Bitcoin UTXO Set Swells With 96K Fake-Address Outputs
Bitquery's block-by-block census puts the cost in numbers: 96,231 unspendable outputs now live in node state, while 4.4M OP_RETURN bytes never had to.
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Bitquery's block-by-block census puts the cost in numbers: 96,231 unspendable outputs now live in node state, while 4.4M OP_RETURN bytes never had to.
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