Up until early 2023 the UTXO set was less than 5 GB, and that took 14 years.
Now it's pushing 12 GB, and these 7 GB of growth in the last 20 months are mostly unspendable dust outputs from inscription spam.
Basically running a node got noticeably more costly for no good reason (mind you, the UTXO set is unprunable and nodes try to keep it in RAM as much as possible).
It's not beautiful nor wonderful.
Up until early 2023 the UTXO set was less than 5 GB, and that took 14 years.
Now it's pushing 12 GB, and these 7 GB of growth in the last 20 months are mostly unspendable dust outputs from inscription spam.
Basically running a node got noticeably more costly for no good reason (mind you, the UTXO set is unprunable and nodes try to keep it in RAM as much as possible).