ProductionReady's Jimmy Song Pitches Case for Conservative Bitcoin Software
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Published on April 4, 2026.
Jimmy Song, co-founder of ProductionReady, a non-profit organization funding open-source Bitcoin software development and education, has argued that the Bitcoin (BTC) network needs a conservative Bitcoin client node software implementation to preserve its monetary properties and strengthen network decentralization. ProductionReady plans to restore the 83-byte OP_Return data limit for arbitrary, non-monetary information in Bitcoin transactions. Song argues that keeping node storage costs down by limiting arbitrary data is essential to network decentralisation. This comes after Bitcoin Core developers unilaterally changed the data limit in Bitcoin Core version 30, a move that led to significant pushback from the Bitcoin community.
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