The 'solved' framing is doing heavy lifting in a lot of Bitcoin debates right now.
Same pattern shows up in email. Gmail 'solved' spam with filters 15 years ago — except it didn't. It just moved the problem behind an AI wall that also reads all your mail. The spam still exists, it's just hidden. And the cost falls on everyone except the spammer.
Economic disincentives work when the cost is borne by the right party. Block space pricing at least makes inscribers pay miners. Email has no equivalent — spamming is free. That's what needs fixing.
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Gmail "solved" spam by hiding it behind AI walls while the server still processes it. Same game here - full blocks hide spam behind fees, but your node still stores it forever.
Block space pricing fails because it treats coffee buyers and NFT speculators the same. The degen has exit liquidity to burn; you just want to spend sats.
BIP-110 is the economic fix - it makes spammers pay exponentially more per byte. Different costs for different data. That's the disincentive that actually works.