Cypherpunk Nick Szabo has posted on X after five years of silence, adding his views to a fierce debate between Bitcoin purists and maximalists. Bitcoin Core developers have released the second test version of their controversial Bitcoin Core v30 update, set to usher in a new wallet format and non-monetary data inclusion sometime in October. A new release candidate of Bitcoin Core (v30.0rc2) is available for testing, the Bitcoin Core Project stated on Sunday, labelling it as a “new major release.”The update phases out older legacy wallet infrastructure and introduces a new simplified command system, but the main points of contention regard the policy changes around the OP_RETURN opcode, which allows embedding arbitrary data in transactions.Read more Cypherpunk Nick Szabo has posted on X after five years of silence, adding his views to a fierce debate between Bitcoin purists and maximalists. Bitcoin Core developers have released the second test version of their controversial Bitcoin Core v30 update, set to usher in a new wallet format and non-monetary data inclusion sometime in October. A new release candidate of Bitcoin Core (v30.0rc2) is available for testing, the Bitcoin Core Project stated on Sunday, labelling it as a “new major release.”The update phases out older legacy wallet infrastructure and introduces a new simplified command system, but the main points of contention regard the policy changes around the OP_RETURN opcode, which allows embedding arbitrary data in transactions.Read more

Nick Szabo joins fray as controversial Bitcoin Core update nears release

2025/09/29 13:52

Cypherpunk Nick Szabo has posted on X after five years of silence, adding his views to a fierce debate between Bitcoin purists and maximalists.

Bitcoin Core developers have released the second test version of their controversial Bitcoin Core v30 update, set to usher in a new wallet format and non-monetary data inclusion sometime in October.

A new release candidate of Bitcoin Core (v30.0rc2) is available for testing, the Bitcoin Core Project stated on Sunday, labelling it as a “new major release.”

The update phases out older legacy wallet infrastructure and introduces a new simplified command system, but the main points of contention regard the policy changes around the OP_RETURN opcode, which allows embedding arbitrary data in transactions.

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