waxwing on Nostr: What if the next big war in bitcoin is not *exactly* op_return or inscriptions or ...
What if the next big war in bitcoin is not *exactly* op_return or inscriptions or even just "spam", but, related: the "confiscation war" which will be about whether we can ever make outputs unspendable: sub 1000 sat outputs that bloated the utxo set so much at one extreme, and above 10btc outputs with exposed pubkeys from 10++ years ago, at the other end. There are a lot of influential voices advocating for things like this.
Credit to Robin Linus in that in this thread:
https://delvingbitcoin.org/t/dust-expiry-clean-the-utxo-set-from-spam/1707 his second message imagines an ingenious way to *not* confiscate. Thread is most definitely worth a detailed read.
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