00:00Bitcoin are a network built on trusts, on rules, on incentives.
00:03But even in this system, small decisions ripple far and wide.
00:06Recently, a subtle change was made to how Bitcoin decides which transactions to pass along and which ones to ignore.
00:12A tiny number of just a few satoshis per byte was lowered.
00:15You might ask, why does this matter?
00:17Every transaction on Bitcoin carries data.
00:20Some movecoins, others simply leave the markup message, a proof, a signature of existence.
00:25The ESOP return transactions are like whispers in the ledger, small but meaningful.
00:29By lowering the fee required to share them, more whispers can now be heard.
00:33For artists, for archivists, for people embedding truths into the blockchain, the door opens a little wider.
00:38But every door has two sides.
00:40While the whispers are welcome, so too are the echoes of spam.
00:43Cheap, meaning this noise could now find its way into the network, testing its resilience.
00:47It's a delicate balance.
00:49The change doesn't break Bitcoin, it doesn't alter the rules, but it nudges the system to favor openness, accessibility, and expression,
00:55while trusting the community to keep it clean.
00:56In the world of Bitcoin, even the smallest numbers can shape the story and the voices that are to be heard.
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