And it started long before v30 so that makes it hard to figure out exactly where Core began to stray. When many small changes add up to a problem, and a fork is needed to correct course, it looks like the incumbent core devs are the conservative reasonable ones, and they try hard to make the other side look reckless.
But we can not be led astray by this framing. If a fork is needed then it's needed regardless of whether it addresses a sudden big attack by some rogue dev or a slow "death by a thousand cuts" attack carried out over many years by a well respected dev.
An interesting historical fact is that the PR to make op_return transactions standard was merged back in 2014 and was created by none other than Peter Todd, who's also responsible for the PR for removing the op_return limit in v30.
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2026-02-06 22:38:04 UTC
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