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The #bitcoin community is once again caught in a storm — this time over spam inscriptions clogging the network. And stepping into the spotlight is none other than Saifedean Ammous, economist and author of The Bitcoin Standard, who’s offering to fund a full-time developer to make spamming Bitcoin more expensive and difficult.
It all started with a thread by the pseudonymous developer GrassFedBitcoin, who urged Bitcoin Core to merge pull request #28408 The goal? To give node operators more power to filter out unnecessary data like JPEGs, which are causing massive blockchain bloat and threatening Bitcoin’s original purpose as sound money.
But not everyone agrees. #Blockstream CEO Adam Back pushed back, warning that filtering spam is like entering an "arms race" — spam code keeps evolving, and filtering tools would need constant updates.
Ammous, however, compared the situation to email spam, arguing that fighting spam is part of maintaining a clean system — not censorship. “Node operators already reject invalid transactions,” he said, “so rejecting spam isn’t a violation of Bitcoin’s principles.”
One community member even suggested that developers who create spam tools should be treated as "unwilling QA engineers" — and that Bitcoin Core should deprecate their methods while hiring external coders to crash their systems.
Meanwhile, Mempool Research reported that if the trend of inscriptions continues, the average Bitcoin block size could balloon to 4MB — up from the current 1.5MB, putting further pressure on fees and transaction times.
This heated debate reflects a deeper divide:
Is Bitcoin a monetary network or a decentralized data dumpster?
Binance users and traders should keep a close eye — this could reshape transaction fees, confirmation times, and the long-term role of Bitcoin in the crypto ecosystem.
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