Lately, there’s been a push in Bitcoin Core to expand the use of OP_RETURN. Let’s be honest: this is nothing but an open door for abuse. OP_RETURN was never meant to turn Bitcoin into a data dump, but that’s exactly what’s happening.

We now see the blockchain getting clogged with absolute garbage: BRC-20 tokens pretending to be something serious, Ordinals and Inscriptions jamming blocks with JPEGs, videos, and so-called NFTs, plus random metadata and contracts that have nothing to do with Bitcoin. Instead of a monetary network, people are trying to turn Bitcoin into a hard drive for memes. That’s not innovation — that’s parasitism.

And the costs are paid by real Bitcoin users. Higher fees, bloated blocks, slower scalability, and a heavier chain to maintain — all because some want to treat the most important monetary network in the world like a playground for experiments. This is not what Bitcoin was created for.

My stance is crystal clear: Bitcoin is for Bitcoin. Period. It is money. It is sound, censorship-resistant, decentralized money. Not an NFT warehouse. Not a token casino. Not a playground for altcoiners who couldn’t build their own chain. If you want to mint tokens, host pictures, or gamble with experimental protocols — go build your own network. Stop hijacking Bitcoin.

That’s why I reject this direction in Bitcoin Core and why I stand with Bitcoin Knots. Knots stays closer to Bitcoin’s true purpose and refuses to compromise with noise and nonsense. If you care about Bitcoin’s longevity, security, and mission, you protect it from abuse — you don’t enable it.

Bitcoin must remain pure. Bitcoin must remain money. Bitcoin must remain Bitcoin.

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