Prominent Bitcoin advocate Jimmy Song criticized the update, stating it will significantly increase “garbage” data on the blockchain and worsen UTXO bloat

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“OP_RETURN outputs greater than 83 bytes will increase significantly, UTXO bloat will keep getting worse and there will be more garbage on the chain.” he said.
Bitcoin advocate Jimmy Song criticized the update, stating it would worsen UTXO (Unspent Transaction Output) bloat by enabling more on-chain spam.

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