#asknostr
When I synced my node things slowed down considerably as I got further in - is it the UTXOs count upticking or is it the number of transactions per block? Elaborate plz.
Discussion
# of tx per block increased over time
It's kind of both but mostly the latter. The amount of data per block increases pretty massively as you approach the current block. It's common for more modern blocks to have several thousand transactions for every single block, where this was not the case in the early days.
Fair. After I had synced fully I was very silly and executed a 'Repair' command on my node that essentially reverified UTXOs. This process also hit a significant slowdown at about 80% to completion, which I'd wager correlates with the spike in UTXOs in early 2023.