Bitcoin Core’s developers have received mixed feedback from the Bitcoin community after releasing their new v30 version. This update brings a number of changes related to node architecture, security and performance.
Bitcoin Core 30.0 introduces optional encrypted connections for improved privacy, and increases the OP_RETURN limit. Bitcoin Core Software can be increased from 80 bytes to 100 thousand, which allows for a much larger amount of data that is not financial to be included in Bitcoin transactions.
“With the release of this new major version, versions 27.x and older are at ‘End of Life’ and will no longer receive updates,” Read the Sunday announcement.
Although the new version also includes bug fixes, improvements to performance and changes in fee rates, it is the main issue that has been addressed. stir debate in the community This is an increase in the limit of OP_Return.
The data cap has been increased by a large amount, allowing for more data-hungry and sophisticated decentralized applications to be developed on the Bitcoin network. But purist Bitcoin users are angry about the change. They believe that Bitcoin should only ever be used as a network for financial transactions.
Block size wars
The current debate, while not a change in protocol, brings back memories. block size wars This led to a Bitcoin Cash hard-fork at the end of 2017.
Alex Bergeron of Ark Labs Ecosystem lead, sees the update as positive. said X informed me on Friday of his intentions “to use all of the additional OP_Return space and WILL use it to make Bitcoin more like Ethereum, except better.”
Satoshi Labs founder Pavol Rusnak stated that he also chose Bitcoin Core v30 yesterday due to the fact it was a stable version. “great development team, peer-reviewed code,” The following are some examples of how to get started: “sane engineering decisions.”
Some were less optimistic. They argued that this goes against Bitcoin’s basic principles as a peer to peer electronic cash system, and it could result in blockchain overgrowth, higher node operating costs, and legal issues.
Alternative node software, also known as “knots,” As it allows for strict size limitations on transaction data, such as 80 Bytes.
“As a (hopefully) temporary measure, run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30,” noted Nick Szabo, a pioneer cryptographer, was contacted via X by last week.
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Szabo, who raised his concerns in this past month regarding the legal implications of increasing the data limit, expressed concern that node operators could be held liable for hosting “illegal data.”
“Without adding safeguards to allow archival node operators to non-disruptively delete illegal content for which they will often be held criminally liable,” he posted Oct. 2 is the day to watch X.
Luke Dashjr the founder of knots hasn’t made any comments on this update since its launch. However, he is critical of Bitcoin Core’s latest update.
Knots is used by a number of node operators. BitRef data indicates that currently there are 5114 Knots servers, or 21.48%, of all Bitcoin nodes.
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Source: cointelegraph.com
