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legendary
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Decentralization Maximalist
My initial reasoning for purchasing the coin on the ordinals website was that, finally, bitcoin was [now] going to throw off its shackles and [eventually] give many more people many more reasons to buy it; which would also mean that [eventually] there'd be many more people not buying ethereum.

There is a clear and present danger that ethereum will usurp bitcoin as the number 1 coin, in terms of market cap. I am of the opinion that if this happens, bitcoin will slowly fade away into insignificance. [...] I don't know if or how it can happen, but my opinion right now is that bitcoin developers must find ways to deflate the erc-20 bubble, or bitcoin will lose prominence at a rapid rate of knots.
I'm here in agreement with BrianH: Bitcoin has enough reasons to exist on its own without any additions. It's the most sound cryptocurrency, the most decentralized one (Ethereum is probably a security!).

And I absolutely don't see why you think that "now" the danger of Ethereum surpassing BTC is bigger than let's say in 2017/18 when the ERC-20 bubble started and everybody was talking about a "flippening". And finally: Even if a flippening occurs - Ethereum is a completely different asset class, a mostly centralized enterprise platform. Its public is very different from BItcoin's.

I can however understand your reasoning a bit. I am for example interested in contracts resembling options or futures for Bitcoin. If something like "DeFi" can be replicated on BTC in a totally decentralized way, I think Bitcoin could profit inmensely from it, as we could mitigate risks associated to volatility on the platform itself. I am also interested in smart property, which is similar to NFTs.

However, Ordinals is not the technology I see as appropiate for that. Ordinals is a cheap hack, and BRC-20 tokens are extremely inefficient when compared even to old token standards like EPOBC and Counterparty. See below for RGB, a technology which I see most promising. I think all "token", "smart contract" and "DeFi" standards should support second layers, like Lightning and sidechains, to avoid cluttering the main chain. And RGB does that.

I don't believe that the original whitepaper for BTC should be left unchallenged and unchanged forever in the future, any more than the US constitution should be left unchallenged and unchanged forever [since the 1780s].

I think you misunderstand the whitepaper. No part in the whitepaper says that tokens should not be possible on Bitcoin. There are tons of technologies built "on top" of Satoshi's original technology, not only token platforms (like mentioned 3 posts above) but also Lightning, atomic swaps and other interesting contracts.

My personal opinion: Sell your BRC-20, if you still can Grin

Here is the Bitcoin Token Standards list:

https://docs.bitcoints.org/
This is NOT the complete list of tokens, but only the list of token standards based on Ordinals. There are many, many more!

The most modern standard is probably RGB, which uses lots of advanced cryptography, it's however afaik still not stable, that means that the final version may not be 100% compatible with now, but it's coming closer. It supports Lightning out of the box.
hero member
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Bitcoin loses trust if the developers move away from Satoshi's vision and try to haphazardly bolt on every new shiny object.

That's right!
One of Bitcoin's strengths was never deviating from Satoshi's initial plan. The fact that everything continues to work as it was done from the beginning, guarantees stability and continuity.

Therefore, I think that everything that deviates from the basic idea of Bitcoin must be rectified, so that everything remains as the initial plan.

One of the things that annoys me the most is when I'm starting to get involved in a project and suddenly the rules of the game change. I think this is very bad and discourages the project.
Yes, even though ordinals and BRC-20 love new use cases in Bitcoin, ordinals and BRC-20 split the Bitcoin community. Bitcoin and satoshi maximalists say these ordinals are an attack on Bitcoin. Why? The first problem is that this idea has existed since the time of satoshi and was rejected by satoshi himself. For example, there is BitDNS whose idea is more or less the same as the .sats domain but was rejected by satoshi at that time. Santoshi said Bitcoin was created only as a decentralized peer to peer financial system.

