What I'm realizing is that those JPGs and crap are expressions of individuals and companies who have their own goals. And they are entitled to do that. But in the end what we can ALL agree is that money is not spam. Money is a tool to fight information overload, hence we gotta keep Bitcoin focused on being money... we don't want it to become a decentralized database of various types of information.

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ESE 7 months ago
A knot a day keeps the spammer away
This is very basic in the design world, the FLEXIBILITY vs SPECIFICITY principle. The more flexible something is, the less specific it can be by definition and vice versa. We want Bitcoin to be the OPTIMAL money, therefor it can't try to do anything else as all of its design's encountered trade-offs need to favor the aspect of money for it to be THE best money.
This is very basic in the design world, the FLEXIBILITY vs SPECIFICITY principle. The more flexible something is, the less specific it can be by definition and vice versa. We want Bitcoin to be the OPTIMAL money, therefor it can't try to do anything else as all of its design's encountered trade-offs need to favor the aspect of money for it to be THE best money. nevent1qqsqnddnftmful89j0g03j9l4jvlxc7y8p42f5vdrvml6cne4yeg7fcprdmhxue69uhkvet9v3ejumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmzv4h8xv2qgae
To be a database, it needs to store a specific type of data. That’s why businesses don’t just have a database for all the business data. There’s a database of customer contacts, a database of business transactions, and so on. Most business also enforce IT and data management policies which prevent people from putting unrelated or irrelevant data into the various databases. If you allow any type of data to go into a database, it just becomes data storage, which is far less useful. So Bitcoin is a database… Of monetary data. It’s the difference between an Amazon warehouse and a hoarder’s storage space.
Thanks Uncle. You’re a real rockstar. nevent1qqsqnddnftmful89j0g03j9l4jvlxc7y8p42f5vdrvml6cne4yeg7fcprdmhxue69uhkvet9v3ejumn0wd68ytnzv9hxgtmzv4h8xv2qgae