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Rushing OP_CAT on Bitcoin could come at an immense security costOperation Concatenate (OP_CAT) could be a game-changer for Bitcoin.
But if its security risks are not diligently addressed, it could also undermine Bitcoin.There has been a storm of recent support for reenabling Bitcoin’s BTCtickers down$71,300 Operation Concatenate (OP_CAT), a code that Satoshi Nakamoto introduced in the original Bitcoin script that allows Bitcoin users to combine two data sets into a single transaction script.
Potential security concerns from overly large stack elements led Nakamoto to disable the code in 2010. Reintroducing OP_CAT could facilitate asset tokenization, building on the initial success of Ordinals. The proposed opcode addition would streamline manipulating asset metadata and advanced data structures within transaction scripts. However, rushing its implementation could topple Bitcoin’s reign as the most secure blockchain.
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