BIP merge for Pull Request #32406 on Bitcoin Core have been merged...

How about that!

This war was over rather quick, surprised? I am not... Follow the money, tons to be made in DeFi... yeah in Bitcoin Blockchain...

Set for release in October 2025

Why make this change?

The idea is to make Bitcoin Core’s rules less restrictive.

By loosening the rules, Bitcoin Core hopes to:

1. Make it easier for everyone to use OP_RETURN for legitimate purposes (like DeFi protocols or other apps that need to store data on-chain).

2. Improve fairness in mining, since miners will see these transactions in their mempools (the pool of pending transactions) rather than through backchannels.

3. Speed up block validation and propagation, as nodes will already have these transactions in their mempools, making it easier to verify new blocks.

Why is it controversial again?

Not everyone agrees with this change. Some folks worry it could lead to more "spam" transactions—people stuffing the blockchain with unnecessary data, which could clog the network or make it more expensive to run a node.

The debate has been heated, with some community members and developers opposing the merge, saying it goes against community sentiment or could hurt Bitcoin’s goal of staying decentralized.

What’s the impact?

In summary, the merge makes Bitcoin Core more flexible about how much data you can attach to transactions, bigger smart contracts like in Ethereum... oh well...

Check out the discussion on GitHub: