Murch on Nostr: Blocks are generally full, so this cannot increase the size of the chain. In fact, ...
Blocks are generally full, so this cannot increase the size of the chain. In fact, since op_return data is written to output scripts, it may displace witness data and shrink blocks in average. Either way, Satoshi wrote that a decade ago, who knows what he would think today if he had been around to see everything that happened since then.
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