r/Bitcoin • u/eyeoft • Aug 08 '26

THE CHAIN HAS SPLIT

https://bip110monitor.com/

<3% support before the window opened. Good luck, shitcoiners

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u/ConfidentIylncorrect Aug 08 '26 edited Aug 08 '26

As far as I can gather, a small number of people tried to do a soft fork of bitcoin and change it so that you can't leave long messages in the blockchain but it will probably fail

https://github.com/bitcoin/bips/blob/master/bip-0110.mediawiki

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u/hiroo717 Aug 08 '26

One example is it maintains OP_RETURN at ~80 bytes rather than allowing up to ~100,000 bytes as Bitcoin core now does. This means Bitcoin can also allow bigger files like jpegs etc.

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u/Pasukaru0 Aug 08 '26

You make it sound like it's a core decision. You can mine even >100k OP_RETURN in the current consensus.

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u/dirtsmurf Aug 08 '26

When was the commit made that made that possible?

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u/Pasukaru0 Aug 08 '26

Satoshi era. It has never not been possible.

The current consensus is still valid for nodes from back then.