Proposal Overview - A new Bitcoin Improvement Proposal (BIP), "The Cat: Non-monetary UTXO Cleanup," has been drafted [1] - The proposal addresses the issue of non-monetary UTXO spam prevention and cleanup [1] - It is designed as a soft fork [1] Call for Review - The author is seeking serious and critical review of the BIP draft before further discussion [1]

Technical Discussion - The discussion revolves around a soft fork and its simplicity, emphasizing the importance of working on additional clients [1] - The preferred limit is 83 bytes, which has been the mempool policy level for a long time [1] - The primary goal is to make legible content more difficult, and any increase in bytes makes it easier [1]

Inscription Management - Suggests reducing the maximum transaction size via a soft fork to curb large inscriptions [1] - This approach offers benefits for block building and mempool policy [1] - It effectively bans large inscriptions, preventing even miners from including them [1]

Developer Disagreement - F2Pool 联合创始人 Chun Wang 表示 BIP-444 是一个坏主意，不支持任何软分叉操作，无论临时还是永久 [1] - Chun Wang 对“一些开发者在错误的方向上越走越远”表示遗憾 [1] - 旨在通过临时软分叉来抑制比特币网络垃圾信息的提案引发了开发者之间的激烈争论 [1]

RT Colby Serpa (@colbyserpa)@3ricMills @mattkratter @NickSzabo4 Literally was in a X spaces this morning listening to an altcoin team talk about their future ZK bridges to BTC and how they need a soft fork to do it… they are talking as if it’s already in motion / inevitable.At minimum there is some coordination going on to encourage this… ...

NEW - 'Hourglass' Explained: The Quantum Soft Fork to Save Satoshi's Bitcoins 🪙@MARA Director of Engineering @theblackmarble in conversation with @BitcoinMagazine Technical Editor @brian_trollzRecorded at the @PresidioBitcoin Quantum Bitcoin Summit 2025Watch on YouTube: https://t.co/sVrh3XyZHD00:00 - Intro: The Quantum Threat to Bitcoin00:34 - The Quantum Bitcoin Summit02:07 - Origin and Concept of the Hourglass Proposal04:57 - Challenges in Achieving Consensus and User Behavior10:17 - Revisions and Enforce ...