Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a ‘DOG Mode’ reply
While BIP 110 wants to restrict data through a consensus change and has almost no miner support, a new DOG Mode client wants the opposite and requires no vote at all.
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Summary
- A leading Ordinals and Runes advocate, Leonidas, has proposed a new open-source Bitcoin client called DOG Mode that would bypass the stalled BIP 110 process to restrict non-financial data.
- DOG Mode would relax Bitcoin Core’s relay policies by allowing near–block-size transactions and cutting the dust limit to one satoshi, changes that could free an estimated $25 million in “padding” used by Ordinals and Runes.
- Unlike BIP 110, which would change consensus rules and has virtually no miner support, DOG Mode only alters what nodes forward and could work with just one miner including such transactions, though it currently exists only as an announced initiative without code.
