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New DOG Mode Bitcoin client aims to bypass anti-spam limits
The proposed client would adjust Bitcoin Core relay and dust thresholds, potentially freeing an estimated $25 million in Ordinals and Runes padding.
A leading advocate for Bitcoin’s Ordinals and Runes ecosystems has proposed an open source Bitcoin client called DOG Mode, aiming to bypass a stalled effort to curb certain non-financial data propagation. CoinDesk reports that the initiative is positioned as a substitute for BIP 110, which would change consensus rules and currently has almost no miner support.
Under DOG Mode, the client would modify Bitcoin Core relay policies rather than consensus rules. According to CoinDesk, it would lift the maximum standard transaction relay limit from 400,000 weight units to 3,900,000, and it would cut the dust limit to one satoshi.
CoinDesk also reports that those changes could free an estimated $25 million in “padding” used by Ordinals and Runes. The outlet notes DOG Mode would be designed to work even if it only has a single miner to include such near–block-size transactions, although it currently exists only as an announced initiative without code.
CoinDesk previously covered a separate push to purge non-financial data from Bitcoin that faced an approaching deadline with effectively zero miner backing. Developers in the community are now pursuing an alternative path that skips the vote entirely by focusing on what nodes forward, not what blocks validate.
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