Bitcoin Core to unilaterally remove controversial OP-Return limit

Bitcoin Core developers have decided to remove a limit on transaction data in the next network upgrade, enabling more data to be included in a more efficient way.  “Bitcoin Core’s next release will, by default, relay and mine transactions whose OP_RETURN outputs exceed 80 bytes and allow any number of these outputs,” read the announcement on GitHub by Bitcoin developer Greg Sanders on May 5.  The long-standing limit was originally a “gentle signal that block space should be used sparingly for non-payment proof of publication data,” has outlived its utility, he added.  The proposal (PR 32359) was created by Bitcoin pioneer Peter Todd at the request of Chaincode Labs source: https://cointelegraph.com/news/bitcoin-core-unilaterally-remove-controversial-op-return-limit?utm_source=rss_feed&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=rss_partner_inbound