Bitcoin update to raise data limit on divisive OP_RETURN function
Bitcoin Core dev Gloria Zhao says the data limit for OP_RETURN will be raised in October, infuriating several Bitcoin users who prefer images, text and audio to stay off the blockchain.
An upcoming Bitcoin software update will increase the data limit on a divisive function that will allow significantly more images, text and documents to be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, a developer says.
The Bitcoin Core 30 update slated for Oct. 30 will remove the 80-byte limit on the controversial OP_RETURN function and allow each output to carry up to 4 megabytes of data, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao posted to GitHub on Monday.
It comes three days after 31 Bitcoin Core devs signed a statement supporting the change, known as merged pull request (MPR) #32406. The Bitcoin devs indicated on May 5 that the data limit would be removed.
OP_RETURN enabled the Ordinals craze last year, allowing Bitcoin users to post everything on the blockchain from non-fungible token-like collections to the Afghan war logs published by WikiLeaks in 2010.
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