The OP_RETURN increase is not just a technical tweak; it signals values. When certain participants interpret that as inviting non-financial, potentially illegal data into a permanent ledger, they see a risk not just to efficiency but to network survivability in hostile legal environments. This runs parallel to broader governance questions about whether developers and companies steering Bitcoin should be viewed as purely technical actors or as political agents whose worldviews inevitably influence priorities..
The OP_RETURN increase is not just a technical tweak; it signals values. When certain participants interpret that as inviting non-financial, potentially illegal data into a permanent ledger, they see a risk not just to efficiency but to network survivability in hostile legal environments. This runs parallel to broader governance questions about whether developers and companies steering Bitcoin should be viewed as purely technical actors or as political agents whose worldviews inevitably influence priorities..