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What happened @jimmysong [Spoken audio]: UTXO spam right like if you're just polluting the UTXO set It's a particular type of spam and they're they're different levels to spamming. What is spam right? So I think it's anything that's non-monetary, but any non-monetary transaction is spam you personally and selfishly What is the difference between someone making an ad and someone sending money from Alice to Bob? How does this affect you personally differently in the Bitcoin network? I'm running a node so it uses more resources if the spam gets through and add is almost by definition spam You don't want to see an ad in your inbox. I don't read the upper turns on every transaction That is not a thing Bitcoin facilitates other apps around Bitcoin facilitate. I'm not reading those I'm not getting that I don't read every spam email It does sort of fill up my my inbox right like how does it increase the resources of your node? So I have to validate those transactions, keep it in your mempool and so on if you receive them. Those are actual costs to my hardware, depending on how robust my hardware might be. And if it does make it into a block then that's also hard drive storage. That's downloading it again if I didn't see it before. It's those costs and that's stuff that I would rather not have. From your personal selfish perspective and your node, the difference between something facilitating a lightning closure or someone else, Alice and Bob, making a payment, I think that the difference is mostly feels. Well, you might say feels or you can say principle. That would assume sort of like a utilitarian morality from me, right? If I in principle don't want the Bitcoin network to get more non-monetary, then restricting those is something that's in my interest from a moral and principled perspective and not feels right sticking to my principles is actually worthwhile. Like I don't have to enable spam and let's have a minimum amount on outputs so that we don't enable this kind of very abusive usage of Bitcoin. I agree with that right. Like I think I think that's something that every node runner should do is discriminate and stand on principle.