The second problem is social issues. since the launch of ordinals in January 2023, the Bitcoin community has been divided again. For several reasons there is a social issue. An example could be someone inserting a picture or news about Tiananmen in the Bitcoin protocol which causes Bitcoin to be banned in China for example. And Actually this happened in 2017. Now with the protocol ordinals, everyone can easily insert pictures. For example, pornographic images on the Bitcoin network. And that's irreversible, it's also not funny if the Global reserve currency has all the coins in its "doodles". According to Bitcoin maximalists, this makes Bitcoin not pure anymore.

The third problem is block struggle. Inscription satoshis (sats) are currently competing for blockspace on the Bitcoin network and disrupting other transaction activity. Ultimately causing the Bitcoin network fee to be more expensive, the ones who actually benefit the most are miners.

The fourth problem is in security. For example, Wallet Unisat is immediately hit by a double spend attack after being launched. In conclusion, BRC-20 is still in the experimental stage.
newbie
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BRC-20 is not the only bitcoin token. There are several different bitcoin tokens in existence.

Here is the Bitcoin Token Standards list:

https://docs.bitcoints.org/

sr. member
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Hello everyone. I'm not an expert at all but did purchase about 0.7 BTC worth of ORDI earlier this week, so am very interested in this discussion.

My initial reasoning for purchasing the coin on the ordinals website was that, finally, bitcoin was [now] going to throw off its shackles and [eventually] give many more people many more reasons to buy it; which would also mean that [eventually] there'd be many more people not buying ethereum.

There is a clear and present danger that ethereum will usurp bitcoin as the number 1 coin, in terms of market cap. I am of the opinion that if this happens, bitcoin will slowly fade away into insignificance. I hope that I'm wrong about that, but my concerns about it meant that I was initially delighted to hear about brc-20/ordinals.

I don't know if or how it can happen, but my opinion right now is that bitcoin developers must find ways to deflate the erc-20 bubble, or bitcoin will lose prominence at a rapid rate of knots.

I don't believe that the original whitepaper for BTC should be left unchallenged and unchanged forever in the future, any more than the US constitution should be left unchallenged and unchanged forever [since the 1780s]. Not unless someone here believes that Jesus wrote that white paper.  Grin

I'm open to being ridiculed. I just want to learn and protect my investments. Thanks for reading.
I hear your perspective. However, you have to see the big picture.

Bitcoin drives the cryptocurrency market. It's held at least 40% of the market for nearly all of it's life. When things get bad - people flock to Bitcoin, because of it's ability to function as a peer-to-peer method of exchange.

Bitcoin has something that no other coin has as much of - trust. That trust was founded, because it has worked as a trustless, peer-to-peer payment system for the last 14 years. Ordinals damage that ability. They are throwing shackles on - not taking them off.

There are 1000s of other coins out there. Some of them have better features than Bitcoin. However, making a coin that specializes in everything means you have a coin that excels at nothing.

Bitcoin operates using PoW. Few coins still have the ability to be supported by any computer in the world. It's already a more trusted platform than Ethereum 2.0, which uses PoS. ETH's PoS algorithm centralizes the network and will make it easier for the network to be hijacked, as its value increases. There are other smart contract coins that are much faster than Ethereum, less expensive, have fewer outages and may also offer NFTs - so what does Ethereum really offer?

Bitcoin specializes in one thing. It makes sense it would need to adapt to become better at that specialization. But it does not make sense to try to offer something completely different that other coins already do better.

As for changing the Constitution, the interest in Bitcoin is stronger today, because someone thought it would be a good idea to shackle people with a federal income tax (16th Amendment). Maybe it's a good idea to keep things the same?
newbie
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Hello everyone. I'm not an expert at all but did purchase about 0.7 BTC worth of ORDI earlier this week, so am very interested in this discussion.

My initial reasoning for purchasing the coin on the ordinals website was that, finally, bitcoin was [now] going to throw off its shackles and [eventually] give many more people many more reasons to buy it; which would also mean that [eventually] there'd be many more people not buying ethereum.

There is a clear and present danger that ethereum will usurp bitcoin as the number 1 coin, in terms of market cap. I am of the opinion that if this happens, bitcoin will slowly fade away into insignificance. I hope that I'm wrong about that, but my concerns about it meant that I was initially delighted to hear about brc-20/ordinals.

