PANews reported on May 7 that according to Protos, Samson Mow, CEO of Bitcoin wallet company Jan3, said that someone paid veteran Bitcoin developer Peter Todd to write controversial code change proposal PR 32359, which aims to remove the data carrier restriction of OP_RETURN in the default memory pool of Bitcoin Core. Mow said that this is a corporate initiative and not a natural idea of the community. During the discussion, Antoine Poinsot and Todd of Chaincode Labs gave cultural and technical reasons for removing the restrictions, saying that the restrictions were "ineffective" in preventing non-financial on-chain data storage. But Todd admitted that the proposal was mainly for companies. Mow suspected that someone in Chaincode paid Todd in the form of "PR money laundering", and Poinsot denied it and countered that Mow was trying to attract attention.
In addition, Blockstream engineer Greg Sanders said that Core plans to implement PR 32359 in the next update, but the core maintainers have changeable intentions, and it is unclear whether the new version will include this modification. The relevant votes and participation on GitHub have been locked, and dozens of developers have different opinions. The number of full nodes opposing this PR has reached a new high. The topic #FixTheFilters is popular on social media, and many critics accuse Core of catering to enterprises and ignoring the development of Bitcoin.
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