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the fee they include doesn't really matter does it? it doesn't go to the noderunner in either case.
To what end? What does it achieve to broadcast a valid bitcoin transaction that you intend not to get confirmed? Even if it's some kind of encoded image, who is scanning their mempool to look at such images? I don't understand how the broadcaster of such a transaction benefits in any way. If the goal is to attack: it's an attack a noderunner won't even notice unless they are actively looking for it.
I've been running an always-on node for years. I'm sure in that time there have been many transactions that showed up in my mempool and disappeared without getting mined. I don't really care though, because I have a limit on the total size of my mempool (so my node can't be DOS'd). But mostly I don't know because it's not like I'm sitting here analyzing the contents of my mempool. Node software itself doesn't even let you see much beyond the raw transaction data. Not like it comes with an image decoder...
The argument that people are using the Bitcoin transaction relay network to proliferate vile images is weird to me. I don't see it as any kind of serious threat to bitcoiners and I certainly don't see that we should be designing Bitcoin in reaction to it. Do we even have any evidence that it is happening?
So, I'm not claiming it's a threat to bitcoin or that we should design bitcoin around it. I realize there are people taking those positions, though.
When you ask "to what end?", isn't it the same as whyever people broadcast this stuff over any other network. As to who is scanning for it, the answer would presumably be whoever is seeking to use the network for this purpose.
There are lots of people who consume and share child pornography already. I don't understand why they wouldn't use our network to freely broadcast it, if that's an option. Supposedly, that's exactly what happened to BSV when they increased the amount of arbitrary data that could be included.
I can't at all speak to the technical difficulties or ease of actually viewing such data as an image.
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