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Does someone want to explain to me how OP_RETURNs increase the blockchain growth, hardware requirements, or otherwise increase the cost of running a node? I keep seeing that concern, and that seems co...

marcan0 @marcan0 1747789714

It’s a totally valid concern if you’ve never run a node and are blissfully unaware that you can just prune stuff

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MethFred · 44w

most spam is still required to be stored, such as the utxo bloat. pruning means you can't verify your own txs if they are far back enough and we need full nodes to bootstrap new nodes.