Bitcoin’s anti-spam fight gets a 'DOG Mode' reply
Bitcoin developer Leonidas has introduced 'DOG Mode,' an open-source client designed to bypass standard Bitcoin Core relay limits. The project aims to allow larger transactions and lower dust limits, potentially benefiting the Ordinals and Runes ecosystems.
Why it matters
This initiative challenges the established relay policies of Bitcoin Core, highlighting ongoing tensions between network standardization and the growth of data-heavy blockchain applications.
Leonidas, co-founder of the Runestone project and one of the most prominent figures in Bitcoin's Ordinals and Runes ecosystem, said Friday he is starting an open source Bitcoin client called DOG Mode.
It would lift two of the limits set by Bitcoin Core, the software that runs on the large majority of Bitcoin's nodes. One caps the largest transaction a node will pass along to its peers, while the other sets the smallest amount of bitcoin an output can hold.
Consensus rules define what makes a block valid, and breaking them splits a node off the network. Relay policy is separate and softer, as it governs what an individual node chooses to forward to its neighbours, and Core's version rejects transactions it deems "non-standard" even when they are perfectly valid under consensus.
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