Fact check: mostly false ❎ The performance bottle neck as applied to UTXO set occurs during IBD. Validating an incoming block immediately after rebooting your computer would happen before RAM cache of UTXO set would be made. But this has negligible effect on anything other than Initial Block Download.

Unpopular opinion: recent bitcoin transaction spam that stuffs data in non-provably unspendable outputs will require bitcoin software to partition UTXO set in to probably spendable stuff stored in memory and probably not spendable stored on disk. In short, bitcoin can’t keep using RAM as a disk cache for entire UTXO set and eventually code will be forced to reflect real world constraints.

Well, I for one would gladly put 's boobs on my chest 🥳🍾

Kinda, yeah. But moar ram isn’t the answer. Or at least it’s not the smartest answer.

Exactly. Spamming UTXO set will cause more frequent dumping of RAM cache to disk which takes a long time…I don’t have a numerical estimate but you can estimate it yourself…try repeatedly halving the value of dbcache= in bitcoin.conf and time how long each run takes for initial block download…start at dbcache = 90% of your RAM…I’d bet you’d see a increase in sync time below a certain level and minimal improvement in sync time above a certain level of dbcache.

lol…it mostly matters during IBD…it’s like setting dbcache parameter in bitcoin.conf to smaller and smaller values…

For bootstrapping a new node, teired storage allowing spammy transactions to stay on disk and not cached in RAM will fix the UTXO set bloat problem encountered during IBD.

Another Hell thread? Well, it’s hard to argue or be unhappy about boobs, so there is that on the + side.

Welcome to the Wild West my friend

Hypothesis: taxation determines rate of return…but not in the sense you may think. Maybe , just maybe, they want interest rate on bonds to be high because interest is taxed at a higher grate than long term capital gains…capital gains are taxed at 20-28% for the money that matters (lower AGIs pay 10-20% for cap gains), but interest and dividends are taxed at 37% for high income earners (0-37% for lower income earners). Maybe they want to have high interest rates to boost taxation…until unrealized capital gains taxes become a thing, this is the only way to steal money other than inflation: propping up yield.

Short video shows sad things. Is there a longer video?