The vice president of the mining pool OCEAN announced his withdrawal from the industry in protest of the changes to OP_RETURN

ChainCatcher news, according to Protos, the vice president of the mining pool OCEAN, Jason Hughes, announced that he will sell all his Bitcoin and exit the industry in protest of the recent OP_RETURN change decision.

Hughes expressed extreme disappointment with the decision made by Bitcoin core developers, stating, "52 days ago, Bitcoin core developers at least pretended to have principles," and mentioned that he has "exhausted his energy in this struggle." Hughes warned, "The qualities that make Bitcoin unique no longer exist."

Previously, it was reported that Bitcoin core developers plan to implement the OPRETURN change in October, which will no longer filter OPRETURN outputs containing large amounts of non-financial data. This change will increase the default data carrier limit from the current 80 bytes to nearly 4MB.