What’s the defense against a nation state actor spamming the UTXO set?
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Cost I guess.
They have a money printer
I agree, but they’d have to buy the corn and then dust the utxo set. That would presumably get pretty expensive. I dont know I haven’t done the math on what the smallest UTXO you could make to cover fees to burn the utxos. Probably could do it for a while and burn a lot of coins but by the end the price would probably be considerably higher.
nation states can't even put their shit together and you want them to attack UTXO set?
And what is a defense that actually works?
This is the real questions we should be asking, not those about OP codes.
With dust?
Monero.
LOL
Fees
What if they have a money printer?
Then price will go up quickly. That’s true for all things, houses are expensive because of the money printer but it does not negate the fact that free markets and prices are the best way to deal with scarcity.
How does price going up stop a spam attack on the UTXO set?
If it is consensus valid then it is valid. The alternative solutions are worse than fees.
Spam is a loaded term
How does price going up stop an attack on the UTXO set?
Valid transactions are not an attack. They will have to buy the bitcoin. In doing so they will destroy their paper currencies.
Also The bitcoin is divisible it will withstand this so called attack
How does price going up stop an actor with a money printer from intentionally increasing the UTXO set with valid transactions?
When did using utxos become an attack on Bitcoin?
You don’t think Bitcoin can withstand central banks? What’s even the point then?
Thinking governments printing money to buy Bitcoin is an attack on Bitcoin doesn’t make sense. It with increase the fiat price of bitcoin. It will destroy the fiat currencies. Bitcoin wins.
They were during convid 
A larger UTXO set increases hardware requirements for nodes, which decreases node decentralization. Pruned nodes don’t fix this.
Correct that is utxo usage. And the beautiful thing about bitcoin is you can not censor it.