For anyone non-technical reading Calles note who believes bitcoin should only be money, run Knots or keep your Core node on an old version and don’t upgrade to v30 so your node won’t help turn the Bitcoin blockchain into generic data storage.
Then ask yourself why Calle and other technically knowledgeable people want to make it easier to store generic data on the blockchain. My assumption is that the risk of future filter policies (like in Knots) getting into the dominant Core nodes scares VCs away from funding startups that want to exploit nodes as free data storage because at any moment their hack could be filtered out forcing them to pay large miners to bypass the nodes.
For anyone technical, please look at the transaction filter code for knots linked below. There’s some “cat and mouse” aspects, but most code is going to work well for a long time and won’t need “daily updates”. Core could implement similar code to combat spam. The history is that Core redefined the data carrier definition to grandfather in ordinals spam and rejected Lukes PR that would have mitigated ordinals and other Taproot exploits that permit data storage. Now they want to open node policies up further to make generic data storage easier.
https://github.com/bitcoinknots/bitcoin/blob/29.x-knots/src/policy/policy.cpp
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2025-09-28 17:30:49 UTC
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