The conflict surrounding the possible removal of the OP_RETURN spam guardrail in Bitcoin still rages on, with institutions pointing their fingers at Bitcoin Core developers for their behavior on the subject.
Bitcoin Mechanic, part of Ocean Mining, a mining pool company that has advocated to keep so-called “spam” out of the bitcoin blockchain, called out Bitcoin Core developers for colluding with Citrea to lift the limits on including this kind of content.
He stated:
Citrea *need* your mempool to tolerate their junk, and Core are determined to help them with that by forcibly removing one of your spam filters.
Furthermore, he stressed that the changes proposed were needed “to increase the financial viability of Citrea’s product,” indicating that these costs would “be shifted from them to people trying to make financial transactions using bitcoin.”
Casa founder Jameson Lopp, an investor in Citrea, refuted this notion, clarifying that Citrea did not leverage OP_RETURN for its normal operations. In a separate post, Lopp stated that “Citrea’s bridge does not need larger OP_RETURNs to operate.” “In fact, it doesn’t even use OP_RETURNs for its regular operations,” he noted.
Citrea’s use of OP_RETURN is limited to fraud challenges, which Lopp noted “will likely never even occur due to the slashing disincentives.”
Lopp has proposed to fight spam by increasing bitcoin adoption, promoting self-custody tools, and making actors pay more for using the bitcoin blockspace.
Read more: Casa Co-Founder Jameson Lopp Offers Solution for Bitcoin ‘Spam:’ Increasing Adoption
Amid this debate, which some consider inconsequential, the number of bitcoin nodes using Knots, an alternative bitcoin core client that allows configuring spam prevention options, increased 49% in April. Nonetheless, even with this increase, Bitcoin Core remains the most used bitcoin implementation, reaching 20,213 nodes, representing 94.78% of the total reachable nodes in the network.
Read more: Spam Fight Heats Up: Bitcoin Knots Node Count Rises 49% in April
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