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It has been since segwit, but the process of retrieving data and viewing it from segwit is much more complicated.

Retrieving from op_return is easy, so easy that a court will likely deem that the node runner is storing illegal content, because their computer will almost certainly contain the tools that can be used to view the content.
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nout 2mo ago

Retrieving content from segwit vs op_return is literally the same complex bash one liner. No practical difference (definitely not from court perspective)

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Shortfiat 2mo ago

I defer to Nick Szabo on that one. A computer scientist with a law degreee.

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nout 2mo ago

Hello Mr Judge, which one of these two is highly illegal and which one is cool?

Getting image data from op_return:

bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 4719e7252f4bdefd9f7bdf5058f17af28729b79c303b067eb01c107e57235754 1 | jq -r '.vout[0].scriptPubKey.asm | sub("^OP_RETURN "; "")' | xxd -p -r | tail -c +25 | base64 -d >image.jpg

Getting image data from witness:

bitcoin-cli getrawtransaction 584b6d204fcf6e2a3dd82a9adc55890447a09b534ab7d725a7353aecf547bcbf 1 | jq '.vin[0].txinwitness[1][122:40430] | gsub("4d0802";"")' | xxd -r -p > image.webp