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Bitcoin Spam Mitigation and Consensus Trade-offs

Nodes 14 Oct 2025

Bitcoin Spam Mitigation and Consensus Trade-offs

The October 14, 2025 episode of Supply Shock features Pierre Rochard arguing that Bitcoin should raise the cost of non-monetary data at the consensus layer. He favors removing OP_RETURN and limiting Taproot input sizes to reduce node burdens and fee distortions.

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