Currently they are shoving stuff into witness data which is discounted block space
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And they would still have that option even with OP_RETURN, wouldn’t they?
Which is why the conversation needs to be developed in full- unfortunately this is coming out in broken bits- but a few days ago others and I were discussing that you cannot discuss op return without discussing witness data
I don’t support the PR as is, but I also don’t support people pretending to be virtuous when clearly they are the ones benefitting from things as is in a spammy way
We have a few things that need to be figured out before this conversation needed to be had… specifically hardware constraints
Nodes can only handle so much load
Hence why I have openly advocated and supported the work projects like libbitcoin focus on
We have bigger problems than an op_return limit