📉 Discussion in the cryptocurrency world: Bitcoin Core and Lightning Network developer William Casarin emphasizes that Bitcoin is not designed for data storage and argues that writing data as Bitcoin script program data is a technical vulnerability.

• Casarin highlights general implications regarding Bitcoin network health and decentralization.

• Stating that data should not receive preferential treatment, Casarin states that users should pay the total price using op_return and hashes for legitimate data storage in Bitcoin.

• Casarin states that the current situation is a significant data spam vulnerability and requires proactive solutions from Bitcoin developers.