It's more important for the cost of running a #Bitcoin node to stay low than for the cost of on-chain transactions to stay low.
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Sure, but we could double the size of storage for nodes and it would still be the same price it was 5 years ago.
So there is a point where you can definitely increase the size of the chain without issue.
Just bc you can do something
Does not mean you should
yes low cost of verification is critical. This is what the Big Blockers never understood.
Serious question: why run a node if you don’t/can’t own a UTXO?