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In retrospect, it was obvious the letter they signed was justification to merge a clearly controversial PR. It's not obvious what the second and third order effects will be, but I guarantee this will not play out the way that the signers of the letter think it will.

Happy to eat my words and say that I was wrong if a year from now if there isn't a significant growth (>100%) in large OP_RETURN outputs (>160 bytes).

I challenge any signer of the letter to provide a similar metric to measure whether what they're doing works and under what conditions they'd be willing to admit they were wrong.
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Deleted Account · 63w
Growth in OP_RETURN usage doesn’t prove your point at all, Jimmy. You should want more usage of OP_RETURN instead of the witness data or bare multisig outputs. It’s simply less harmful.
Peter Todd · 63w
Other than people making large OP_Returns because there is a controversy around them – e.g. to ironically publish quotes – there are hardly any in the chain. We're hoping they increase in number, with people using them instead of unprintable outputs.
nostrich · 63w
I hope there will be more (prunable) op returns in a year and fewer fake signatures. Is that not what you would hope?