Subject: Re: [bitcoin-dev] [Mempool spam] Should we as developers reject non-standard Taproot transactions from full nodes?

From: Tom Harding <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 9 May 2023 14:06:00 -0700

On 5/9/23 09:32, Erik Aronesty via bitcoin-dev wrote:

> obviously it's easy enough to evade if every non-economic user simply  > keeps enough bitcoin around and sends it back to himself > > so 
maybeit's a useless idea? but maybe that's enough of a hassle to stop > 
people (it certainly breaks ordinals, since it can never be 1 sat)

Padding the change is not just a hassle, it requires holding extra BTC 
in a hot wallet, which has a cost.

Spenders could also get around the rule by paying miners off-network, 
but having to do so would be an appropriate penalty for broadcasting a 
non-economic transaction.