Bitcoin Ordinals supporter Leonidas has proposed the development of a fresh open-source Bitcoin client aimed at removing restrictions affecting Runes and Ordinals transactions.
In a post to X on Friday Leonidas called proposed “Bitcoin $DOG Mode” client which would raise the maximum single transaction size to 3.9 million weight units (WU) compared to Bitcoin Core’s 400,000 WU and lower the dust limit to 1 satoshi (sat) from 294-546 sat.
The changes will make it easier to send order strings and runs, which have been described as Bitcoin’s approach to fungible and non-fungible tokens. Both solutions sparked controversy in the Bitcoin community, with critics claiming they amounted to “spam” on the Bitcoin network.
“Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots have spent years enforcing rules that Bitcoin itself does not have,” Leonidas said in a statement. “The $DOG army is done asking for permission. It’s time to remove even more of these frivolous restrictions.”
Source: Leonidas
Increasing the maximum transaction size would make it easier for Ordinals users to place much larger files or collections in a single transaction, even ones that take up almost an entire block.
Meanwhile, the dust limit is a rule in the Bitcoin network that determines the smallest transaction amount, or UTXO, that can be economically sent. Lowering the dust limit would stop users from having to “fill” results to get transactions broadcast on default Bitcoin Core nodes.
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Bitcoin $DOG mode would be an alternative to Bitcoin Core and Bitcoin Knots, the two most widely used Bitcoin clients.
Leonidas said the goal is to attract enough users to the fresh client that Bitcoin Core will eventually have to loosen its own political restrictions.
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