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Episode 72: Inscriptions

Bitcoin Explained - The Technical Side of Bitcoin

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Why Is the UTXO Set Growing a Lot?

The way that we're doing it was causing the so-called UTXO set to grow a lot. So, opportune was a mitigation of that by saying, okay, please use this mechanism called opportune and we'll explain how that works. But then developers also said, please don't do too much data at once. They set a limit of 80 kilobytes essentially, right? 80 bytes. And then you can use a lot of data in the blockchain section,. In practice, in order to do a lots of data, you need not just to have these 80bytes, but you need to make a whole transaction - which has a bunch of overhead on top of

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