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Dr. Fernando Morales · 5w
This was enlightening for me, thank you. I'm not technical, so forgive me if I ask something dumb, but what stops a government from spamming the UTXO set right now and kicking plebs out?
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Theoretically nothing, but practically it is because there is demand for block space from “non monetary transactions. “ Witness data outbids the utxo spammers. Under a bip110 a nation state could spend around 160 million and make 16gb nodes wrecked in 6 months.
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Dr. Fernando Morales · 5w
Thanks, you've given me place to start researching, because there are a few things that are not clear to me. Like when you mention "non monetary transactions" in a block. What does that exactly entail? Because from what I understood in your post, these transactions are keeping the UTXO spammers at b...