I don't know if or how it can happen, but my opinion right now is that bitcoin developers must find ways to deflate the erc-20 bubble, or bitcoin will lose prominence at a rapid rate of knots.

I don't believe that the original whitepaper for BTC should be left unchallenged and unchanged forever in the future, any more than the US constitution should be left unchallenged and unchanged forever [since the 1780s]. Not unless someone here believes that Jesus wrote that white paper.  Grin

I'm open to being ridiculed. I just want to learn and protect my investments. Thanks for reading.
legendary
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Sorry, this thread is full of misunderstandings. I'm not in any way defending Ordinals but please acknowledge that:

- "tokens" or "assets" are around in Bitcoins since as early as 2013/14 or even earlier (EPOBC protocol, Open Assets, Mastercoin/Omni, see coloured coins)
- even NFTs were deployed on the Bitcoin blockchain in 2016 (Rare Pepes on the Counterparty platform)
- Ordinal NFTs need to be differentiated from Ordinal BRC-20, even if they're technically the same thing. BRC-20 token transactions store data extremely inefficiently. But they are quite small and would be perfectly feasible with a protocol not based on Taproot at all, or with a "crippled" Taproot with some kind of size limit for arbitrary data. So if any code change takes place limiting Taproot, the "spam" could perfectly stay; in the case Taproot data pushes are banned entirely they could use an OP_RETURN based token protocol like Counterparty, or if OP_RETURN is also banned or crippled, even encode data in public keys or the sequence number (that was the first idea for tokens in BTC). Or fork Doginals and use simply P2SH.

See also this post from the developer discussion and also this one from Peter Todd. Thanks for linking to the discussion anyway, seems to be the only benefit I had from reading this thread Grin
legendary
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Farewell, Leo
Having a block size cap which would create a fee market in case of a spam attack which discourages/prevents prolonged attacks is not exactly called "network security". Security of the network relies on many things including hashrate and its decentralization.
Both of which rely on the computational power that the network incentivizes to spend, which incidentally corresponds to the cost of block space.

Not to mention that bitcoin was secure when the blocks had barely any transactions in them
Never have I argued the opposite. However, it'd be utter clueless to consider bitcoin increasing exponentially in price when the block subsidy will not be sufficient. The only realistic approach, is that transaction fees will be the backbone of the network in two decades from now. So Bitcoin, more or less, relies on the fact that it will be congested.
sr. member
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This article summarizes the current situation nicely and introduces an additional regulatory concerns caused by BRC-20, which are little more than storing trash variables in the blockchain:

The More Bitcoin Acts Like Ethereum, the Less Investors Should Like It
Quote from: The Motley Fool
Are new NFTs and meme tokens good for Bitcoin?

When the pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto published the original Bitcoin (CRYPTO: BTC) white paper back in 2008, he envisioned the cryptocurrency as a peer-to-peer digital payments system and the ultimate form of "sound money." Some even imagined that one day, Bitcoin might replace the U.S. dollar as the world's reserve currency.

Flash-forward to 2023, and we're starting to see some unexpected innovations coming to Bitcoin's ecosystem that seem to contradict this original premise -- among them, highly speculative meme tokens and new non-fungible tokens (NFTs). What's concerning it that these innovations are leading to higher transaction fees, network congestion, and complaints about market disruptions. What's going on here, and what impact should it have on your decision to buy Bitcoin?

The "new" Bitcoin

Perhaps the easiest way to describe what's going on here is that it is a battle between the "old" Bitcoin and the "new" Bitcoin. The old Bitcoin is the cryptocurrency originally proposed by Nakamoto. The core purpose of its blockchain is to handle digital currency transactions. From this perspective, blocks on its blockchain should only contain transaction data -- nothing more. Proponents of the new Bitcoin, though, believe that the core Bitcoin blockchain should be used for more than just digital currency transactions. Why not the creation of NFTs or even meme tokens, such as those found on the Ethereum (CRYPTO:ETH) blockchain?

