Smart stacker

Nobody is arguing that 56b of JSON is the problem here.

There are arguments for knots but this post is polluting the discourse so there's no point in continuing the discussion here by posting links. The good faith discussion is happening elsewhere.

CSAM is not the same as tax evasion. There is such a concept in law called malum prohibitum and malum in se.

Malum in se refers to actions that are inherently evil or morally wrong in themselves, such as murder or arson, while malum prohibitum describes actions that are illegal only because a law prohibits them, not because they are inherently immoral, like jaywalking or certain regulatory violations. The key difference is whether the wrongful nature of the act is intrinsic and universally understood (malum in se) or created by a specific statute for public policy reasons (malum prohibitum).

Child abuse is bad in itself and everyone knows this, but people don't particularly care about regulatory misdemeanours, so even if the government can go after you (unless the number of people to go after is too high, we're not talking about Al Capone here) they are not going to be able to whip the electorate into a fever of moral indignation because you didn't pay CGT on the bitcoin you used to buy coffee.

But CSAM embedded in the transaction and relayed directly in full by nodes is an entirely different matter. The transaction itself and data storage are the criminal acts, they are not neutral vehicles for potentially criminal activities. Its the difference between passing money from one person to another but inadvertently helping someone to pay someone else to commit murder, and passing a banknote with a message in plain text that the receiver should murder someone.

The illegal and immoral content is on your machine, the medium of exchange is no longer neutral.

56 bites of JSON is simply not the same thing as 56kb of CSAM. Bad people who want to use a medium to transmit 56kb of CSAM will always outbid ordinary transactions, even of far higher value, because propagating that content is intentionally extremely difficult to do.

This is not what this argument is about:

{
"p": "brc-20",
"op": "mint",
"tick": "BTCBTC",
"amt": "10000000"
}

Why do you care about demand for block space? Bitcoin works great as money on L2. I want L1 as compact as possible on my SSD. But miners will centralize more without fee income? Stratum v2 is to fix that.

Your lack of Bitcoin knowledge is disturbing!

LN is THE payment network of Bitcoin. Onchain is only for final settlement (open/close LN channels).

Exactly, it was meant to reduce utxo set bloat by making utxo consolidation cheaper. But I think we can all agree at this point, it has had the complete opposite effect in practice. The net result has been more utxo bloat due to all the jpeg spam.

If blocks were still 1mb (i.e. no witness discount), and the jpegers were paying 4x the cost to fairly compete with monetary transactions, I think a lot of the spam never would have happened.

What do you mean???

Thank you and God bless you too. There is the link to Bitcoin Knots: https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/releases/tag/v29.1.knots20250903

Give it a try and let us know what you think.