A controversial Bitcoin development proposal to permanently eliminate Ordinals inscriptions and Bitcoin Stamps has sparked fierce debate within the developer community.
The draft, known as “The Cat,” would mark millions of dust-sized outputs containing NFT data as permanently unspendable through a consensus-level soft fork.
The proposal targets what its author, Claire Ostrom, describes as an unprecedented explosion in Bitcoin’s UTXO set.
Between 2009 and early 2023, the UTXO database grew gradually to roughly 80-90 million entries.

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