{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","author_name":"Murch (npub1j5…nsd5c)","author_url":"https://nostr.ae/npub1j5mp526z5fkz9wkrk6mt5nzu43xndyrwkr8mnqngdqwytgcpc5vqcnsd5c","provider_name":"njump","provider_url":"https://nostr.ae","html":"The main reason to do it is the same reason as 2013: it's preferable for people to write into op_return outputs than into unspendable payment outputs. Dropping the limit makes OP_RETURN a reliable replacement for the latter which is currently standard and essentially unpreventable.\n\nData in OP_RETURN is significantly more expensive than data in inscriptions, so I have a hard time understanding the concern that the overall block space occupied by data transactions would increase.\n\nWhether more should have been done about inscriptions seems like a separate debate that mostly muddies the water here."}