The corporate interests taking over Bitcoin development

Critics say a Bitcoin Core pull request by Peter Todd, PR 32359, would lift the OP_RETURN datacarrier limit from 83 bytes to nearly the full 1MB block size, exposing corporate interests in Bitcoin's development. The change was opened at the request of Chaincode Labs' Antoine Poinsot and was criticized for removing the config option that let node operators set their own limit. Critics linked the proposal to Citrea, whose co-founder Jameson Lopp was named as the leading spokesman for the PR, and to BitVM-related projects. The article says the PR will likely expire without consensus.