PANews reported on May 7th that according to Protos, Jan3 CEO Samson Mow stated that someone paid senior Bitcoin developer Peter Todd to write a controversial code change proposal PR 32359, aimed at removing the data carrier limit of OP_RETURN in Bitcoin Core's default memory pool. Mow said this was a corporate initiative, not a natural community idea. During the discussion, Chaincode Labs' Antoine Poinsot and Todd provided cultural and technical reasons for removing the restriction, claiming it was "ineffective" in preventing non-financial chain data storage. However, Todd admitted the proposal was primarily for a company. Mow suspected someone at Chaincode was "money laundering" through PR, which Poinsot denied and countered that Mow was seeking attention.
Additionally, Blockstream engineer Greg Sanders said Core plans to implement PR 32359 in the next update, but the core maintainers' intentions are variable, and it's unclear whether the new version will include this modification. The related voting and participation on GitHub have been locked, with dozens of developers having differing opinions, and the number of full nodes opposing the PR reaching a new high. The #FixTheFilters topic has become popular on social media, with many critics accusing Core of catering to businesses and ignoring Bitcoin's development.
Related reading: Bitcoin OP_RETURN Controversial Proposal: Return to Freedom or Exacerbate Congestion?
