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Bitcoin Core
Bitcoin Developers Plan OP_RETURN Limit Removal in Next Release
Bitcoin Core’s decision to lift its long-standing 80-byte OP_RETURN limit has reignited tensions within the network’s developer and node-running communities.
Bitcoin Debate on Looser Data Limits Brings to Mind the Divisive Ordinals Controversy
Removing the blockchain's OP_RETURN size controls would allow more data to be embedded in transactions. Critics say this will only be used for spam.
‘Just Don’t Break’ Bitcoin: Devs Debate Tech Upgrades to Top Crypto
The bitcoiners gathered at OP_Next were decidedly in favor of progress – but not too much progress, and certainly not too fast.
Will Bitcoin’s New BIP Editors Streamline Development?
Five new editors were added to help speed up the process of approving and merging Bitcoin Improvement Proposals.
Satoshi-Era Bitcoin Function 'OP_CAT' Dusted Off as Development Fervor Grows
Developers Ethan Heilman and Armin Sabouri view OP_CAT as a simple opcode that offers some of the general purpose functionality currently missing in Bitcoin
Steward of Bitcoin Software Explains Why She Nixed an Acrimonious Code Debate
"All it was doing was generating noise," the Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow says of Luke Dashjr's pull request, which would have severely curtailed the use of Ordinals inscriptions, sometimes known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."
Bitcoin Developer's Proposal to Stop 'Spam' NFTs Gets Shut Down
Luke Dashjr's technical proposal sounded innocuous enough: to make the popular Bitcoin Core software "effective with newer datacarrying styles." In reality, the effort represented a sophisticated but controversial plan to block the suddenly popular "inscriptions" known as "NFTs on Bitcoin."
VanEck to Donate 5% of BTC ETF Profits to Bitcoin Core Developers
The company last year made a similar pledge to Ethereum developers with respect to its ether futures ETF.
Bitcoin Core's 'v26.0' Upgrade Aims to Impede Eavesdropping, Tampering
The v26.0 upgrade contains experimental support for the v2 transport protocol as defined by Bitcoin Improvement Proposal 324 (BIP324).
Disappearance of $900K Puts Focus on Vintage Bitcoin Project Libbitcoin
The issue, dubbed “Milk Sad,” was discovered in late July by information security firm Distrust.
