Zhao emphasized the intention to mitigate unintended consequences of the existing limit, noting, “The primary motivation for this [change] is to correct a mismatch between the harmfulness and standardness of data storage techniques.”
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Gloria Zhao, a Bitcoin Core developer, highlighted that the change addresses harmful mismatches in data-storage techniques currently in use
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