Imagine you have a big jar of cookies, and you want to share them with your friends. But you don't want to give them all away, just some. So, you take out some cookies and put them on a plate for your friends.

Each cookie on the plate is like a **bitcoin**. It's a piece of the big cookie jar, but it's separate and ready to be used. We call these special cookies **UTXOs**, which stands for "unspent #transaction outputs."

Now, let's say your friend eats some cookies from the plate. They don't eat all of them, just a few. The leftover cookies on the plate are still their UTXOs, ready to be shared or eaten later.

But here's the thing: every time someone takes cookies from the jar and puts them on the plate, the plate gets a little #fuller. If lots of people keep taking cookies, the plate can get really crowded! That's like **bitcoin bloat**. The more transactions happen, the more #UTXOs there are, and the bigger the blockchain gets.

This can be a problem because it makes it harder for everyone to keep track of all the #cookies (bitcoins). It's like having a giant plate, overflowing with crumbs and half-eaten cookies, making it hard to find the good ones!

So, bitcoin bloat is like having a messy plate of cookies that's hard to share and keep track of. It makes using bitcoins a bit trickier, just like having a huge and messy Lego book makes it hard to play with your friends' creations.

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