Thanks, you've given me place to start researching, because there are a few things that are not clear to me. Like when you mention "non monetary transactions" in a block. What does that exactly entail? Because from what I understood in your post, these transactions are keeping the UTXO spammers at bay by outbidding them. I know governments have access to the money printer, so I understand the theoretical point as to why this wouldn't stop them.
Also, some argue that spam is subjective, I personally don't think that's entirely the case, I think there are things that are clearly spam to the majority of people. But anyways, at least to a knots supporter, would your statement read to them as "spam is keeping UTXO spam at bay"?
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It’s not just cost, it is time. Nodes will eventually need 32gigs of ram. The question is does that happen in 2 years or 10? A determined attacker today would be competing with a lot of people for block space and so they wouldn’t be able to fill every block with lots of utxos, some blocks would be full of large data blobs and few utxos.
In 10 years a low end laptop will have 32gigs of ram so no one will care. In 2 years a 32 gig machine is likely a server grade set up.