If you thought Bitcoin was wild before, just wait till you hear this barn-burner: the boys (and a few ornery gals) in the Bitcoin Core team are yanking the OP_RETURN guardrails clean off in the next update. That’s right, more bytes for your mischief, because apparently, “it aligns with the bitcoin ethos.” If you’re wondering what that means—don’t look at me, I just work here. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Bitcoin Core: Throwing the Rulebook in the River and Grinning About It
The Bitcoin Core folks have finally done what every troublemaker in a Tom Sawyer story dreams of—they’ve taken something “controversial” and made it official. Lead developer Gregory Sanders, speaking for the entire tribe of code-wranglers, declared that the new software will, by default, gobble up and serve transactions with OP_RETURN outputs beyond 80 bytes—a fancy way of saying, “We don’t care how big your message is, just come on in!” And if you want to bring two or three? Heck, bring the whole barn party!
Sanders reckoned the old byte limit had outstayed its welcome, like a distant cousin who never learned about short goodbyes. It was, he said, “counterproductive, ineffective, and damaging”—which is about how I feel about New Year’s resolutions and low-fat bacon.
According to Bitcoin’s peanut gallery, clever folks have been side-stepping the rules using private mining accelerators, ignoring all common sense and these “guardrails” like a steamboat captain ignoring the riverbanks.
“Big-data inscriptions are happening anyway—and in all sorts of rude and unusual manners. The cap just pushes this circus into back alleys where it tends to break more things,” Sanders explained. And he would know; he’s the one holding the wrench!
So, the team figured: lift the darned cap, make the policy match reality, keep folks from doing sneaky workarounds, and—most importantly—stop the relay path from looking like an Appalachian pig trail after a rainstorm.
Meanwhile, the upstart Bitcoin Knots (yes, that’s its real name, and no, they don’t hand out ropes) is seeing a bump in popularity, rattling its way to 1,572 listening nodes. Still, the original Bitcoin Core clings to the throne with 20,193 big-ears-on-the-block, according to Coin Dance numbers. It’s almost enough to make you believe in democracy, except, you know… it’s Bitcoin.
Of course, not everyone’s handing out cigars and slaps on the back; the Core team admits the room wasn’t unanimous before popping the cork on this decision. If you’re sore about it, they suggest you go tinker with your own software—implying, perhaps, that if you want to build a fence around your bytes, the hammer’s in your hands. The debate, naturally, spiraled into wild accusations of backroom deals, secret handshakes, and the sacred question: “What is spam, anyway?” But worry not—if there ever was a right answer to that, Bitcoin would charge you three transaction fees to hear it.
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2025-05-08 15:05