So apparently some people are freaking out over #Bitcoin #Stamps, an attack on Bitcoin that somehow justifies not growing the chain size but the UTXO set which wouldn't be easy to prune but worse - would be kept in RAM, not only on disk.
In the past there were suggestions to take UTXO size into account for fee calculation - if your TX spends 20 UTXOs into two new UTXOs, your TX gets priority even without a fee but of course with good will alone, big miners don't forego the higher fee for themselves to reduce RAM demand for all. Classic tragedy of the commons.
As of now there is no sudden spike in UTXO size and I wonder why people are talking about this just now. Did attackers find a way to trick others into paying for this attack because art or something?