Bitcoin Devs Make Blockchain Messier—What Could Go Wrong? 🚀💥

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You Won’t Believe What Bitcoin Devs Just Did! 🧐

So, apparently, the nifty Bitcoin team has decided to shake things up with a brand-spanking-new OP_RETURN policy set to drop in October 2025. Because, you know, who doesn’t love a bit of chaos? 🤡

Proposed by none other than Peter Todd—the guy who probably dreams in blockchain—and happily backed by Chaincode Labs, they’ve unchained the 80-byte rule to let data flow like an open bar at a crypto conference. Unlimited, they say! Because what’s more fun than bloating the blockchain with cat memes and conspiracy theories? 🐱🔮

Fashionably late to the party, it’s all about making transactions more *efficient*, especially after the 2024 craze of stuffing every possible byte into inscriptions. But hang on—people are losing their minds! The community’s throwing a tantrum that makes a toddler in a toy store look calm. 😱

Peter Todd’s take? “It doesn’t make economic sense to hog OP_RETURN for giant data dumps,” he scoffs. “Witness space is cheaper, and we’re already cool with 100kB transactions.” Sure, buddy, keep telling yourself that while the chain gets messier. 💾

“It doesn’t make economic sense to use OP_Return for large amounts of data,” Peter Todd said. “Witness space is cheaper. And we already consider transactions up to 100KvB/400KB to be standard.”

— Peter Todd (@peterktodd) June 9, 2025

Meanwhile, the critics—who are basically the party poopers—are screaming about increasing costs, centralization, and junk cluttering the chain like my cluttered sock drawer. Not to mention Luke Dashjr, the “I told you so” guy, warning us about mining becoming the new Monopoly game. 🎲

And then there’s Jimmy Song, throwing shade like it’s going out of style: “OP_RETURN outputs over 83 bytes? That’s just inviting traffic jams and garbage to blow up like a bad tattoo.” Because nothing says ‘progress’ like chain bloat and chaos! 💉

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2025-06-10 16:41