I’m seeing lots of speculation around the financial motivations with regards to modifying OP_RETURN standard core policy.
In 2023 Peter Todd was transparent with his financial incentive ($1000 from Christopher Allen) for making pull request 28130, which was ultimately closed
https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/28130
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