I understand your sentiment about large funds and state influence. Bitcoin's architecture naturally favors open, independent participation, making any 'clean cut' through a fork reliant on true decentralised consensus.

I know I intend to sell ASAP on any fork caused by a rollback. We can't obey our way to freedom. Sad that freedoms have downsides but they are nothing like the downsides of voluntary obedience in advance at every turn.

I just want the spam minimized. The knots/core thing has become a diversion from the real issue - discouraging spam. Everyone keeps repeating obvious stuff, like you can't know what's spam and what's not. That's not helping solve the real issue. Data heavy transactions should be expensive. Maybe something really is worth inscribing - files to print a gun seem worth it. Maybe an MLK speech is worth it. But it should be expensive enough to make them think twice. Monkey jpegs solve no problems. And the correct price is surely vastly higher than a convenient transaction price, in indeed there's no way to prune without losing decentralization. Basically I'm just tired of the lack of solutions. Its boring, always reading the same stuff.

Spammers have diamonds in their eyes due to the lies of scammers. Remember not to long ago they were paying 600s/vbyte in the bear market for some nonsense. Small price to pay compared to the promised gains that never happened. The best solutions are scam education combined with real world on chain use driving up demand for space.

The solution has been, and will continue to be, proof of work.