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In June 2025, Bitcoin Core developers made a declaration:
That single line tore the community apart. By lifting the 10-year cap on OP_RETURN, they allowed JPEGs, AI novels, spam .zips, even audio logs on-chain.
🖼️ Mempools flooded
💸 JPEGs reigned
⚔️ Maxis snapped
Bitcoin JPEG Wars is not a game. It's a fork risk protocol.
A decentralized simulation of the ideological civil war Bitcoin refuses to acknowledge.
>>> Choose your side. This is not a game. This is a fork risk protocol.
This vote will determine the future of Bitcoin's data storage capabilities and whether it remains primarily sound money or becomes a general-purpose data layer.