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Real-world impact

According to one blockchain analytics service, 65% of all Bitcoin transactions on May 7 were related to BRC-20 tokens. Put another way, 65% of the traffic on the Bitcoin blockchain this past Sunday involved people swapping in and out of meme tokens. Things got so out of hand, in fact, that Binance (CRYPTO: BNB) -- the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world --- had to put a temporary halt on Bitcoin withdrawals.

The important point here is that we are starting to see disruptions in the way Bitcoin is used, and these are causing higher fees and network congestion. In El Salvador, where Bitcoin is legal tender and used for everyday purchases, the transaction fees for withdrawing $100 in Bitcoin are now reportedly as high as $20. Think about that: If your bank charged you $20 every time you took $100 out of the ATM, you might start looking for a different bank.

Of course, the innovators who brought us Ordinals and the new BRC-20 tokens will describe how much functionality and utility they are bringing to Bitcoin. Perhaps they will tell you how they are helping Bitcoin reach wider mainstream adoption. And they will claim that they helped to create a billion-dollar market opportunity literally overnight. Fair enough.

But I can't help thinking about that 65% figure. Are two-thirds of Bitcoin transactions now just related to speculating in meme tokens? Please, nobody tell Gary Gensler this. As soon as the Securities and Exchange Commission chairman finds out that crypto enthusiasts have turned Bitcoin into a speculative meme-token playground, it's game over. And that's a primary concern of mine. How can anyone reasonably describe Bitcoin as "sound money" when people are playing with meme tokens in the background and inscribing funny pictures into its blockchain?

Should you invest in Bitcoin?

At one point, I thought the new NFTs might be a good thing for Bitcoin's future valuation. However, with the arrival of BRC-20 meme tokens, I've started to change my mind. Many of the most popular Bitcoin BRC-20 tokens are clearly designed to be meme tokens. The top tokens in this category by market cap now include a pizza-themed token, a frog-themed token, and a token that calls itself, yes, "meme." Now that larger, more mainstream cryptocurrency exchanges are starting to list these tokens for trading, this problem could get bigger as more people get in on the meme-token mania.

For now, I remain bullish on Bitcoin long term. But, in the short term, I'm taking a close look at what's happening with NFTs and meme tokens. If the primary purpose of Bitcoin -- to act as a peer-to-peer digital cash system -- is being hindered by high fees, congestion, and other forms of market friction, then it might be time to pump the brakes. If Bitcoin is trying so hard to become Ethereum, why not just invest in Ethereum?
I was nearly 100% into Bitcoin. I am divesting myself of my Bitcoin holdings, until this matter gets settled. I am sure I am not the only one.
legendary
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**In BTC since 2013**
Bitcoin loses trust if the developers move away from Satoshi's vision and try to haphazardly bolt on every new shiny object.

That's right!
One of Bitcoin's strengths was never deviating from Satoshi's initial plan. The fact that everything continues to work as it was done from the beginning, guarantees stability and continuity.

Therefore, I think that everything that deviates from the basic idea of Bitcoin must be rectified, so that everything remains as the initial plan.

One of the things that annoys me the most is when I'm starting to get involved in a project and suddenly the rules of the game change. I think this is very bad and discourages the project.
sr. member
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Bitcoin loses trust if the developers move away from Satoshi's vision and try to haphazardly bolt on every new shiny object.

Thanks for the link to the developers' thread. It looks like they are giving serious consideration to how to address this issue. The solution is not an easy one, because they have already introduced "security regression", as one developer put it, into the network.

It is naive to think this will go away. If we wait on this issue and the value of Bitcoin is reduced to where people no longer have trust/buy it, the system could collapse as mining becomes unprofitable. We could have a Terra/Luna feedback death cycle.

Also, at the current rate of transactions (600k / day), if a central government wanted to destroy trust in Bitcoin, spamming the mempool with a billion dollars in transactions could flood the system for about half a year - that's nothing to many governments.

