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Charles Hoskinson and Psiloblox emphasized Bitcoin messaging improvements, criticizing Bitcoin wallets’ lack of OP_Return support and features. Debate on OP_Return expansion sparked divided opinions, with Luke Dashjr opposing non-financial data use on Bitcoin’s blockchain. Charles Hoskinson, founder and CEO of Cardano and Input Output Global (IOG), has joined the discussion on Bitcoin’s messaging improvements. The debate heated up after the Cardano DRep, Psiloblox, highlighted the OP_Return lack of support for Bitcoin wallets. Hoskinson calls this point “interesting” and emphasizes improving the communication within the Bitcoin network. On that, Cardano’s Lace wallet plans to introduce Bitcoin support. The ADA community quickly became attracted to the debate and pointed out that many other Bitcoin wallets have flaws. Psiloblox explains that many Bitcoin wallets still don’t follow OP_Return. Despite Bitcoin’s huge popularity, the OP_Return remains a fully non-financial transaction feature. Looking back on his own past experience, Psiloblox recalled asking once to have a message field added in the Bitkit wallet. He envisioned a simple way to input text that would be automatically converted to HEX format for direct use. Moonshine Wallet was called out as a real example embracing this vision. Developers Target Bitcoin’s 80-Byte Restriction Beyond single proposals, other Bitcoin developers have initiated more general improvements aimed at enhancing OP_Return capabilities. One well-respected developer, Peter Todd, acknowledged that there have been attempts over a couple of years to address data storage misuse by means of this feature. His proposal today aims to remove restrictions on OP_Return, specifically a limit of 80 bytes placed on this feature when it was implemented to reduce spam on the blockchain. Why is everyone seemingly losing their minds about modifying OP_Return, as first discussed by @peterktodd and @darosior?? Come with me on a brief journey into developer land to try to understand… (also, please correct me if…

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