Debate Grows Over Corporate Influence and OP_RETURN Expansion in Bitcoin
A recent article from The Bit Times highlights growing concerns about corporate influence in Bitcoin development, linking a proposal to expand OP_RETURN limits with the needs of ZK and BitVM-related projects aiming to store more data on-chain.
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The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development
Last week, alarm bells rang over a proposal to relax data storage limitations via an operation code of Bitcoin script.
It was a deceptively minor change to the policy of full node software that shed light on the corporate interests encroaching on Bitcoin’s technical development.
Instead of rubber-stamping the idea, technical Bitcoiners sprang into action, whipping up support for their side of the debate. Critics revealed the commercial interests of companies like Citrea and an assortment of zero-knowledge (ZK) and Bitcoin virtual machine (BitVM) companies that are pushing developers to raise data storage abilities.