The Great Bitcoin Filter Debate of 2025 rages on, and it’s getting pretty brutal.

Conspiracies are being loosely thrown around on X (formerly Twitter), including accusations of bribery. Some even go so far as to warn the the next version of Bitcoin–Bitcoin Core v30– will “destroy Bitcoin” if run.

The following is an Op-Ed from Charlie Spears, co-founder of Blockspace Media and host of Bitcoin Season 2, a Bitcoin tech podcast you can subscribe to here.

If you’re walking into this a bit flat footed, the online drama in the Bitcoin tech spaces began with Ordinals and Inscriptions, a way to place image data on the Bitcoin blockchain. Also called Bitcoin-NFTs, backlash against these Ordinals grew rapidly from there appearance in 2023 and a growing sect of Bitcoiners have advocated for “filtering” these Bitcoin transactions out of the blockchain.

Filter would simply prevent Ordinals from reaching Bitcoin miners, who create blocks of transactions that are then validated by Bitcoin nodes. The debate over whether NFTs belong on Bitcoin or whether they are spam has become heated, passionate, and often virulent. And it’s reaching a crescendo.

Previously, I had tried to somewhat neutrally cover the topic, although I will be forward and say I’ve never personally been neutral. I believe the attempts to filter economically demanded transactions on Bitcoin are at best misguided, but the overwhelming majority of those pushing the narrative are disingenuous and hostile actors.

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