Knots ‘warning’ escalates Bitcoin OP_RETURN war
The gloves are off in this year’s revival of Bitcoin’s 2010 OP_RETURN war. Weeks into a heated impasse, the leader of the progressive movement seeking to ease data storage limits on Bitcoin Core mempools has dispensed with intellectual arguments, and underhanded rhetoric masquerading as a security warning has gone viral. Antoine Poinsot of Chaincode Labs, the originator of pull request (PR) 32359 to increase OP_RETURN’s datacarrier limit from 83 to hundreds of thousands of bytes, blames his opponent as having “troubles with reality,” “intentionally misleading” with “lies,” and “actively making s*** up.” Chaincode and similarly-minded Brink developers think that Bitcoin’s most popular queue of transactions should relay large OP_RETURN outputs that contain data irrelevant to the movement of BTC. Meanwhile, conservatives find this accommodative policy preposterous, tantamount to a subversion of Bitcoin’s purpose by corporate interests. Luke Dashjr, a leading conservat...