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Three sneaky changes in Bitcoin Core v30 are confusing node operators

Bitcoin Core v30 will dramatically raise the mempool storage allowance of nodes for arbitrary data unrelated to the on-chain movement of BTC.

Bitcoin devs warn of fork risk to miners as fees crash

Bitcoin mining pool operators achieved a dramatic reduction in minimum fees yet inadvertently shot themselves in the foot.

The percent of BTC miner revenue from fees has hit its lowest rate since 2022 and is suffering from a 90% reduction in fee minimums.

Bitcoin Core developers have been working on patching a pesky bug affecting full node software operators called the disk fill attack.

Demand for Bitcoin blockspace is so low that some node operators want to reduce transaction fee minimums from about $0.18 to less than $0.01.