🚨 Bitcoin Core 30.0 has arrived: OP_RETURN now supports up to 4MB. Revolution or threat? 💣
The new version of Bitcoin Core has been released and brought the largest expansion of OP_RETURN in history.
📌 From 80 bytes → up to 4 MB per transaction 😱
📌 Multiple OP_RETURN fields are now allowed
📌 577 improvements in the code (faster IBD, CMake, Stratum v2 and more)
🔍 But why does this matter?
OP_RETURN allows the insertion of arbitrary data into the Bitcoin blockchain. Now, with much more space available, the network can be used for things beyond financial transactions — such as NFTs, messages, files, and even ordinals.
🎯 For some, it is the future of programmability in Bitcoin.
⚠️ For others, it is congestion disguised as “innovation.”
🔧 Other important changes:
🛠️ Limit of 2,500 signature operations per tx (protection against DoS)
💸 Minimum fees adjusted (block minting fee now at 0.001 sat/vB)
⚙️ IBD 20% faster + wallet migrated 100% to descriptor wallets
🧠 Question for the community:
Is this change a step towards a more versatile Bitcoin?
Or are we playing with fire and compromising the original mission of $BTC ?
💬 Comment below your technical or philosophical view.
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