# Bitcoin Core’s Identity Crisis

URL: /show/this-week-in-bitcoin/56/
> A battle is raging over Bitcoin’s future—should it stick to finance, or allow data of all kinds? Inside the debate over blockchain limits, and the recent controversies denting Bitcoin’s image.

- Show: [This Week In Bitcoin](/show/this-week-in-bitcoin/)
- Episode: 56
- Date: 2025-04-30
- Hosts: chris
- Duration: 00:58:27
- Audio: https://op3.dev/e/serve.podhome.fm/episode/f01a19c0-6f9d-4aef-9515-08dc15242149/638816367276344001c7bd0532-0370-4747-9d2f-62b5af9494b6v1.mp3





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* [Remove arbitrary limits on OP_Return outputs by petertodd · Pull Request #32359 ](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/32359#)
* [Bitcoin devs continue fight over ‘arbitrary’ data storage](https://protos.com/bitcoin-devs-continue-fight-over-arbitrary-data-storage/)
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* [Bitcoin Core Going Rogue? - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zgsiDAhq4d4)
* [Bitcoin Knots](https://bitcoinknots.org/)
* [Federal Reserve retracts guidance discouraging banks from engaging in crypto](https://www.theblock.co/post/351943/federal-reserve-retracts-guidance-discouraging-banks-from-engaging-in-crypto)
* [Bitcoin has a Brand Problem](https://mikecldi.substack.com/p/bitcoin-has-a-brand-problem)
* [UN Claims Mining "Powerful Tool" For Money Laundering](https://www.therage.co/un-mining-money-laundering/)
* [Trump Bitcoin Report Card - Day 100 - stacker news](https://stacker.news/items/966434)
* [trump-bitcoin-report-card](https://github.com/crrdlx/trump-bitcoin-report-card)

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