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TheGrinder | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 A currency isn't a digital photo album and currency is the only utility Bitcoin needs.
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mattybs | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 But it's programmable, so people gonna program.
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TheGrinder | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Ordinals are an exploit and should be treated as such.
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El presidente Eloy Musketti | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How 'xactly?
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TheGrinder | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 by exploiting Bitcoin's Segwit and Taproot upgrades in unintended ways. Bitcoin's "utility" is currency and it has performed that "feature" as intended for 14 years. If we want a digital photo album with timestamps we can create a chain for such purpose.
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El presidente Eloy Musketti | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 What about op_return? And encoding as sha256?
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El presidente Eloy Musketti | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Not that i think it's good idea but in the long run they WILL run out of funds. So...
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mattybs | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Sure, but it's happening and will continue to happen because it's permissionless. If not this it would be something else.
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Jameson Lopp | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 Folks have whined about Bitcoin not being a proper currency since inception.
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TheGrinder | 10 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 Some. For others it has been their currency "by choice" for many years. Point is that the only "utility" Bitcoin needs is settlement of payments and it has been doing that quite well for the last 15 years. Speculators and, as I like to call them, 2nd generation Bitcoiners may have other expectations from a currency.