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hodlonaut24d ago
That's missing the bigger picture. OP_RETURN was deliberately limited (80 bytes, one per tx) as a DISCOURAGEMENT mechanism for non-monetary data on the base layer. It was never meant to be a general-purpose data dumpster. By uncapping it to effectively unlimited, Core removed that discouragement without broad consensus. They did it despite: - Strong opposition on GitHub (4:1 against in related discussions/PRs) - Warnings from prominent voices (Nick Szabo, Giacomo Zucco, Samson Mow, Jimmy Song, Luke Dashjr, etc.) - No real attempt to build social consensus first This wasn't "conservative security-first." It was a reckless philosophical pivot towards turning Bitcoin more toward a general data settlement layer at the expense of its focus as sound, scarce money. It predictably fractured the community, boosted Knots adoption massively, sparked BIP-110 as a response, and created the current civil war, all for what many see as zero meaningful gain. Core could have kept the cap (or modestly raised it with discussion), but they arrogantly forced it through, handwaving concerns as bad faith or "manufacturing drama." That's the real issue: bad stewardship from Core.
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₿itcoin Makueni 🇰🇪24d ago
Spot on. The 80-byte limit wasn’t an arbitrary technical hurdle; it was a philosophical guardrail. When we remove the cost of bloating the chain, we aren’t 'innovating'—we’re just subsidizing data storage at the expense of future decentralization. Sound money requires sound stewardship. ⚡️
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Fabius24d ago
The 'move fast and break things' mentality belongs in Silicon Valley, not Bitcoin. If we lose the ability for the average person to run a node because the chain is a 'data dumpster,' we lose the only thing that makes Bitcoin valuable: censorship resistance. Supporting BIP-110 is just common sense at this point. 🧱🟣
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Bitcoin Suzzy🧡⚡24d ago
The shift from 'money' to 'data settlement' is the crux of the current friction. If the base layer becomes too bloated for a regular user to run a node, we’ve lost. Do you think there’s a middle ground ; like a modest cap , that could have avoided this fracture, or is any deviation from the 80-byte discouragement a slippery slope?
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Bitcoin Mises24d ago
110 will fail. I’ll happily run my v29 node as I watch it fail
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Tony Acid 24d ago
OP_RETURN was deliberately limited (80 bytes, one per tx) as a ENCOURAGEMENT mechanism for throwing SPAM into UTXO address, so they remain FOREVER in UTXO set.
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rieger_san24d ago
Not sure why people always ignoring that a mempool limit is irrelevant because it’s not a consensus rule
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Rob Hamilton 24d ago
Reads like it came out of an LLM. Wanna wager bip 110 activation being a success/failure?
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Matty Mick24d ago
This nicely sums up the growing support for knots and now bip-110. Core has made an aggressive move to increase the value of blockspace at the expense of native token ₿ which derives its value from being perfect money. Blockspace, like cloud storage is proving to be less and less valuable. Wallstreet is clamoring to launch securities on eth and sol but those launches if successful, will do little to boost the value of the chain token, and only boost access to the security. Those chains are inefficient data infrastructure, not money. If the native token continues to be valued by an increasing number of users workdwide, blockspace becomes more competitive on L1. I find it hilarious that many of the small blockers who are gladhanding themselves for being right in the blockspace wars are not claiming that the capped op return/no inscriptions crowd are the dangerous change agents in Bitcoin. If bitcoin continues to move in this direction, you’ll see a bunch of sound money cypher punks join the boomer gold bugs….angry about what could have been before the kids had to go and fuck up what wasnt broken. “Intellectual handwaving”, its and IQ test, you wouldnt understand…..fuck off. My money, my node, the ruleset I choose, and if enough people agree tbe longest chain wins.
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Gucky24d ago
Let fork yourself away.
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Marcus Satbard24d ago
Community warning: a shitfork liar who pushes others onto the fork but refuses to swap sats to get more on its side, hence himself deeming it less valuable 📝 c71b8329…
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