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May 10, 6:52 am

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Bitcoin Developers Consider Action Against BRC-20 Tokens to Reduce Fees, Congestion

Bitcoin's core network of developers is considering taking action against BRC-20 tokens due to their contribution to record levels of fees and congestion on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ali Sherief proposed changes to the Bitcoin codebase and introduced a runtime-option to delete non-standard Taproot transactions, while Luke Dashjr proposed using a script code to mark these transaction outputs as invalid.

Bitcoin's core network of developers is considering taking action against BRC-20 tokens due to their contribution to record levels of fees and congestion on the Bitcoin blockchain. Ali Sherief proposed changes to the Bitcoin codebase and introduced a runtime-option to delete non-standard Taproot transactions, while Luke Dashjr proposed using a script code to mark these transaction outputs as invalid.

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