BIP‑110 Gets JPEG‑Spammed, No OP_RETURN Needed

Martin Habovštiak, a Slovak dev who tends the Rust Bitcoin library, slotted a 66 KB JPEG straight onto the Bitcoin ledger in a single transaction—no OP_RETURN, no Taproot, no OP_IF. Just raw SegWit v0 mayhem, like a meme‑coin splash in a vault.

It wasn’t a joke; it was a digital middle‑finger to BIP‑110, the “anti‑spam” draft that tries to lock OP_RETURN at 83 bytes and throttle on‑chain data. Habovštiak showed you can still cram payloads into Bitcoin without the forbidden opcodes. The proposal? Already out‑maneuvered.

The intended audience? Luke Dashjr and the Bitcoin Knots camp, who have branded inscriptions “spam” since 2023 and claim any extra data threatens Bitcoin’s “core purpose as money.” Dashjr even retorted on X: “His spam isn’t and doesn’t contain contiguous