KYC has literally nothing to do with my post…
And there is no use case for non monetary data on chain - except fiat profit at network security expense. Satoshi himself said so during the bitdns debate in 2010. When people were trying to put domain names on bitcoin for profit he pushed back:
“Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale.
Bitcoin and BitDNS (non monetary data) can be used separately. Users shouldn't have to download all of both to use one or the other. BitDNS users may not want to download everything the next several unrelated networks decide to pile in either.”
He wasn’t making rules for how bitcoin should be used or censoring domains on bitcoin… he was making the obvious observation that bloating the chain with data doesn’t scale and is a security risk.
The chain is now growing 2.2 gb a week while ssd prices skyrocket. Over half of that data are non monetary since Cores controversial update!
Just because you don’t know how to run a node, doesn’t mean you shouldn’t understand how this is inherently destructive to a decentralized network.
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I see your point and principally agree. But Bitcoin currently is built in a way that made room for other use cases and tokens. If this is not supposed to be, why wasn't that window closed forever? My point is that you can't blame people for doing what's possible to do and what they find useful, and then want to reign them in to your vision. May it be the intended one by the all-wise creator or not. It would be a huge pity if Bitcoin failed. But if we humans aren't ready for freedom, then we aren't ready. You can't fight for freedom with violence ... again and again.