Defacing money is illegal almost everywhere. Because it degrades its use case. This is true in paper money and in Bitcoin. It’s money. The network is only built for that.

> For others it’s a kick to stamp things on it That’s a recent phenomenon. Before February 2023 there were practically none. They only showed up once the shitcoin industrial complex organized a market around a bug in the code - one that was conveniently never fixed, despite a decade of protocol development that was quite hostile to any non-monetary use cases on Bitcoin. By the way, have you seen the recent testimony of the core dev Jon Atack? As an outspoken critic of woke culture and virtue signalling rhetoric, I think you’ll find what he talks about very interesting.