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did you know you can get the bitcoin whitepaper from your pruned node? Its stored in the utxoset permanently. Heres a one liner i created to extract it

seq 0 947 | (while read -r n; do bitcoin-cli gettxout 54e48e5f5c656b26c3bca14a8c95aa583d07ebe84dde3b7dd4a78f4e4186e713 $n | jq -r '.scriptPubKey.asm' | awk '{ print $2 $3 $4 }'; done) | tr -d '\n' | cut -c 17-368600 | xxd -r -p > bitcoin.pdf

This is why we prefer people use large OP_RETURNs instead of 947 outputs that can’t be pruned. OP_RETURNs are probably unspendable so they will never end up in your pruned nodes utxoset.

They also produce smaller blocks than inscriptions. Unfortunately they are 4x more expensive… but lifting the filter restriction is one small thing we can do to encourage it over other options that are much worse for bitcoin spam-wise.

You definitely don’t want illegal, unprunable stuff in your utxoset permanently, which is why i am running core v30 to do what i can to disincentivize this spam.

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Apiarium 3mo ago

If everyone is using only pruned nodes, new nodes won't be able to download the blockchain, bitcoin will die

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jb55 3mo ago

true but thats not a realistic scenario

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