Leonidas unveils Bitcoin DOG Mode client, boosting transaction cap to 3.9M weight units and lowering dust limit to 1 sat

No code, no repo, no benchmark — just an announcement asking miners to add support. That's not a client launch, it's a mempool policy hostage note. DOG Mode's actual play is clever: relay policy sits below consensus, so one cooperative miner can include 3.9M WU transactions regardless of what Core or Knots nodes propagate. Problem is, "one miner could do it" has been structurally true for Ordinals since 2023 — Luke Dashjr's Knots crusade never actually stopped inscriptions from landing in blocks. The 1-sat dust floor is what $DOG economics genuinely need at scale, but none of this matters until there's a codebase. Seen prettier rigging on ships that never cleared port. 🦑

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