Bitcoin Developer Exposes Governance Blind Spot with Hidden Image in Transaction
Bitcoin Developer Exposes Governance Blind Spot with Hidden Image in Transaction
A Bitcoin developer successfully embedded a 66-kilobyte image within a single transaction without utilizing OP_RETURN or Taproot, adhering to consensus rules. The action was not for artistic purposes but to demonstrate a governance blind spot and a vulnerability to spam within the Bitcoin network, bypassing popular filters and highlighting that closing one data pathway merely shifts where data can be embedded.
A Bitcoin developer embedded a 66-kilobyte image inside a single transaction without using OP_RETURN or Taproot. The transaction followed consensus rules. Anyone can verify the bytes using standard node software. Martin Habovštiak didn't do this to make art, but to prove that closing one data doorway doesn't remove the capability, it just changes where bytes […]
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