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you cannot stop the state from offering very high fee-rates to fill blocks with pointless transactions
Bitcoin's fixed supply does exactly that, its just over long time horizons. It would be unsustainable for them to do so since they can't print Bitcoin to do it with in perpetuity. Spammers must pay.
Yes, and it does it to everyone equally. Which means there are not cases where one part can do something to Bitcoin that others cannot.
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In a policy sense yes, arbitrary policy like happens in fiat does not effect the many since Bitcoin is the consensus average of it's users
It does however give monopolies on physical force new powers relative to others by decoupling security zones from monetary zones, tradeoffs.
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