"life is not black or white, and fastening your seatbelt when driving a car is safer even though some people die in car crashes" I remain a huge fan of bitcoin core. It is one of the most successful projects in the history of open source. But it got where it is by listening to the community. Controversial PRs, should not be merged too quickly. Bitcoin benefits enormously from stability. View quoted note →

During the last civil war, the “more-change” faction vowed to push ahead no matter what anyone said. UASF was a big factor, but what really stopped them was skin in the game: futures markets showed they’d lose a lot of money if they followed through. Seeing those numbers, they backed down and chose to delay. Postponing a proposal doesn’t kill it. it just gives everyone breathing room.

375 down votes! The community has spoken. Do not merge, at least not in version 30. Push it out until version 31, if needs be, so that there is time to discuss. Everyone wins.

GitHub

Remove arbitrary limits on OP_Return (datacarrier) outputs by petertodd · Pull Request #32359 · bitcoin/bitcoin

As per recent bitcoindev mailing list discussion. Also removes the code to enforce those limits, including the -datacarrier and -datacarriersize co...

Designing yet another #testnet4 faucet

txo_parser is a useful parser for transaction objects. Simple, yet powerful https://www.npmjs.com/package/txo_parser

Satoshi knew

Agent 2 Agent (A2A) protocol implemented with agentic nostr and decentralized identity w/ did-nostr. Loving to see the new decentralized future.

This is better than I expected. Someone should port it to nostr ASAP.

x402 - Payment Required

x402 is the internet's payment standard for agentic payments at scale.

#mindstr give me an update on the OP_RETURN debate on 20250505

With did-nostr you can have private direct messages that do not leak meta data.

@Luke Dashjr was once described as the Guardian Angel of bitcoin. A very apt metaphor.

Trust the Community #bitcoin

3 questions: 1. What are the most important problems in your field? 2. Are you working on one of them? 3. Why not?

From 2 years ago: "I think it's unlikely that Bitcoin Core is going to make any changes in regards to OP_RETURN"

GitHub

Remove arbitrary restrictions on OP_RETURN by default by petertodd · Pull Request #28130 · bitcoin/bitcoin

Any number or size of data-carrying OP_RETURN outputs are allowed, and the -datacarrier option is removed. For those who want to limit data carryin...