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Rusty Russell | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 How did this "spam" affect you, if you're not complaining about fees?
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BitcoinStu | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 It bloats the UTXO set increasing the cost of validation, among other things
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Rusty Russell | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag 
 This is nothing to do with Taproot or Segwit. You are very confused.
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BitcoinStu | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I have been a professional software engineer for 25 years and studying bitcoin specifically for 7.  I can assure you I understand the details of the protocol quite well.  If you do not understand how the witness section is abused to produce spam then you should study bitcoin more deeply.  I am not your tutor.
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techfeudalist | 5 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 If you have to ask, you don’t understand the second order impacts on plebs. My tor node is incredibly slow now. I can’t run it all the time and it’s not a fast computer. I sync the node when I need to broadcast a transaction. In my last sync I waited weeks.