A new default setting in the upcoming Bitcoin Core release, Bitcoin Core 30.0, has caused a rift through segments of the Bitcoin community. Some users have indicated they won’t upgrade to the new release of Bitcoin’s most-used client, or switched to running Bitcoin Knots: a software fork of Bitcoin Core maintained by OCEAN CTO Luke Dashjr, a vocal critic of the change.

The debate is quite technical, about a seemingly minor issue. Bitcoin Core 30.0 will start to relay transactions across the network with bigger OP_RETURN outputs: transactions that embed arbitrary data (like text or images) in a specific way. This appears to be a minor change because Bitcoin Core (and Bitcoin Knots)…

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