No. Not even close. If you don’t want to store, you prune. The reason you _want_ to relay spam is to make it impossible for the largest miners to offer a separate transaction processing system where spammers pay extra to make the biggest miners more profitable to process their garbage…free relay allows small miners to remain competitive (big miners could mine at a loss on bitcoin network transactions if spam payments on their private transaction submission networks are large enough).
You have to come to grips with the fact that we, as a humanity, haven’t found a way to make a meaningful dent in spam. And blowing open op return is very much like opening a window to prevent the thief from breaking it…knowing that the thief can’t be stopped.
Social signaling that we don’t like spam is a good thing.
drgo / Quantoshi.xyz
npub1fa…nthnd
2026-07-16 12:41:34 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…w3gv
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npub1fa8c9prxnrlkdtjl48adfsxyaduz8tas075l2n4f6903y9awjmxqanthndPublished at
2026-07-16 12:41:34 UTCEvent JSON
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