Man, I am back and forth like whip lash on where I stand on this. Spam sucks, Core should be more thoughtful with communication, but I can’t decide if the filters make a lick of difference when they can go direct to miners to get in a block. Maybe there is a way to incentivize people to spam less? Like a social engineering angle?

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The crux of this is that Etherium gas-fees became too exorbitant to justify the overwhelming and various “wild west” of spamming, and therefore as Eth fell out of favor, the grifters moved to Bitcoin - spurred by an unrecognized opportunity in the Taproot upgrade. And now, because they drove fees high on the Bitcoin mainchain, they’ve recognized a change to leverage the core Bitcoin node software itself. It’s not about anything but letting Bitcoin be Bitccoin. It’s not about Bitcoin supporters doing anything. But it IS about not allowing the easy grifters to go unchallenged.