There is friction in Bitcoin's tectonic plates, and an earthquake is coming

Bitcoin Core is accommodating the demands of users and miners for OP_RETURN. Meanwhile, critics interpret this as an attack on Bitcoin. The debate over the purpose of Bitcoin has escalated and evolved into a direct war where even new institutional players will influence the outcome. As reported by CriptoNoticias, about thirty developers of Bitcoin Core, the main Bitcoin node client, issued a statement regarding the transaction relay policies of the software.

In it, they attributed to network users absolute freedom to implement whatever protocol usage policies they wish, even if these deviate from Bitcoin's original purpose: to be a decentralized money system.