Morning Edition · Wednesday, July 22, 2026Published at 1:32 AM EDT · New York
A plan to temporarily restrict arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions faces the argument that changes stick only with broad economic backing, echoing the 2017 activation fight.

A proposal to temporarily restrict arbitrary data in Bitcoin transactions is drawing pushback on the grounds that it lacks the backing of economic nodes, protocol developers, and hashrate needed to actually change the network. The argument,…
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