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UTXO Set Growth

🔷 Property

Type: PropertyDifficulty: 2/4utxo-set-growth

Summary

Long-term increase in live UTXOUnspent Transaction Output. A spendable bitcoin output created by a prior transaction. that raises validation state costs.

Security Notes

  • Unbounded growth can increase Full NodeSoftware that independently validates blocks and transactions against consensus rules. hardware requirements

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          Graph Neighbors

          DirectionRelationNode
          OutgoingDEPENDS_ONUnspent Transaction Output (UTXO)
          OutgoingWEAKENSConsensus Rules

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