Merged and Divided

This Week in Bitcoin

Bitcoin Core merges bold and contentious updates; I get into their reasons why. Plus, Inflation eases for now, but the trend is clear. Why we can expect higher for longer.
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• CPI inflation report May 2025: U.S. inflation rises 0.1%
• Here's the inflation breakdown for May 2025 — in one chart
• Trump’s tariffs have so far caused little inflation
• Vance joins Trump in bashing Powell, says Fed committing 'monetary malpractice' by not cutting rates
• ECB cuts interest rates to 2% in effort to bolster flagging eurozone growth | European Central Bank
• Euro Rebounds to $1.14 after ECB Rates Cut
• 277. Lyn Alden Nothing Stops This Train - YouTube
• BlackRock Bitcoin Fund Flies Past $70,000,000,000 Faster Than Any Other ETF in History
• Bitcoin is introduced into Africa's largest slum, with risks and rewards - YouTube
• opportunity-cost: See every price in Bitcoin. Understand the Bitcoin opportunity cost of your purchases.
• Inflated - YouTube

PR #32406 LINKS

• RFC 7282 - On Consensus and Humming in the IETF
• Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
• Addressing community concerns and objections regarding my recent proposal to relax Bitcoin Core's standardness limits on OP_RETURN outputs - Philosophy - Delving Bitcoin
• Addressing community concerns and objections regarding my recent proposal to relax Bitcoin Core's standardness limits on OP_RETURN outputs - Philosophy - Delving Bitcoin
• OP_RETURN limits: Pros and Cons - Implementation - Delving Bitcoin
• A Comprehensive OP_RETURN Limits Q&A Resource to Combat Misinformation - Philosophy - Delving Bitcoin
• Quick questions about OP_RETURN? Quick answers here. \ stacker news ~bitcoin
• mononaut on X: "the deluge continues. Mara earned an extra 0.018 BTC by stuffing this block full of non-standard op_returns. https://t.co/5yWQIT7DAS https://t.co/fIHtgbjDOm" / X
• Ghost of Unhosted Marcellus 👻 on X: "The OP_RETURN thread is way due for an update 🧵 I'm happy to report that the spammers took my challenge seriously and for the month of May (blocks 894655 to 899281) we saw 13325 non-std OP_RETURNs on the chain. That's 443x times what we saw from January to April 2025! https://t.co/ReaLabn15J" / X
• Quick questions about OP_RETURN? Quick answers here.
• Addressing community concerns and objections regarding my recent proposal to relax Bitcoin Core's standardness limits on OP_RETURN outputs - Philosophy - Delving Bitcoin
• Addressing community concerns and objections regarding my recent proposal to relax Bitcoin Core's standardness limits on OP_RETURN outputs - Philosophy - Delving Bitcoin
• Mechanic #FixTheFilters #300kb on X: "Bitcoin runs on incentives. Nodes have no incentive to relay trash and assist in making their own transactions more expensive. The only reason they would is because they've had a 1984-style deletion of the instinct to differentiate between genuine usage of Bitcoin as money and" / X
• Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
• Just a moment…
• Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
• Relax OP_RETURN standardness restrictions
• The Spam problem of Bitcoin and Unpermissioned Broadcast Networks in general - Economics - Delving Bitcoin
• Waiting for confirmation: a series about mempool and relay policy | Bitcoin Optech

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