A push to limit nonfinancial data on Bitcoin reversed course after the failure of the BIP-110 soft fork, with supporters of unrestricted blockspace use pointing to block 962266 as evidence that the network should stay neutral if users pay for resources through fees. Ripple CTO Emeritus David Schwartz argued that in public blockchains, other people’s views of whether transactions are worthwhile are irrelevant, adding that resource-usage objections only hold until users pay comparable market rates for comparable resources. In that framing, Bitcoin’s fee market becomes the mechanism that allocates scarce blockspace rather than social judgments about which transactions belong on-chain. The episode highlights a recurring tension in crypto networks between open access and efforts to discourage uses some participants regard as spam, including NFT inscriptions and custom scripts.