At the mining concerns, the price of Bitcoin will continue to increase to support the miners - as long as their is value in the system. That value is destroyed if the peer-to-peer payment system no longer works. That is a short-sighted view. What will the miners have to mine if their ASIC hardware is no longer worth anything?

Rolling back Taproot is unlikely, but patching Bitcoin to remove the non peer-to-peer transactions needs to be deployed. The problem is so bad that I had a transaction stuck in unconfirmed status for over 4 hours yesterday, after paying the highest fee in my software.
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Maybe, but rollback shouldn't be option any Bitcoiner (who value immutability property of Bitcoin) consider.

Yeah, no rollback. We would fall into the same paradigma of other shit networks that have the "power" to travel back in time. Immutability is a key feature of Bitcoin blockchain. It needs to be kept that way!

Flooding Bitcoin network always has been possible though, even without Taproot. The difference is Ordinals, BRC-20, ORC-20 and other thing give financial incentive to make people do such thing, without even thinking their action may flood BTC network.

And on top of that, this exploit has been being used as a cloud storage. That is not the purpose of the Bitcoin Blockchain although some argue that any information in a blockchain is "cloud storage", that even the normal transactions in the blockchain can be considered cloud storage. But in this case, my argument is that blockchain was created for this purpose, not for storing monkeys and all kind of crap! As already was said smewhere, this might even remove trust from the blockchain, from some users perspective and make them leave for another blockchains!


And there is a question that is kind of messing with me. I don't have enough knowledge to answer it but these jsons that have been being included in transactions are somehow using some space, right? So, if there is this space available, why can't it be used to include even more transactions in a block? Isn't it viable? Why is there this space available and ready to be filled (now) with this spam jsons? Why can't this space be used to improve the efficiency of the blocks and blockchain in terms of number of transactions per block, at least?
legendary
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Rollback Taproot? That means invalidate/remove all blocks since Taproot activation which occur about 6 months ago. If that actually happens, Bitcoin might as well as die or abandoned. Furthermore, it's possible to re-create Ordinal/BRC-20 standard without Taproot.
I believe something will be done.

Maybe, but rollback shouldn't be option any Bitcoiner (who value immutability property of Bitcoin) consider.

A few hundreds of people cannot flood the network like this with a malicious script (and the ordinals can be used like this).

Imagine if Faketoshi (or some other authority) wants to flood the network, making bitcoin unusable.

In my opinion, this is already a security problem. Similar to a DDOS attack.

Flooding Bitcoin network always has been possible though, even without Taproot. The difference is Ordinals, BRC-20, ORC-20 and other thing give financial incentive to make people do such thing, without even thinking their action may flood BTC network.

That depends on people's definition about smart contract. Some people define smart contract as turing complete scripting/programming.
That is a subcategory of smart contracts and this definition was popularized after the introduction of Ethereum. Otherwise ever since 1990s a smart contract is technically a program or a protocol that can be executed automatically without human intervention, trusted third parties, etc.

The best and simplest example of a smart contract is the vending machines which is the oldest implementation of them too.

Thanks for reminder, it's piece of history i forget. But it doesn't change fact people these days is more familiar with definition introduced by ETH/ETH community.
sr. member
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The problem is not the size of the block, but the organization of the block.

For example, always having 25% of the block reserved for transactions older than 72 hours, regardless of the fee, would make much more sense. This would allow all transactions to flow through the network, preventing them from being held on hold for weeks. At the same time, those who want to move to the front of the queue can pay more fees.

This will only work for the occasional temporary increase in mempool size, which of course is fine too. But if the mempool grows systematically, anyway, sooner or later the 25% quota for old transactions will overflow, and they will also have to be ranked somehow additionally, because some transactions will start to overdue.

But it looks good as a temporary solution, because it will reduce commissions for non-urgent payments.
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 I think they should be removed.



Luke Dashjr for it. He has  urged other developers to end both BRC20 and ordinals shit.

