Oddbean

I reserve the right to be wrong but I hear the same people who decried ordinals as stupid and wrong now crying because some have opted to not include or process ordinals. We understand that this does not stop ordinal overall, but prevents these people from interacting with ordinal. Isn't this the core tenant in bitcoin and freedom thinking, that one interact with those who they see as bringing value and not with those who do not bring value? If in the end enough people see a value in ordinals they will interact and include them and if noone finds value they will be forgotten and ignored. This could extend to the future to any sort of transaction. This is an opportunity. If a group or pool decides to not include any given transaction, it falls to someone who does see a value to pick up the slack. I see no problem with this. In theory one could choose to include only those they chose to whitefish and the blockchain may splinter. Those making the decision should do so in an informed way, being aware they would lose and descendent/dependent trancactions that follow, essentially stranding those utxo's . Then as before, the chain found to be most value will be adopted and the lesser chain languishes. Bitcoin is for enemies, we don't have to agree with anyone,but by the same token, we can choose to make an informed decision to not support them.