1 2017-09-20 05:55:21 <alexwaters> anyone mind getting me up to speed on current OP_RETURN. is the length still limited to like 80 bytes or is it limited to the script limit of 10kb
2 2017-09-20 05:56:32 <alexwaters> building something that uses it to store sha2 + xpub - so not that it matters just curious
3 2017-09-20 05:57:29 <alexwaters> and not on the bitcoin main net, that's a silly place
4 2017-09-20 07:16:30 <esotericnonsense> 40 bytes
5 2017-09-20 07:17:55 <alexwaters> esotericnonsense, well dang. ty
6 2017-09-20 07:19:12 <esotericnonsense> it's really only there as a concession to stop people doing stupid stuff like encoding data in addresses or other unprunable outputs
7 2017-09-20 07:19:23 <esotericnonsense> (well, not stop, incentivise)
8 2017-09-20 07:26:25 <alexwaters> @esotericnonsense i wish my bitcoin wallet had option to install bitmessage plugin :wink: