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 Fairness is a matter of opinion. The point I’m making is about Bitcoin’s purpose. Primarily it was invented to allow payments to be sent over the Internet without relying on a trusted intermediary, who might prevent the transaction for self-serving reasons. Thanks to Ordinals (and the blockchain design decisions that allowed them), Bitcoin is now impractical (or much less practical) for that purpose. I believed that mission was important, so I’m unhappy. Fortunately there are other blockchain-based cryptocurrencies, but it would have been nice if the original, most popular one had not lost its way.