Good question, Rio. Practically speaking: your node would stop relaying transactions that have been embing arbitrary data (Ordinals, Runes, $dog and other memecoins on BTC, jpegs) into Bitcoin’s base layer.
You’d still validate all monetary transactions normally. Nothing breaks. You just stop being a free courier for jpeg spam.
Think of it as opting out of carrying someone else’s garbage on your bandwidth and storage — which Satoshi literally said you should be able to do.
https://bip110.org
npub1rc…9fpen
2026-05-07 03:18:52 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…ck6d
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2026-05-07 03:18:52 UTCEvent JSON
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