Bitcoin Core dev Gloria Zhao says the data limit f

An upcoming Bitcoin software update will increase the data limit on a divisive function that will allow significantly more images, text and documents to be stored on the Bitcoin blockchain, a developer says.

The Bitcoin Core 30 update slated for Oct. 30 will remove the 80-byte limit on the controversial OP_RETURN function and allow each output to carry up to 4 megabytes of data, Bitcoin Core developer Gloria Zhao posted to GitHub on Monday.

It comes three days after 31 Bitcoin Core devs signed a statement supporting the change, known as merged pull request (MPR) #32406. The Bitcoin devs indicated on May 5 that the data limit would be removed.

OP_RETURN enabled the Ordinals craze last year, allowing Bitcoin users to post everything on the blockchain from non-fungible token-like collections to the Afghan war logs published by WikiLeaks in 2010.

The slated change infuriated the conservative sect of the Bitcoin community, who argue that non-financial data clogs the blockchain with spam and believe the network should focus on peer-to-peer Bitcoin