LPS #17 Unhosted Marcellus #371, Greg Tonoski, Eduardo Prospero. Ordinals & Inscriptions Spam Attack

This is a Leo Perez Show Bitcoin Special. If Bitcoin is a part of your life is very likely that you may have heard about "BRC20 tokens", "Ordinals" and / or "Inscriptions". At the surface, the proponents of this develipment sell it as an expansion of Bitcoin's functionality but... Is this really desired? Is it harming the network? Does it goes against the purpose / telos of Bitcoin? Is this a Spam Attack purposefully made to distrupt the network? Are there bad actors stacked against bitcoin using useful idiots to further their anti-bitcoin Agenda? Is there anything that us "Bitcoin Plebs" can do? Can node runners and the community at large participate in the solution to mitigate this apparent attack?

In this Episode we explore answers to these questions thanks a panel of hosts that are well versed on these matters.

LP17 featuring ::

Unhosted Marcellus: a software developer, Bitcoin node runner and organizer of the monthly Barcelona Bitcoin Only meetup.

Since the inscription Denial of Service attack started in early 2023 he's been active on Twitter raising awareness on this issue, and helping other node runners to customize their nodes to run better spam filters.

Twitter - https://twitter.com/oomahq

Greg Tanoski: software developer / computers enthusiast. He discribes himself as a person who is "interested in Bitcoin, simple pleb learning along the journey. When it comes to spam in Bitcoin, I advocate for removal of mispricing introduced in 2017 - so-called Segwit discount (more details in my Github)".

Twitter - https://twitter.com/GregTonoski

About Eduardo Prospero - Venezuelan writer, MC, Multimedia artist and internet entrepreneur. An avid Bitcoiner and author of "La Tormenta" and "Eye in the Sky" out now in Konsensus Network.

Buy Amilcar's writings on 21 Futures - First-ever bitcoin fiction anthology, “21 Futures” + my story "Eye in The Sky" - https://bitcoinbook.shop/products/21-futures-tales-from-the-timechain?ref=prospero

Twitter - https://twitter.com/edprospero23

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Relevant links discussed in the episode:

Learn more information about spam counter-measures in Bitcoin. https://wtfhappenedinfeb2023.github.io/

https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/bug-spammers-get-bitcoin-blockspace-at-discounted-price-lets-fix-it/327/3

https://medium.com/segwit-co/why-a-discount-factor-of-4-why-not-2-or-8-bbcebe91721e

Big Blockers admitting their spam intentions - https://twitter.com/BitMan_PoW/status/1742858436872720580

Eric Wall admission to the intentions behind Ordinals - https://twitter.com/ercwl/status/1732182391559483603

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