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@ Norbert
2025-05-13 20:23:57
Bitcoin's developers have long been criticized for not being the best communicators. You should have seen how it was when we tried to get SegWit activated. Eventually they published a pretty good FAQ. Later we got the OpTech newsletter etc. It's a lot better today compared to then, but it's probably not good enough. Developer time is scarce, and it would be nice to let them just work instead of becoming expert communicators able to convey nuanced technical concepts to regular people.
> if it turns out this change creates harmful consequences, can we simply roll it back withouth any issue?
Yes, it's just a mempool policy thing. Rolling back a mempool policy change does not involve a consensus change, just a new software release with adjusted mempool policy, and then encourage people to switch to it.
That said, this stuff is very well understood by now (we literally had the first OP_RETURN war in 2014, not much is new) – there isn't really any risk of harm.