Adam Back calls for new Bitcoin rules to curb spam and inscriptions

Bitcoin’s network carries unnecessary spam that shifts economic incentives, commented Blockstream’s founder Adam Back on ￰0￱ called for new protocol rules to control the inscription industry, moving Bitcoin to its central ￰1￱ Back, the founder of Blockstream, spoke out against using the Bitcoin network to carry ￰2￱ called out against the “JPEG industry”, which produces fees for miners, but causes higher fee ￰3￱ spoke out after another social media war on the correct use of ￰4￱ also mentioned previous community wars on BTC block size, which led to multiple hard ￰5￱ time, Back took the side that spam has no place on the ￰6￱ is owned by humanity, the protocol developers are stewards, and need consensus from users to change it ￰7￱ is about money, spam has no place in the ￰8￱ defaults the bitcoin core project puts in the reference client matter in this. — Adam Back (@adam3us) September 5, 2025 Previously, the creation of NFTs and other inscriptions was seen as a solution to miner incentives, as network fees and block rewards fell.

Currently, not all blocks see problems with JPEG spam, but Back pointed out the creation of images could weigh on the network during busy days, depriving regular senders from their transaction ￰9￱ Back noted Ordinals kept expanding in the past months Back pointed out the BTC network carried over 88M image inscriptions in May, rising to over 100M in August, with up to 7,000 BTC in monthly fees or roughly $250M per ￰10￱ inflows are a small part of miner revenues, but the days of peak traffic push miners to invest even more in equipment, raising the costs for all participants. Usually, BTC blocks are around 85% full and offer reasonable pricing, but the presence of Ordinals also means unexpected congestion and higher fees. |) September 5, 2025 To date, the network has accrued over 97M inscriptions of various types, requiring a total of over $795M in fees over the ￰11￱ a slow period during the 2023-2024 bull market, Ordinals have returned and even accelerated new inscriptions in the past months, as shown by Dune ￰12￱ the past, Dasjr has spoken for the removal of ordinals.

Paradoxically, the recent discussion is only raising the mindshare of ordinals, making them more appealing for projects that go against the convictions of BTC ￰13￱ were seen as a fad, coinciding with the NFTs boom, but their presence has shown to be a lasting issue for BTC network security, block propagation, and concerns about ￰14￱ crypto news deserves attention - KEY Difference Wire puts you on 250+ top sites