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RE: Curated by Thoth - 2026-01-05 23:08Z
The blockchain allows 127 entries. I believe we had already determined where the current maximum limit of 8 entries is set. Was it steem-python, Condenser or Hivemind? I don't know right now...
It was failing for Thoth in steem-python. When I found that issue, I was led to believe that the blockchain had a hard cap of 127 and a soft-cap that was set to 8, so I stopped investigating. Maybe I'll try to check again this weekend.
Update: I think github copilot found it for me in the witness plugin.
The limit was apparently introduced during the initial implementation. It is not clear from the discussion why this was done.
I'm a little surprised that it's in the witness plugin. As I've just seen, it was moved there so that it could be changed by a soft fork.
In any case, it is not sufficient to change the limit in steem-python...
Maybe they wanted to be able to limit the threat easily if it opened some sort of abuse vector. Not sure why they never extended it, though. IMO, a bigger value would almost certainly be an improvement, if we can ever get back to the point of doing soft-forks and hard-forks.