According to Protos, as reported by ChainCatcher, Jason Hughes, Vice President of the OCEAN mining pool, announced that he will sell all his Bitcoin and exit the industry in protest of the recent OP_RETURN change decision.
Hughes expressed extreme disappointment with this decision by Bitcoin Core developers, stating that "52 days ago, Bitcoin Core development at least pretended to have principles" and that he has "exhausted his energy in this fight". Hughes warned: "The qualities that made Bitcoin unique no longer exist."
Previously, Bitcoin Core developers planned to implement the OP_RETURN change in October, which will no longer filter OP_RETURN outputs containing large amounts of non-financial data. This change will increase the default data carrier limit from the current 80 bytes to nearly 4MB.
