I can see inscriptions are causing a lot of debate in the Bitcoin community, particularly regarding whether they should be "filtered" or "censored" at the mempool level by labeling them non-standard.
I'm here to tell you that this moral/ethical tennis match is irrelevant. Inscriptions can be pushed to the blockchain invisibly, by disguising the data inside normal-looking transactions. The true plaintext data is revealed only after the inscription is mined. I call these, "Inviscriptions", and they cannot be censored without resorting to flimsy heuristics.
All this is to say that node operators unfortunately cannot decide whether or not to play host to inscription transactions in their node's mempool, because it's impossible to know for sure which transactions are for payment and which are for inscribing arbitrary bytes into Bitcoin's blockchain forever. So what should we do instead?
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