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Ordinals advocate unveils plan for DOG Mode to bypass Bitcoin data limits

The proposed client would raise Bitcoin Core relay limits, including a move from 400,000 to 3.9 million weight units, and reduce the dust limit to one satoshi.

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CoinDesk reports that Leonidas, a prominent Ordinals and Runes advocate, has proposed an open-source Bitcoin client called DOG Mode aimed at bypassing the stalled BIP-110 effort to restrict so-called non-financial data.

According to the report, DOG Mode would not change Bitcoin consensus rules. Instead, it would adjust what nodes forward by relaxing Bitcoin Core relay policies, including allowing near-block-size transactions and cutting the dust limit to one satoshi.

The outlet says DOG Mode is intended to free an estimated $25 million in “padding” used by Ordinals and Runes. It also contrasts with BIP-110 by focusing on relay policy, meaning a miner could still include such transactions in a block even if other nodes would not relay them under Bitcoin Core defaults.

CoinDesk adds that DOG Mode exists only as an announced initiative without code, while another community effort highlighted a path that skips the vote entirely, potentially requiring just a miner to accept the transactions directly.

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