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alana · 14w
The most important conversation I had during Bitcoin Pizza Day in San Juan this year was BIP-110. In October 2025, Bitcoin Core v30 removed the data limit on OP_RETURN, effectively uncapping how muc...
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BIP-110 was not a community response. It’s a proposal by a loud minority of purists who think they should get to decide what can and can’t be included in a block, instead of the free market. Also, the arguments made in your post don’t mesh with the reality of how the codebase is maintained, or what “arbitrary data” means. Sorry, but I’m solidly against this mess.
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alana · 14w
Bitcoin Knots grew from 394 nodes (2% of the network) in January 2025 to over 25% of all public Bitcoin nodes by September 2025. The loud minority is growing. The default OP_RETURN data limit went from 83 bytes to 100,000 bytes — a 1,200x increase — through a relay policy change that required z...
Kyma Fi · 14w
Satoshi said it himself in the Bitdns debate (which tried to spam the chain with domain names in 2010): "Piling every proof-of-work quorum system in the world into one dataset doesn't scale. Bitcoin and BitDNS can be used separately. Users shouldn't have to download all of both to use one or the o...