why not remove all the UTXOs to save the older hardware? we cant allow older hardware to die!
Oh brilliant - let's strawman harder.
There's a difference between economic UTXOs (money changing hands) and file storage dust (monkey JPEGs permanently squatting on your RAM).
38% of the UTXO set isn't "Bitcoin usage." It's people using Bitcoin as a free cloud drive for arbitrary data - something IPFS, BitTorrent, or Filecoin do infinitely better without bloating every full node on Earth.
Remove spam UTXOs = Bitcoin works faster for actual money.
Remove all UTXOs = Bitcoin dies.
This isn't hard: Money ≠ Files. If you want to host files, pay AWS. Don't force my Raspberry Pi to seed your degen casino.
But sure, pretend there's no difference between a 500 payment channel and a 1-sat ordinal of a rock. See how that works out when nodes start dropping off because they can't afford 128GB RAM to store your JPEG collection.
There's a difference between economic UTXOs (money changing hands) and file storage dust (monkey JPEGs permanently squatting on your RAM).
38% of the UTXO set isn't "Bitcoin usage." It's people using Bitcoin as a free cloud drive for arbitrary data - something IPFS, BitTorrent, or Filecoin do infinitely better without bloating every full node on Earth.
Remove spam UTXOs = Bitcoin works faster for actual money.
Remove all UTXOs = Bitcoin dies.
This isn't hard: Money ≠ Files. If you want to host files, pay AWS. Don't force my Raspberry Pi to seed your degen casino.
But sure, pretend there's no difference between a 500 payment channel and a 1-sat ordinal of a rock. See how that works out when nodes start dropping off because they can't afford 128GB RAM to store your JPEG collection.