My thinking is as follows:
1. UTXO bloat (4 GB -> 12 GB in the last year?) has already increased the growth and hardware requirements (I had to replace my Pi4 8 GB)
2. Bitcoin core has done nothing to fight against it.
3. Now they want to invite more spammers and it's not going to help with Problem1 because it is financially wise to put data in witness than OP_RETURN.
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Thanks, let's dive in, shall we?
What issue were you experiencing with the Pi4?
I'm asking because there is a common misunderstanding that the entire UTXO set needs to fit into RAM, but that is not the case. The UTXO set is mostly stopped on disk. You only need a couple gigs of RAM for Bitcoin Core to run decently, although more is certainly helpful. UTXO set growth means slower IBD and generally more disk reads during validation, but it's a graceful degradation, not a cliff.