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Board Development & Technical Discussion
Re: Making Bitcoin and its Forks Turing Complete
by
n0nce
on 04/04/2022, 08:50:19 UTC
the great #satoshi seemed to have no problems with storing our history on blockchains.

 “The Times 03/Jan/2009 Chancellor on brink of second bailout for banks.”  
You do realise this had a very, very specific, useful and actually necessary purpose, though? Like, proving there was no pre-mine?
I'm not sure it's a good idea to store data on the blockchain by putting it into the UTXO set.
Using your numbers, Ripple and Greenpeace with their $5M anti-Bitcoin budget could have increased the UTXO set size to over 500GB over the course of roughly a year.
I understand that even if you don't put a tool out there that easily allows people to bloat like this, they can code it themselves. But it's still a pretty considerable attack vector if we see how much money is splurged on anti-Bitcoin campaigns these days.