What is the origin story for op returns? I wasn’t around in 2014 what was the benefit of implementing it in the first place?
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original purpose: to enable provably unspendable outputs while also offering a standardised way to embed small amounts of data on-chain without bloating the UTXO set.
Here is a good balanced info on OP_RETURN