Proposal to prevent ‘spam’ sequence numbers on Bitcoin network comes to an abrupt halt

One of the most controversial Bitcoin proposals in years — a move that would make it more difficult to mint NFTs and tokens on the blockchain — ended abruptly without any action, leading to major criticism of the proposal. Supporters claim censorship changes were made.

Well-known developer Luke Dashjr has been working in the Bitcoin field for more than ten years. exhibit The move comes just months after the emergence of Ordinals, a protocol that allows users to “etch” data into the blockchain, such as NFTs or new tokens. The Ordinals project quickly became so popular that it caused network congestion. Bitcoin-based NFTs (previously only available on other blockchains such as Ethereum) have proven their worth, with the “BitcoinShroom” three-piece set recently being auctioned at the historic Sotheby’s auction house for approx. $450,000.

Luke Dashjr – Bitcoin Developer

Dashjr submitted a proposal on the open source developer platform Github with a very simple technical goal: to update the popular Bitcoin Core software “to work with newer data container types.” But discussion quickly became heated over whether the 14-year-old blockchain should remain a peer-to-peer payments network, or whether market forces should decide which transactions take priority.

Even some experts advocating this purer vision of blockchain have expressed doubts that Dashjr’s proposal to filter Ordinals transactions will appeal to Bitcoin miners, who play a key role in operating the network and benefit greatly from the fees it charges. shallow.

A few days ago, Bitcoin Core maintainer Ava Chow abruptly ended further discussion of the Dashjr proposal — technically known as a “pull request” (PR) — without taking any action. What actions should be taken to merge the new code?

according to Web page In the open source Bitcoin Core project, maintainers are responsible for adding code changes that the team agrees should be merged.

Zhou wrote:

“It is clear that this PR exercise is controversial and as things stand it is impossible to reach a conclusion that is acceptable to everyone. At this point I see no reason to remain open about it and continue to send messages about ongoing information on the deadlock discussion.”

“Quite complicated”

Gloria Chao, another Bitcoin Core maintainer said tweet A summary of the debate on Github, including a summary of the technical details.

The purpose of the Dashjr proposal is to apply strict data size limits to Bitcoin transactions more broadly, similar to the hard 80-byte limit applied to a specific data field called “.”OP_return“.

Lisa Neigut, a Blockstream developer, also teaches courses for Bitcoin developers at Base58explain:

“There has been a lot of discussion about adding filters to prevent Ordinals TX from entering Bitcoin, which is a fairly complex approach. Essentially, this would make it very difficult to put sequence numbers into blocks using the regular TX distribution path. “

Zhao noted in the briefing that efforts to “prevent inscriptions” from being viewed as “spam” have been opposed by the argument that “we can’t write code to detect all embedded data.”

In response, Dashjrtweet “You ignored the PR objections that were countered/answered” and Zhou “censored anyone who wanted to respond.”

Dashjr strives to eliminate “plan His company, Mummolin, has made headlines since at least 2014 when it raised $6.2 million in a seed round led by Block Inc. Twitter founder Jack Dorsey started the trend.

Notably, the head of the company’s Bitcoin Ocean mining pool said last month that the new project may filter out more transactions related to Ordinal Inscription.

Dashjr responds to comment requests by sending a link the latest posts He wrote it on Github a few days ago.

The proposal “fixes a bug that was unfairly shut down due to social attacks. This remains an active issue that needs to be resolved,” Dashjr wrote on Github.

A series of comments appeared on the new post, sparking fresh debate on the topic.

After the article was published, Dashjr tweet:

“Spam filtering won’t die until spam dies.”

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