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Topic: Is Mastercoin bloating the blockchain and what we can do about it? - page 4. (Read 10263 times)

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Ron Gross
Let's create a healthy, constructive discussion here about the question whether Mastercoin "bloats" the blockchain, and what are some good technical solutions to that.

Please stop!

You are creating enormous amounts of  nonredeemable UTXO.  This kind of usage undermines the scalability of Bitcoin because you are pushing data storage into the UTXO set and not merely into the transaction history. The UTXO set must be rapidly available for validation and can not be pruned unlike the rest of the blockchain.  Currently pruning yields 50:1 compression (and improving) of the space required to run a full node. The addition of never-redeemable outputs undermines that.


Do you believe that "Bitcoin" cares about how people use it?
Bitcoin scalability is a definite challenge. We should tackle that challenge as early as possible, instead of nicely asking people to only use it in specific ways.

Willet is open to discuss better, more efficient ways to encode Mastercoin transactions into the blockchain.

gmaxwell, do you belong to the school of thinking that categorizes SatoshiDice as spam?
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