BTC Filters Are Futile

September 6, 2025

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 % filtered nodes still ineffective

Fee market drives transaction inclusion

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