Bit it increases the cost of running a node for a node-runner who wants to have an archival node.
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Opt out of it in your node
High tx costs will deter them further from “spamming”.
But I’m of the opinion a valid transaction is a valid transaction, fuck personal feelings
True, but as you pointed out, stopping spam is not an option. The junk addresses that bloat the UTXO set are always an option, as is witness script data, which, while pruneable, also increases the UTXO set.
So what we’re discussing here are different ways to reduce the impact on node operators of an action transactors have many ways to perform.