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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.