Unchained · Friday, August 14, 2026
A Bitcoin soft fork, specifically a reduced data temporary soft fork, has been implemented to limit OP_RETURN outputs to 83 bytes and taproot witness pushes for one year. The goal is to mitigate Ordinals and ERC20 spam on the network. The change was proposed by an anonymous developer and championed by Luke Dashjr.
“So, uh, there was a Bitcoin soft fork, um, uh, I guess it was explicitly a reduced data temporary soft fork that caps the OP return outputs at 83 bytes and taproot witness pushes for one year to throttle, throttle kill, strangle, Ordanals, ERC20 spam.”
“Um, and it was altered by a, a anonymous guy, Dave on Ohm, uh, but championed, um, by like maybe the main character of the timeline this week, Luke this year.”