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Nick Hansen (Luxor) on Ordinals, Blockspace, and Mining Pools (EP.407)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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Is the Bitcoin State Indefinitely Persistent?

I don't think there's any way to get rid of data that's added today because you would change the chain would change. What could be removed is the ability to add new inscriptions in the future, which then I think also makes these inscriptions worth even more. So instead of paying $100 to inscribe something, you paid 25 or 25 is far more compelling than 100. If it becomes say 10 billion, running a full node will become a much different task than today.

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