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Podcast: CoinDesk Podcast Network
Episode: BITCOIN SEASON 2: Filters Are Futile
Description: We’re explaining why trying to filter Bitcoin is a fool’s errand.
We dive into the “filter debate,” dissecting why some Bitcoin purists are demanding JPEG‑free blocks and why their efforts are futile, but harmful to the bitcoin network. Fee economics, block‑size limits, real‑world examples, and the clash between censorship resistance and arbitrary data.
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Notes:
Block size capped ~4 MB (~250 GB/yr)
$600 M+ spent on ordinal fees
Knots rose from 5 % to 18 %
30/25 000 nodes filtered in early test
100 % fi...