So revert the witness discount AND capping op return seems like a reasonable compromise. Dust moves to op return…but doesnt allow large data sets embedded in op…its a limited capacity dumpster. I...
Without an easy place for spam to go
It will go into more damaging parts of the system. The chain being less utilized will make the cost of a utxo spam attack more feasible. Rapid Growth of the utxo set will outstrip the normal configuration of cheap node hardware. The doomsday scenario for bitcoin is that a 16gb ram node can’t sync. All to save a couple dozen gigs a year of hard drive space. Makes no sense to me unless fed capture is the goal.
It will go into more damaging parts of the system. The chain being less utilized will make the cost of a utxo spam attack more feasible. Rapid Growth of the utxo set will outstrip the normal configuration of cheap node hardware. The doomsday scenario for bitcoin is that a 16gb ram node can’t sync. All to save a couple dozen gigs a year of hard drive space. Makes no sense to me unless fed capture is the goal.