After personal attacks and drama during this month’s op_return war, after the war over non-financial data storage on the Bitcoin blockchain, senior Bitcoin core maintainer Gloria Zhao has deleted his X account.
In the words of the developers responsible for the proposal for OP_Return, which launched the war in April, the proposal, Antoine Pointe Sott from Chaincode Labs, was “heavyly mediated” and “gives a lot of wasted time for everyone.”
It also erased one of the most popular developers from Bitcoin’s most active social media network.
In the days leading up to her X resignation, Zhao became a supporter of voices to lift the limit on Op_return’s Mempool Datacarrier relay from 83 to hundreds of thousands of bytes. Essentially, this change would have addressed more non-financial data on Bitcoin ledgers, including photos, games, third-party code, and business data.
Her reasoning was that, like many of her chaincode labs and Brink’s colleagues, the restrictions were outdated and inherently meaningless. Alternate data storage elsewhere.
She felt that Bitcoin Core Node software, by default, should accept and relay large OP_Return outputs across the Mempool queue of pending transactions.
That way, the node operator will look better about the fees and the deals that are most likely to join the next block of Bitcoin.
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Zhao enjoyed much support from her side of the debate, but she also received an equal amount of negative feedback from the opposition.
The 83-byte limit for Defending Op_return is on the rise at a large scale of conservative Bitcoin node operators with no reason to facilitate storage of non-Bitcoin (BTC) data. They call photos and third-party data packed into the op_return output “spam.”
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Conservatives only argue that lifting the 83-byte cap only encourages more spam, and debates about modernisation or harmony with other data storage options by people like Zhao have not been condemned.
Even incomplete restrictions act as deterrentsthey insisted.
In their view, the job of Bitcoin Core is to store the reference client of the node operator and validate the BTC transaction. It’s not working with distributed databases similar to cloud storage.
In any case, Zhao was on the verge of relaxing the DataCarrier limit on Op_return. It was extremely unpopular with her conservative opposition, including one of its leaders, a Bitcoin mechanic.
Gloria Zhao says goodbye to the op_return drama
In the live stream on April 29th, Bitcoin mechanics lamented developers such as Zhao, claiming a more progressive software default. At one point, he attacked her qualifications and praised her romantic relationship with another senior developer as the main reason she enjoyed commit access to GitHub code.
As Op_return War took place, the reprocessing of the clip went viral on X. Soon, with a mutation like a classic phone game, the bitcoin mechanic’s accusation of simple love interest transformed into the meaning that Zhao “slept with someone to get her job.”
Bitcoinmechanic never made that clear accusation, Many people attacked him for hints.
Zhao also attracted more recent negative attention after critics pointed out her role in voicing the definition of “deprecation” that serves her interests.
For any kind of reason, Zhao decided that time on X was over. She also deleted the entire history of tweets and replies.
