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0 sats \ 2 replies \ @Murch 15h \ parent \ on: Quick questions about OP_RETURN? Quick answers here. bitcoin
The OP_RETURN output type was introduced as a harm reduction to divert users from storing data in unspendable bare multisig outputs that would stay in the UTXO set forever. Bitcoin Core has limited standard transactions to one OP_RETURN output of at most 80 bytes data payload for many years. When people started putting inscriptions into witness stacks, some people argued that such inputs should be "filtered" in a similar manner.
"Fix the filters" is a demand that Bitcoin Core developers amend mempool policy to limit or forbid all data carrying transactions.
I'll add that I verified off-band with someone notable that represents the "Fix the Filters" cause.
The gist I gathered for Fix the Filters:
Adjust relay/mempool policies on nodes to hinder spam on the blockchain without removing existing, functioning filters.