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21 sats \ 2 replies \ @leaf 5h \ parent \ on: Peter Wuille post about dropping OP_RETURN limit bitcoin
Right now, spam isn't meaningfully increasing the utxo set at all - in fact blocks are often not full.
And in the future we'll probably have something like utreexo that means the average person doesn't need to store the whole utxo set. I think in another 2-3 decades we'll all be running nodes on our phones.
In my opinion, if you're concerned for the poorest of the world, forget their ability to afford a node, and focus on their ability to own a utxo. That's where I'd say the real rub is.
With social media, it takes seconds to convince the masses of anything.
It's convinced you and many others that the vast majority of bitcoin devs are corrupt. Now that will genuinely hurt bitcoin development, when you make devs choose between death threats and slander or a cushy, well-paid corp job. No good deed goes unpunished, unfortunately.
Right now, spam isn't meaningfully increasing the utxo set at all - in fact blocks are often not full.
If you only consider size and ignore how much compute it takes to sync the chain after all the recent spam, we can't really have a meaningful conversation.
In my opinion, if you're concerned for the poorest of the world, forget their ability to afford a node, and focus on their ability to own a utxo. That's where I'd say the real rub is.
Thanks for admitting that you don't care about node decentralization.
It's convinced you and many others
Social media didn't convince me of anything, the communication and actions of core devs did.