There is no 100% in anything in this life that I know of except death. So the goal is not to erase spam 100%. The goal is to disincentivize those that have dominated the increase in UTXO size so that it stays as small as possible for as long as possible. I can’t speak for everyone, I can only speak for me.
I am looking 40 to 80 years out. At this rate the RAM requirements on computers will need to be 128GB to process the blockchain when it quadruples from here. Which means my children will need to have crazy amounts of computing power to run a node. Not to mention that those around the world that don’t have the access to capital that we do in the U.S. won’t be to run a node as easily.
I asked AI and they say that when Eligius put…
*"Eligius )Benedictus Sanguis eius pretiosissimus.." into block 139,904 on the chain: Bitcoin block requires 0 extra data if you are a miner putting it in the coinbase, but it requires 52 bytes if you use an OP_RETURN script in a standard user transaction.
So the 2 types of spam are located in different locations with different purposes.
What Eligius wrote was in the same space that every miner uses to put their pool name when they mine a block. So no matter which miner does this there is a dedicated space for this which adds no more data storage on nodes.
When users send a transaction that they have to hide it in an op if, op false, op return, ect. They are making everyone store more data on their nodes for free and they are not pushing bitcoin as money forward.
@Rich Nost
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