Jimmy Song, a developer and defender of Bitcoin (BTC), criticized the decision of the developers of Bitcoin Core to remove the OP_return limit for the non -monetary data integrated on the Bitcoin blockchain in the next level of Bitcoin Core 30, the appellant “Fiat” mentality.
Song has accused the main developers of diverting the concerns of users concerning the removal of the OP_Tern limit, which is currently 80 bytes, and ignoring the significant decline in the Bitcoin community and node runners. He also said:
“The idea that spam is difficult to define, and because of this ambiguity, we should not make distinctions from the software, is an argument of time of Fiat policy where you pretend not to know the evidence, so that the real debate can never take off – the non -monetary uses of Bitcoin are therefore spam.
You can say if it is something desirable or not, but to say that you cannot define that it is a dropout tactic intended to avoid the real argument on the real impact – in particular, the long -term impact of this change, “continued Song.
The op_return debate has been raging for almost six months and recalls the wars of Bitcoin blocks that took place between 2015 and 2017, which finally led to a hard fork of the Bitcoin protocol which reproduced Bitcoin (BCH), leading some to the Bitcoin community to speculate if the OP_Return wars will lead to a similar split.
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The knot runners vote with their feet in the historical exodus at Bitcoin nodes
The Bitcoin Core Devs decision to unilaterally open the OP_return data limit has left the Bitcoin community divided and caused recording numbers for Bitcoin nodes to Bitcoin nodes, an alternative implementation of Bitcoin node software.
This increase in nodes performing Bitcoin nodes, which now represent around 20% of the network, against around 1% in 2024, represents an almost vertical jump in just nine months.
The nodes allows node runners to apply strict data size limits, what supporters support are necessary to preserve the decentralization of the Bitcoin protocol.
Bitcoin Ledger has generated around 680 data gigabytes since the creation of the decentralized protocol in 2009, thanks to the simple architecture of bitcoin and strict data limits.
The low Bitcoin data storage requirements allow anyone to execute a node on retail computer equipment for as little as $ 300, democratize access and ensure maximum decentralization.
For comparison, higher speed blockchain networks and intelligent contract platforms, which generate much more data, can cost tens of thousands of dollars to execute and require specialized commercial equipment, which means that only rich investors and large companies can execute nodes and apply the consensus rules of these protocols.
Robust material requirements result in increased centralization of a blockchain protocol and an increased risk that some nodes can bang to modify consensual rules or inverted transactions.
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