OP_RETURN
OP_RETURN appears in 19 analyzed articles across the measured technology press. Recent coverage is steady, counting every mention over recent months. This page shows the public snapshot: movement, coverage mix, recent sources, and what drove the latest change.
Compass measures press coverage, not OP_RETURN's product quality, business performance, or market value.
Counting every mention, coverage of OP_RETURN is steady — it appears in 19 analyzed articles across the technology press.
What OP_RETURN coverage is made of over time: story type, claim stage as reported, and press framing. This measures the coverage, not the product.
Across 14 classified coverage items, one item is 7.1 percentage points — read the shares below as the shape of a small sample, not as figures precise to the point.
Story type and claim stage are shares of the 14 classified coverage items in this window.
How to read this
The stream below stacks each month's coverage by the lens you choose: Tone (how the press frames the story — promotional, skeptical, critical, or neutral), Story type (launches, funding, lawsuits, partnerships…), or Stage — how far the reported claim has gone: speculation → announcement → launch → results.
Taller bands mean more coverage that month; the dots beneath mark notable non‑neutral events. Every signal is sourced and dated.
How this is counted — why the article numbers differ
19 articles mention OP_RETURN across the corpus. The coverage make-up above is measured on the 12 of them that were read into dated, classified coverage items — and one article can produce more than one item, because story type, claim stage and framing are read separately.
- report 52 bitcoin were moved from the Coldcard hack to a recovery trust address carrying an OP_RETURN message.
- report The attackers negotiated publicly by embedding messages in Bitcoin transactions using OP_RETURN.
As of 8 Oct 2026 · corpus coverage 94% · 358,204 articles. Correlational & coverage-limited.
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Full history & coverage trailMonth-by-month make-up & every cited source
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