Bitcoin News
By Evie Vavasseur
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Ordinals Leader Threatens Fork Over Policy Changes. Leonidas, host of The Ordinal Show and a key organizer in the Ordinals ecosystem, issued a warning…
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Core Policy Changes and the Mempool Debate. The dispute centers on Bitcoin Core v30, scheduled for October, and its policy changes regarding…
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Bitcoin Core Developers Defend Policy Adjustments. Core developers, including Pieter Wuille, Gloria Zhao, and Greg Sanders, emphasized that…
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Knots Implementation and Relay-Policy Alternatives. Luke Dashjr, maintainer of the Knots Bitcoin implementation, supports stricter default policies…
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Ordinals Leader Emphasizes Economic Impact. Leonidas highlighted that over twenty Bitcoin startups operating economically relevant nodes would…
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Governance and Community Implications. The dispute underscores ongoing tensions in Bitcoin governance between developers, node operators,…
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Conclusion. The Bitcoin Core relay-policy debate illustrates the complexity of managing a decentralized…
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The ongoing debate over Bitcoin Core’s transaction relay policy has intensified after a prominent figure in the Bitcoin Ordinals ecosystem suggested a full-scale fork could occur…
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He further indicated that the “DOG Army” would fund an open-source fork of Bitcoin Core that removes most policy rules, ensuring thousands of nodes would maintain it to preserve…
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Leonidas argued that the Ordinals economy contributes significantly to the network, estimating more than $500 million in transaction fees to date.
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Removing the 80-byte OP_RETURN cap and instead allowing block-size-limited payloads.
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Relaying transactions with multiple OP_RETURN outputs by default.
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These changes relate to mempool relay policy, not consensus rules, and aim to improve fee estimation, reduce reliance on alternative transaction submission methods, and better…
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Critics argue that normalizing non-financial data in blocks could undermine the economic focus of Bitcoin, while proponents say the adjustments reflect real-world transaction…
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Core developers, including Pieter Wuille, Gloria Zhao, and Greg Sanders, emphasized that transaction relay policy should support efficiency and reliability in validating and…
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