BitcoinStu on Nostr: spamming the UTXO set is absolutely bad for the network because it requires every ...
spamming the UTXO set is absolutely bad for the network because it requires every single node running on the network to maintain that set. This drives up the minimum hardware required to run a node and validate the network, which increases the cost of validation.
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