RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 Up until Core v30 Bitcoin has never had a feature intentionally designed to host non-financial content. It only had financial features hijacked to hold non-financial content. ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@th_s4m0ht @maniac94846 Up until Core v30 Bitcoin has never had a feature intentionally designed to host non-financial content. It only had financial features hijacked to hold non-financial content. ...

Bitcoin Technology & Functionality - Prior to Core v30, Bitcoin lacked features intentionally designed for non-financial content [1] - Bitcoin's financial features were repurposed to accommodate non-financial content [1]

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)That is a consequence of not incentivizing non-financial content to be in its own bucket (or on another chain). If you mix your financial functionality with arbitrary content, which poses a far wider swath of legal risks and moral objections, it is going to stop being so functional. Since Core v30 is signaling an invitation to more rather than less use OP_RETURN for non-financial content, they are also inadvertently signaling that the financial functionality of OP_RETURN is deprec ...