Ossification of Bitcoin Block Space

There is no sensible way to prevent people from storing arbitrary data and witnesses without incentivizing even worse behavior. If we were to ban quote unquote useless data, then it would be easy for would be data stores to instead embed their data inside quote unquote useful data. There's a reasonable argument that this sort of data is toxic to the network since even though market is willing to bear the price of scarce block space. But from a technical point of view, I don't see any principled way to stop this. And again, I think you- I spent with Andrew. Yeah, I mean, yeah, I think people are going to be able to do this. We have to live with

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