Out of over 1,500,000 OP_RETURN outputs created since block height 930,600 (Core v30 release) only 0.001% have been larger than 83 bytes.
So much for "blowing out the OP_RETURN limit" killing Bitcoin, eh kratterprimalnet (nprofile…jhn6)?
Jameson Lopp
npub17u…wt4tp
2026-01-04 18:46:12 UTC
Author Public Key
npub17u5dneh8qjp43ecfxr6u5e9sjamsmxyuekrg2nlxrrk6nj9rsyrqywt4tpPublished at
2026-01-04 18:46:12 UTCEvent JSON
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