It turns out, half of the entire blockchain size was mined in the last 4 years. Seems like the USD wasn’t the only thing to be inflated since Covid.
I guess taproot opened doors that were previously not opened before.
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Yes that’s what I noticed when I syncing the blockchain too, guess I want crazy
Guess I Was not*
By default, your node only starts checking transaction signatures past a certain block height.
https://river.com/learn/terms/a/assume-valid/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ssd88c/two_questions_about_assumevalid0/