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[bitcoin-dev] Ordinal Inscription Size Limits

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  • Jan 27, 2023
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Andrew Poelstra
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n Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 09:44:10AM -0300, Robert Dickinson via bitcoin-dev wrote: > I'm curious what opinions exist and what actions might be taken by core > developers regarding sto... Show More

n Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 09:44:10AM -0300, Robert Dickinson via bitcoin-dev wrote:
> I'm curious what opinions exist and what actions might be taken by core
> developers regarding storing unlimited amounts of NFT (or other?) content
> as witness data (https://docs.ordinals.com/inscriptions.html). The ordinal
> scheme is elegant and genius IMHO, but when I think about the future disk
> use of all unpruned nodes, I question whether unlimited storage is wise to
> allow for such use cases. Wouldn't it be better to find a way to impose a
> size limit similar to OP_RETURN for such inscriptions?

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Jameson Lopp @lopp · Jan 31, 2023
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On why banning arbitrary data is a rabbit hole you don't want to go down. Excellent objective analysis by Andrew Poelstra.
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