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Is Bitcoin Under Threat? The Battle Over Blockchain Limits

he Bitcoin developer community is in the midst of a dispute. The cause — Peter Todd’s proposal to remove restrictions that limit using Bitcoin’s blockchain to store arbitrary data (such as NFTs or images). Such data was once considered “spam” that disrupts network functionality.

Todd argues that the restrictions are ineffective: developers already bypass them via direct mempool submission or use alternative clients like Libre Relay. According to Antoine Poinsot of Chaincode Labs, the Citrea bridge and others are doing just that.

Not everyone agrees. Jason Hughes of Ocean Mining believes the change would harm Bitcoin: “It would turn Bitcoin into a useless altcoin.” He called for rejecting Bitcoin Core if the change is adopted and urged mining pools to speak out.

Udi Wertheimer from Taproot Wizards accused Ocean Mining of harassing developers on GitHub. He noted that contributors work out of passion or for low pay and do not deserve such pressure.

In response, Poinsot said: “Bitcoin will be fine. If it can be broken by a relay policy change for unconfirmed transactions, then it was never strong to begin with.”

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