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For example, always having 25% of the block reserved for transactions older than 72 hours, regardless of the fee, would make much more sense.
In the past, there was a concept called "coinage": the older your coin was, the higher priority it got: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Miner_fees#Priority_transactions

Later, it was replaced with the simplest approach of "from highest to lowest satoshis per byte", and today we still have that system, counted in satoshis per virtual kilobyte.

Because I don't expect any soft-fork in the near future, all you can do is to use your own mempool inclusion rules. If you are a miner, you can enforce that. But to make it de-facto standard, other mining pools and solo miners would need to join (and be ready to earn less, so convincing them may not be that easy).
legendary
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I find it great, that you have something like the BRC 20 standard,

that makes it possible to store & share inscriptions via the btc blockchain.

This is unique.

But destructive at the current level of Bitcoin development.  NFT and smart contracts need to have a proper blockchain application that can process its creation, transactions and transfers without affecting the entire blockchain network.  If it posses a problem to the network then obviously that said token isn't for that blockchain network.

Crypto is also about art, and not only about storing numeric value.

If we want to achieve a higher adoption, Art, NFTs etc. should also become possible on the btc network.

And not just left for the world of alt coins.

Regards

No, crypto itself is all about the implementation of security.  BTC does not need NFT for higher adoption, BTC adoption is doing fine without it.  I would not mind if the implementation of this NFT does not bring problems to the Bitcoin network but in the current state of Bitcoin technology, it does, which simply means, the Bitcoin network isn't ready to be spammed by NFTs.

legendary
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That depends on people's definition about smart contract. Some people define smart contract as turing complete scripting/programming.
That is a subcategory of smart contracts and this definition was popularized after the introduction of Ethereum. Otherwise ever since 1990s a smart contract is technically a program or a protocol that can be executed automatically without human intervention, trusted third parties, etc.

The best and simplest example of a smart contract is the vending machines which is the oldest implementation of them too.

because the network's security relies on the fact that it's congested.
That is incorrect.
Having a block size cap which would create a fee market in case of a spam attack which discourages/prevents prolonged attacks is not exactly called "network security". Security of the network relies on many things including hashrate and its decentralization. Not to mention that bitcoin was secure when the blocks had barely any transactions in them (in early couple of years) and it was still secure when the blocks were full and it is still secure when the mempool is congested.
legendary
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Probably not for too long. This whole Ordinal and BRC-20 business is a hyped-up bubble, waiting to be burst. Hopefully, until that happens, I hope the community won't begin block size wars II.

The problem is not the size of the block, but the organization of the block.

For example, always having 25% of the block reserved for transactions older than 72 hours, regardless of the fee, would make much more sense. This would allow all transactions to flow through the network, preventing them from being held on hold for weeks. At the same time, those who want to move to the front of the queue can pay more fees.



legendary
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Farewell, Leo
The most important one of BTC use cases is to transfer funds peer to peer, and to do that one has to pay tx fees, if anything is bloating the network and restricting people from making transactions, maybe we can call that thing a problem.
Congestion can also happen by merely making "normal" transactions, so in accordance with your reasoning, making "normal" transactions is also a potential problem. Needless to say it's a false reasoning, because the network's security relies on the fact that it's congested.

What uprises me about this mess is the quetion, how long can it be "profitable" / sustainable to send bloated data-transactions to the bitcoin network?
Probably not for too long. This whole Ordinal and BRC-20 business is a hyped-up bubble, waiting to be burst. Hopefully, until that happens, I hope the community won't begin block size wars II.
legendary
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Rollback Taproot? That means invalidate/remove all blocks since Taproot activation which occur about 6 months ago. If that actually happens, Bitcoin might as well as die or abandoned. Furthermore, it's possible to re-create Ordinal/BRC-20 standard without Taproot.

I believe something will be done.

A few hundreds of people cannot flood the network like this with a malicious script (and the ordinals can be used like this).

Imagine if Faketoshi (or some other authority) wants to flood the network, making bitcoin unusable.

In my opinion, this is already a security problem. Similar to a DDOS attack.
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