Fun fact, since Taproot launched on the 14th Nov 2021, cat JPEG inscriptions have bloated the UTXO set from 4GB to 12GB.
N.B. The UTXO set is the list of coins every node runner must keep to verify the validity of each transaction.
In the future, if you choose to prune your node, you must carry this data at least, in order to verify transactions.
This is only going to get worse.
mike
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2025-05-09 10:26:48
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