Following last Friday's $19 billion crypto liquidation cascade, experts argue that traditional market circuit breakers would be ineffective or potentially harmful in decentralized finance systems.

MicroStrategy's Michael Saylor triggered widespread discussion by reposting a video that ended with a 3-second call to "Run Knots" - a Bitcoin node software opposing the upcoming OP_RETURN changes. The controversy centers on Bitcoin Core v30's planned October update that will expand OP_RETURN data capacity from 80 bytes to 100,000 bytes.