WHEN BITCOIN SAID: "NO SPAM ALLOWED" (2009 - 2021) BLOCKCHAIN SPACE IS SCARCE MAX SCRIPT SIZE: 10 KB LIMIT From launch until Taproot (2009-2021), Bitcoin treated data like poison: Blockspace = scarce. Big scripts? Blocked. Random files? Nope. Bitcoin was built for money. Not for memes, not for storage. Blockspace wasn’t cheap. That was the point.
likely @Zatoichi42 (assumed from source)
July 28, 2026