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Episode 72: Inscriptions

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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Is There a Cost to Running a Bitcoin Node?

So if my Bitcoin node sees one of these transactions, as it has by now, because these transactions now exist, they just see basically a valid transaction and then they see a bunch. My node sees a bunch of data in the witness, but it just figures that data is completely irrelevant. And I'm not even going to remember it because my node is a prune node. It forgets blocks older than a couple of days and it's also not in my UTXO set. So my node after a couple of day, it doesn't even remember that it was there. Yeah. If you have a full archival node, so one that keeps all this history, you will remember

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