Murch on Nostr: Witness data is not stored in the UTXO set. It's part of the input data. OP_RETURN ...
Witness data is not stored in the UTXO set. It's part of the input data. OP_RETURN data weighs 4 wu per byte. Blocks are limited to 4,000,000 weight, so a block full of OP_RETURN data is cannot be much more than 1MB.
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