dpc on Nostr: One thing that we could do with Ordinals bloat, is to just to hardcode their list in ...
One thing that we could do with Ordinals bloat, is to just to hardcode their list in the source code and not store them at all (possibly in some light-prunning mode).
This is not a HF, not even a SF. It's a simple optimization, not unlike pruning. And segwit witness discount was justified by the ability of (some) nodes to discard witness data. Purely an internal and later on p2p protocol change and an optimization. They are just an easy to identify bloat that could be very easily skipped for a speedup and less resource use. Older clients (or "full archival" node) could still store them, but most of the network don't need them for anything.
That should also put some breaks on the ordinal users who think they are really storing something in there.
This is not a HF, not even a SF. It's a simple optimization, not unlike pruning. And segwit witness discount was justified by the ability of (some) nodes to discard witness data. Purely an internal and later on p2p protocol change and an optimization. They are just an easy to identify bloat that could be very easily skipped for a speedup and less resource use. Older clients (or "full archival" node) could still store them, but most of the network don't need them for anything.
That should also put some breaks on the ordinal users who think they are really storing something in there.