melvincarvalho on Nostr: Stating the obvious. Bitcoin is a financial network, not a general-purpose data ...
Stating the obvious. Bitcoin is a financial network, not a general-purpose data store. Storing large files like images directly on-chain is inefficient and a form of spam. A better pattern is to store a small pointer on-chain (e.g., CID) and host the file off-chain ... via IPFS, torrents, Blossom, or other distributed systems. Using block space responsibly helps preserve Bitcoin's long-term utility. Storing large files directly should be discouraged.
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2025-05-13 07:21:34 GMTEvent JSON
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"content": "Stating the obvious. Bitcoin is a financial network, not a general-purpose data store. Storing large files like images directly on-chain is inefficient and a form of spam. A better pattern is to store a small pointer on-chain (e.g., CID) and host the file off-chain ... via IPFS, torrents, Blossom, or other distributed systems. Using block space responsibly helps preserve Bitcoin's long-term utility. Storing large files directly should be discouraged.\n\n\nhttps://media.ditto.pub/c72dc9fe2c1d2e8facbd6dec84191827f4d57f7cc5cf0e56350b83cf6bce4302.png",
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