If we add a boolean flag or op that marks a UTXO as instantly unspendable and give a slight discount for doing so, or give a discount for otherwise making it probably unspendable while still permitting the spam, we may eliminate UTXO set bloat completely. How to do that while still making spam costly idk, it seems you would still need to differentiate between spam and nonspam on an individual level and simply apply filters. Filters that add a price to each individual kind of arbitrary storage identified, instead of just rejecting them no matter the price, would allow market pricing for storage along different use cases, which would likely offer a more predictable way to disincentivize it, while likely avoiding incentivizing overgrown slipstream networks.
Now perhaps the best way to incentivize everyone to use provably unspendable UTXOs for what arbitrary storage they do use is to lower the price for OP_RETURN relative to the other types of data. And again, filters can be added by individuals to add market prices for different usages of this and witness data alike.
Just some thoughts.
Kevin's Bacon
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2025-05-02 16:25:15
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