The proposed change has nothing to do with consensus, e.g. what constitutes a valid bitcoin transaction isn’t changing. It’s just a question of by default what transactions do nodes choose to relay. If they don’t relay all valid transactions it creates a centralizing pressure to use outside of the mempool services such as MARA’s slipstream to get transactions into blocks.
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I understand censorship resistance and I understand decentralization and I’d rather have no op codes than op_cat
I don’t see any question here regarding Op Cat. The question was about op return.
I know but you’re being socially engineered into op cat sorry to break it to you
We’re not filtering anything. Everything is backward compatible. The black size wars are over and the real question is about arbitrary data on the blockchain
Validating nodes can only handle so much load