In a December 6 article, William Casarin, founder of Nostr Damus and developer of Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network, claims that writing data as data from a Bitcoin script program is a technical feat, and emphasizes that Bitcoin is not designed to data storage.
Showing solidarity with the Bitcoin developer Lucas DashjrFrom the perspective that the signups are a mistake, Casarin highlights the broader implications of this issue, linking it to the overall health and decentralization of the Bitcoin network.
Data and preferential treatment
As part of the statement titled “Why Inscriptions are an Exploit,” Casarin notes that the intriguing aspect lies in people assigning value to images on the Bitcoin blockchain, with non-ideological miners and those indifferent to health and Bitcoin decentralization that easily pay listing fees.
Through his analysis, he concludes that data should not receive preferential treatment; Users must pay full price, using protocols such as op_return and hashes for legitimate data storage in Bitcoin. Casarin also states that his position is that the current scenario represents a significant data spam exploitation, which requires proactive solutions from Bitcoin developers. He praises ideological developers like Dashjr for prioritizing the health and decentralization of the network, and in his remarks he calls signups a bug that makes it possible for users to spam the blockchain.
His response garnered comments from the community, with one user stating: “The writing transaction is the right to freedom of expression, who are you to classify something as spam or useless information?” and another user shared: “I think you should probably start preparing to get over it.”
A previous increase in enrollment
Bitcoin inscriptions have been in the news throughout 2023, with growing interest in ordinals.
Dune blockchain data from July 8 indicated that cryptocurrency enthusiasts minted a record 350,000 Bitcoin ordinal inscriptions, marking the highest daily count since May 14, in which Ethereum co-founder called it the reason behind the “renewed construction culture.”
