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,” The announcement for Sunday reads:
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 The OP_Return Limit has been increased.
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 purists argue that Bitcoin should only ever be used as a network of 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 announced on Friday his intention to attend the meeting. “to use all of the additional OP_Return space and WILL use it to make Bitcoin more like Ethereum, except better.”
Satoshi Labs’ co-founder Pavol Russell also said yesterday that he would be opting for Bitcoin Core v30 because of having “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.
The alternative software for nodes known as “knots,” As it allows for strict size limitations on data (80 bytes) to be applied.
“As a (hopefully) temporary measure, run Knots. I strongly recommend not upgrading to Core v30,” noted Nick Szabo is a pioneer cryptographer.
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Szabo expressed concerns earlier this month about the potential legal consequences of an increase in the data limits, since node operators risk 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 On X, Oct. 2,
Luke Dashjr is the founder of Knots. He hasn’t commented since the Bitcoin Core upgrade went live, but he was critical.
The data shows that many node operators use Knots. According to BitRef, there are 5,114 Knots Nodes currently, which represents 21.48% all Bitcoin Nodes.
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Source: cointelegraph.com
