin-costly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=129483","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Bitcoin Standard\u2019 author backs funding dev to make spamming Bitcoin costly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEconomist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous,\u00a0has weighed in on the ongoing debate over spam inscriptions on the Bitcoin network, suggesting he would \u201cthrow in a few sats\u201d to fund a full-time developer focused on making Bitcoin spamming more difficult and expensive.<br \/>\nAmmous made the remarks in response to a thread initiated by the pseudonymous developer GrassFedBitcoin, who called for Bitcoin Core to merge pull request #28408, which would enable node operators to filter inscriptions more easily.<br \/>\nAccording to GrassFedBitcoin, the lack of inscription filtering tools contributes to unnecessary blockchain bloat and undermines Bitcoin (BTC)\u2019s role as a monetary protocol.<br \/>\n\u201cNo one running a node wants to relay inscriptions,\u201d he wrote, arguing that the OP_RETURN limit increases were justified in the past under false assumptions. He pushed for a configurable, default policy discouraging the use of Bitcoin for storing JPEGs rather than monetary data.<br \/>\nBlockstream CEO Adam Back challenged the proposal, describing inscription filtering as an \u201carms race.\u201d He noted that spam data embedded in Bitcoin transactions can be endlessly modified using code structures, requiring constant updates to filtering tools.<br \/>\nSource: Adam BackRelated: Bitcoin Ordinals vs. Ethereum NFTs: A comparative overview<br \/>\nAmmous compares Bitcoin spam to email<br \/>\nAmmous compared the Bitcoin spam issue to email spam \u2014 another arms race society continues to fight without abandoning the system.<br \/>\n\u201cIt\u2019s not easy, but it\u2019s worth trying to help bankrupt the spammers faster,\u201d Ammous said. He argued that fighting spam is not censorship, noting that node operators already reject invalid transactions.<br \/>\n\u201cSo a node runner looking to remove retards&#8217; spam is no less valid than retards&#8217; spam,\u201d he added.<br \/>\nThe debate drew commentary from other users. One participant suggested Core developers treat spam-coding employees at certain startups as \u201cunwilling QA engineers\u201d and simply unstandardize every trick they deploy.<br \/>\nAmmous took it further, proposing to \u201cdeprecate\u201d the work of developers building spam tools and even hiring outside coders to overwhelm their systems.<br \/>\nSource: Saifedean AmmousThe conversation reflects ongoing tensions in the Bitcoin community over the network\u2019s intended use. With inscriptions continuing to congest the network, calls for technical countermeasures \u2014 and pointed critiques of those defending spam \u2014 are growing louder.<br \/>\nIn a Feb. 4 report, Mempool Research said the adoption of inscriptions could drive the Bitcoin network\u2019s average block size as high as 4 megabytes (MB) per block, far higher than current averages.<br \/>\nBitcoin\u2019s average block size \u2014 the amount of data in each block posted to the network\u2019s public ledger \u2014 is currently around 1.5 MB.<br \/>\nMagazine:\u00a0Arthur Hayes $1M Bitcoin tip, altcoins\u2019 powerful rally\u2019 looms: Hodler\u2019s Digest, May 11 \u2013 17<a href=\"https:\/\/cointelegraph.com\/news\/saifedean-ammous-funds-dev-to-fight-bitcoin-spam?utm_source=rss_feed&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Cointelegraph.com NewsEconomist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous,\u00a0has weighed in on the ongoing debate over spam inscriptions on the Bitcoin network, suggesting he would \u201cthrow in a&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129483"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=129483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=129483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=129483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=129483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}