Bitcoin Core v30 could cause 'catastrophic' node shutdown, critics warn | Protos
Bitcoin Core could trigger a meltdown across BTC exchanges and mining pools if it goes ahead with plans to raise data limits with its upcoming version 30 (v30) software. This is according to Bitcoin Mechanic, a vocal advocate for limiting arbitrary data storage on Bitcoin’s blockchain. Developers have been fighting all year over the default amount of data unrelated to the on-chain movement of bitcoin (BTC) that most nodes should accept into their queue of pending transactions. For over a decade, almost all Bitcoin node operators have capped their mempools’ OP_RETURN datacarrier below 90 bytes. Bitcoin Mechanic, who leads a group of Knots node operators who are protesting Core’s proposal to lift OP_RETURN’s datacarrier to 100,000 bytes, claims that a likely outcome of this staggering increase is a catastrophic, forced shutdown of hosted nodes and cloud infrastructure connected to the Bitcoin network. Propagating malware across hosted Bitcoin Core v30 nodes Spe...