According to BlockBeats, on May 6th, Bitcoin Core developers decided to remove the limits on transaction data in the next network upgrade to more effectively include more data. Bitcoin developer Greg Sanders announced on GitHub on May 5th that the next version of Bitcoin Core will, by default, relay and mine OP_RETURN outputs exceeding 80 bytes and allow an arbitrary number of outputs.
Critics point out that the proposal has not gone through an appropriate consensus process. Ten31 Fund managing partner Marty Bent stated that there is currently no consensus on the OP_RETURN issue. OP_RETURN became popular during the Bitcoin ordinal craze in early 2024, allowing transaction outputs to store small amounts of data on the blockchain.
