As I understand it, protecting against this is exactly the reason why a
blocksize limit exists. Perhaps it should never have been increased in the
first place.
Given the current concerns with blockchain size increases due to
inscriptions, and now that the lightning network is starting to gain more
After looking into this more deeply (thanks to Luke Dashjr for pointing me
in the right direction) it is now clear to me that storage isn't the real
issue, but rather the "initial blockchain sync" time - in which storage
certainly has a significant role to play, at least currently.
At the moment,
> If the rate of growth of the blockchain is too high, Ordinals aren't the
> cause, it's rather that the theoretical limit of the amount of storage
that
> can be added per block isn't sufficiently limited. (Whether they are used
> to produce Ordinals or something else)
True, the real question is
