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"content": "There's been lots of debate about Core v30 removing the OP_RETURN size/count policy defaults, so I ran the numbers for the latest mempool research report: https://research.mempool.space/opreturn-report/\n\nThere were three big waves of OP_RETURN usage: 2019, 2024, 2025. Nearly all standard transactions. The nonstandard ones are so rare you can hardly see them on the chart.\n\n https://blossom.primal.net/e653b32fb6281c2c8f61252dbd72d1b3c2c66e57059573a06eb72d5d66812da0.png \n\nThe 2019 Veriblock wave actually put more data on-chain than anything since. People talk about recent OP_RETURN usage like it's unprecedented, but surprisingly it isn't.\n\n https://blossom.primal.net/a21d64ede3043825d6df2f08c7c5c6109904b6f5d5b07514488c3e69ce4f405a.png \n\nThe important thing is that the spikes in nonstandard OP_RETURNs were in Mar 2024, May 2025, Aug 2025. All before v30 shipped in November 2025. The rate hasn't gone up since. At all. In fact it's come down\n\n https://blossom.primal.net/085a690b1081921e41b84e7c2749adc66eb3ad578f4e44e8bd8135551a7384d8.png \n\nRunes transactions were standard under the old rules and would even still be standard for #BIP110 (the proposal that's supposedly aims to curb data embedding). If these guys are serious about stopping data they should block runes.\n https://blossom.primal.net/7634c6534ecbdc21a9e51468daa12ab9c989985b33a232b8e7035f22bfaff58e.png \n\nTL;DR: v30 recognised what was already occasionally happening on-chain. Nonstandard OP_RETURNs are vanishingly rare, haven't increased post-v30, and the current wave is already cooling off. The data doesn't support the panic.\n\nRead the full report linked below 👇\nhttps://research.mempool.space/opreturn-report/",
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