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@ halalmoney
2025-05-02 13:52:26
Miners have a choice as to which implementation of Bitcoin they will run. Core, the most pervasive, wants to make changes so that miners who choose them will profit from the non-transactional use-cases of block space. Knots will allow miners the config option to exclude this kind of data from their mempools, but they still have no power to stop others from mining blocks with this data.
Ordinals, Runes and other large data files, are not stored in op_return outputs, but in taproot witness scripts. Even with the propsed change, if their data exceeds 143 bytes, op_return doesn't seem to be a viable option for them. Relaxing op_return limits should incentivize small data storage use-cases, such as Citrea's, to take up fewer UTXOs in block space and curb the amount of unprunable data that node runners need to download and store on their machines.
https://stacker.news/items/969274/r/halalmoney