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Nick Szaboยท2025-10-21 06:45
RT Jason Hughes (@wk057)Inscriptions exploit stashes spam data as "code". Bitcoin sees it as code, as a script. It being used for non-code is not intended by the network. Hence an exploit. To Bitcoin it's not image data, it's not anything but a script.OP_RETURN is specifically intended for arbitrary data. It's intended to be treated by Bitcoin as arbitrary data. It is intended for non-Bitcoin arbitrary data.The 80 byte cap limited it's usage to metadata and small cryptographic data.Specifically allowing lar ...