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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Removing OP_return limits seems like a huge mistake
by
gmaxwell
on 25/07/2025, 07:24:04 UTC
The weight limit counts stuff that goes into the UTXO set more than it counts the rest. It doesn't have anything to do with aggregations or discounts or whatever--  it's just the limit on what can be in a block recognizes that UTXO data takes more resources.  Neither signature data nor op-return stuff goes in the utxo.   In all fairness the up-weighing ought to be much higher but there is a tradeoff vs how much bandwidth people can cause if they make unusual transactions with more witness data than typical... and a subset of users are more bandwidth limited than memory/io/etc. limited.