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 I HATE ORDINALS BUT I DON’T LIKE BEING TOLD, HOW I CAN USE BITCOIN. 
 People can choose to do what they want, but they can't choose the effects of policies. Immutable storage use case works against the sound money use case. Former drives up resource usage making running nodes more costly, reducing node distribution: prices out small utxos rendering them less valuable or valueless. 
 BITCOIN HAS A BRILLIANT SPAM MECHANISM: TRANSACTION FEES. 
 
 Sound money is an infinitely more important use case, so btc should optimize for that, which means minimizing the immutable storage use case. 
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 If the were to patch the unintended code that allows ordinals, would that be censorship? 
 UX specialists may be partially responsible for the dumbing down of the computer users over time. 
 Perhaps, then, a well designed UX can teach good things instead. 
 Bitcoin: A global, neutral money that promises to reign in governments and prevent wars 

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 Optimizing the money use over the storage case sounds extremely important to me. 
 The OP_RETURN discussion is not new and dates back to 2014 when Bitcoin Core 0.9.0 was released w... 
 It's a bug workaround, not censorship. 
 "IT IS FILTERING NOT CENSORSHIP"

Y'ALL GETTING YOUR DOUBLE SPEAK STYLE TALKING POINTS FROM THE U... 
 I oppose all censorship, but ordinals are exploiting a bug. They would not normally be there.  So, if they fix the bug, is that censorship? 
 MINING POOLS THAT CENSOR BITCOIN TRANSACTIONS ARE AN ATTACK ON BITCOIN. ANY SELF RESPECTING MINER... 
 If ordinals are utilizing a bug, the not including them is more like aworkaround than censorship.