One thing I realized yesterday about "Star Wars Day" is that it's really a word usage test that people pass or fail:
May the forth be with you. ❌
May the fourth be with you. ✅
Those who want the OP_RETURN limit to be relaxed say, "Let the free market decide: if someone pays to store some data in a block, so be it. The free market has spoken by voting with their coin."
Those who want the OP_RETURN to stay as it is say, "Let the free market decide which bitcoin software to use, Core or Knots. If people choose to use Knots, the free market has spoken against Core's blockchain bloat and data storage.
The free market has spoken by voting with their feet."
To me, both seem to say the same thing: let the free market decide. Am I wrong?
The thing I like most about the OP_RETURN situation is that I'm repeatedly seeing ir hearing the word "kerfuffle."
I once thought that would be a great name for a band: The Kerfuffles
NPR spends a lot of effort downplaying the funds they get from the US government as supposedly not amounting to much at all. In fact, they say "less than 1%". Get ready for some whining to come along soon over this supposed "less than 1%" funding.
https://www.cnn.com/2025/05/02/media/trump-cpb-pbs-npr-funding-cut-hnk-intl
My thoughts from a few months ago:
