db:threat/fee-displacement
Threat
Spam pushes fees past what you can afford to pay.
Fee Displacement
Arbitrary-data protocols exploit the SegWit witness discount and Taproot's relaxed script limits to flood Bitcoin with non-financial transactions, inflating fees and squeezing out monetary use.
The full threat page — recommended controls, incident references, and citations — lands when Defending Bitcoin ships on June 15, 2026.