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Casey Rodarmor on Ordinals, Inscriptions, and Digital Property Rights (EP.399)

On The Brink with Castle Island

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Bitcoin Core

The maximum size of an inscription under Standard rules is it 400 kilobytes or something? That's right. Where does that threshold come from? It's a one-line check in Bitcoin core. Every node has to have the same consensus rules. Otherwise they fall out of consensus But then there's also policy rules and policy rules are those rules which every individual node runner can can set differently Sort of like how you run your node the particular details of how you runyour node. And before we upgraded to all these fancy new signature types like taproot and segway I think that there was a problem where if you had a very big transaction that had a lot of these old signature type inputs

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