Edgaras on Nostr: Including non-monetary data in Bitcoin’s blockchain is a serious mistake, and ...

Including non-monetary data in Bitcoin’s blockchain is a serious mistake, and Bitcoin Core enabling it only makes it worse. Using the world’s most secure and most expensive monetary ledger to store JPEGs or memecoin code wastes a genuinely scarce resource. This becomes obvious the moment you run a node under real memory or storage constraints. Left unchecked, non-financial data inflates blocks, adds CPU overhead, and bloats the chain that every node has to carry.
I originally compiled it using Bitcoin Core version on OpenBSD, but now switched to Knots and re-downloading full chain to take a philosophical stance.
#openBSD #Knots #BitcoinNode