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Knots ‘warning’ escalates Bitcoin OP_RETURN war

The debate between conservatives and progressives in Bitcoin’s OP_RETURN data storage war is becoming emotional.

Bitcoiners post your mom as OP_RETURN spam

Users are spray painting graffiti text messages onto Bitcoin’s blockchain as a way to downplay the OP_RETURN war and spam.

Knots, an alternative client for Bitcoin full nodes, has grown in popularity as Core developers appease corporate interests in OP_RETURN.

Samson Mow has accused someone of paying a senior Bitcoin developer to push through a controversial change to Bitcoin Core’s OP_RETURN.

Bitcoin developers’ war over the data storage limits of OP_RETURN was about UTXO bloat and harm reduction, according to one side.