RT JJS (@JJS36038159)Agreed.It doesn’t fix the broadcast problem and mostly signals tolerance for non-monetary data, which weakens the monetary focus.So, you and Adam are considering the Type 3 “Prunable Lanes” approach, then.A system with an incentive signal that guides data into a format that can be pruned, combined with each node’s individual choice about what to store.Prunable lanes = an economic routing system.Pruning mechanism = a technical deletion method.Layer 0: Accept constraints.Individual nodes ...

RT JJS (@JJS36038159)Nick, there are THREE different concepts being conflated in this discussion.Let me distinguish them:TYPE 1: Standard Pruning (Already Exists)Deletes entire old blocks after validation. Keeps only recent blocks + UTXO set. Reduces storage from ~650GB to ~10GB.Limitation: Cannot bootstrap new nodes (missing historical blocks).Status: Built into Bitcoin Core since 2015TYPE 2: OP_RETURN-Specific Pruning (What Ghost Describes)Keeps block structure and transaction history, but removes only OP ...