Bitcoin developer Erik Aronesty initiated a discussion on the Bitcoin development mailing list titled "As a developer, should you reject non-standard Taproot transactions from full nodes?" and stated that "worthless tokens are threatening the smooth and normal use of the Bitcoin network as a peer-to-peer digital currency. Miners are largely the faulty entities that allow the system to be abused in this way. The harmony of Bitcoin transactions is now being destroyed. Action should be taken, such as in the form of BIPs and/or submissions to the Bitcoin Core code base to reduce the vulnerabilities in BIP 342 (which defines the validation rules for Taproot scripts), or to enforce this "review" at the node level and introduce a runtime option to immediately reject all non-standard Taproot transactions."
In response, Bitcoin Core developer Michael Folkson said that his proposed solution would not work and should not prevent new use cases. Erik Aronesty responded: "It may be easier to reject any transaction with a fee higher than the sum of the outputs."
