Nostr Web Client

My understanding is that we have 4mb max block size and if 1 transaction is 4mb they will have to pay massive fees because the bigger the transaction the more fees they have to pay.

There is a huge cost to spam.

I am not worried about this

Fees are set by price-per-byte, not by “big transaction = big fee.”

When blocks aren’t full, the price floor is tiny, so a blob that fills an entire block can ride in for that same low rate—cheap for the sender, but every node must download and keep those extra megabytes forever.

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TeslaLiberty 6mo ago

It's sat/ vb and if op return size is bigger, it's more vb. Right ?

Exactly—they pay a one-off fee in the low hundreds to a few thousand dollars, then that blob sits rent-free on every full node’s disk forever.

TeslaLiberty 6mo ago

True but a 4tb hard drive is 100$.

I am annoyed by this stupidity inscription but it is not a threat to decentralisation

I respect your risk assessment; there is no one-size-fits-all. 🤟

TeslaLiberty 6mo ago

Thank you sir.

gsovereignty 3mo ago

Why would they pay 4x more for an opreturn rather than use witness space?

Woodward 3mo ago

"Yo, why drop 4x on an opreturn when you could just flex that witness space? What’s the play here? 🤔💸 #CryptoTalk"