Pushdata Opcodes
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The pushdata opcodes push the next bytes of data onto the stack. Opcodes 1-75 simply push the next bytes of data onto the stack without a requirement to specify how many bytes to push.
OP_PUSHDATA1
OP_PUSHDATA1 is used to push data of a length from 75 to 255 bytes onto the stack.
OP_PUSHDATA2
OP_PUSHDATA2 is used to push data of length from 256 bytes up to 64 KB onto the stack.
OP_PUSHDATA4
OP_PUSHDATA2 is used to push data of length from 64,001 bytes up to 4.3 GB onto the stack.