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Nick Szabo·2026-03-04 23:56
RT hodlonaut (@hodlonaut)1/In 2025 Bitcoin Core removed a decade-old mempool policy default — a configurable limit on how much non-financial data nodes would relay. OP_RETURN was effectively uncapped.Not a consensus rule. A default setting. But defaults govern what most of the network does. Which governs what miners see. Which governs what gets mined.The justification: it wasn’t working anyway, data was getting in through a loophole.What wasn’t disclosed: that loophole had been deliberately kept open.Here’s ...