null-data-transaction.yaml

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    title_max_40_characters_no_formatting: Null Data (OP_RETURN) Transaction

    summary_max_255_characters_no_formatting: >
        A transaction type relayed and mined by default in Bitcoin Core
        0.9.0 and later that adds arbitrary data to a provably
        unspendable pubkey script that full nodes don't have to store in
        their UTXO database.

    synonyms_shown_in_glossary_capitalize_first_letter:
        - Null data transaction
        - OP_RETURN transaction
        - Data carrier transaction

optional:
    synonyms_and_pluralizations_not_shown_in_glossary:
        - null data transactions
        - op_return transactions
        - data carrier transactions

    not_to_be_confused_with_capitalize_first_letter:
        - OP_RETURN (an opcode used in one of the outputs in an OP_RETURN transaction)

    links_html_or_markdown_style_capitalize_first_letter:
        - "[Null data transaction](/en/developer-guide#term-null-data) --- Developer Guide"
        - "[Pull request implement null data transactions](https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/pull/2738) --- GitHub"

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