There’s currently a malincentive for some class of users to bloat the UTXO set by embedding data in fake pubkeys. This could over time make it unnecessarily costly to run nodes, harming decentralization and thereby potentially Bitcoin itself.
Increasing the OP_RETURN relay limit takes away this malincentive.
You’re welcome :)
Aaron van Wirdum
npub1ar…pm0w5
2025-10-10 08:53:52 UTC
in reply to nevent1q…w72r
Author Public Key
npub1art8cs66ffvnqns5zs5qa9fwlctmusj5lj38j94lv0ulw0j54wjqhpm0w5Published at
2025-10-10 08:53:52 UTCEvent JSON
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