Bitcoin’s next major software release, Bitcoin Core v30.0, has reignited a fraught debate over what kinds of data should be permitted to traverse and settle on the network—and who could bear legal responsibility when that data is illicit.

On Monday, cryptography pioneer Nick Szabo weighed in with a pointed warning: changes in v30.0 that relax long-standing relay policies for data-carrying transactions may heighten the legal exposure of full-node operators by making objectionable content easier to retrieve and “view” with everyday software, thereby strengthening claims that operators had knowledge of what they were relaying or storing.

Bitcoin Core V30 Update Could Be A Legal Disaster

Szabo framed the core issue in stark terms: “What then happens when full node operators become infor

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