Their conclusion based on HARD data - OP_RETURN doesn't significantly bloat the blockchain, and it remains small and manageable.
Yeah, it was discussed in some other threads. There is basically no uptick in the usage of bigger OP_RETURNs at all, and any small change can be dismissed as variance. Contrary to whatever exaggerating and panicking astroturfers and "independent thinkers" (many of such retards that barely have basic Bitcoin knowledge are in the WO thread) claimed, nothing changed at all -- and the conservative and rational voices ended up being right.
Although it's too early to say that this matter is closed, it does dispel the FUD made by the filterbois.
The case is closed whatever happens. If an attacker or spam-obsessed entity wants to harm Bitcoin, they are not going to use OP_RETURN they are going to use UTXOs. Therefore, no matter what happens in the future the arguments by Core will remain correct. Whether there will be a lot more OP_RETURN or not will not change this. In the case that there is heavy OP_RETURN usage, the lesson is that we have managed to prevent significant UTXO bloat by providing this alternative.
Did they ever show solid evidence with concrete data?
No.
And besides the Runes spam which uses rather small OP_RETURN payload, it's pretty obvious that other blockchain spammers wouldn't likely exploit the new relaxed size and count rules for OP_RETURN of Core-v30+ standardness.
There is nothing to exploit, that is the knowledge that they have been twisting. It is a fundamental misunderstanding of what OP_RETURN is and what it is for. If I am using something in the way that it is intended to be used and for the things that it is intended to be used for, then that is not an exploit.
The amount of denial in coretard circles is quite interesting.
You are a shitcoin leech that has never contributed anything to Bitcoin, so you can fuck off.
Although to spam it to the point that it mattered would cost a lot and be obvious what it was and would wind up putting money in competitors pockets so they might not really want to do it.
Someone could try to run the numbers, but the cost to sustain that kind of attack for a significant period of time to make it believable is probably quite significant. If it did happen but only lasted a very short amount of time nobody would believe it. I would not believe it until at least there were several months of sustained spam, and only then would I merely consider this as a possibility. Anyway, Luke-jr and his buddies are mostly broke. Besides collecting mining pool royalties they mostly spending their time fantasizing about being in CSAM committee and reviewing footage all day long. If instead they did quality work somewhere else, they may have enough money to fund this kind of attack.
