I will not be running BIP-110 or a similar softfork. Such a fork solves nothing.
However, the behavior of Bitcoin Core is also harmful to Bitcoin.
The OP_RETURN change had no technical basis and had other problems:
- People will not pay 4x more to use OP_RETURN. The “cheaper at small sizes” argument was fixed by Taproot annex already.
- SegWit data can be fully pruned (or even not downloaded) while being able to verify supply. OP_RETURN can’t.
- Both SegWit and OP_RETURN do not inherently pollute the UTXO set. It is due to the specific implementation of Ordinals.
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npub122…cgrkj
2026-07-14 18:30:14 UTC
Author Public Key
npub12262qa4uhw7u8gdwlgmntqtv7aye8vdcmvszkqwgs0zchel6mz7s6cgrkjPublished at
2026-07-14 18:30:14 UTCEvent JSON
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