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Ignotus Peverell
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@@ -18,7 +18,7 @@ As explained in the previous section, thanks to the MimbleWimble transaction and
Pushing that further, between blocks, most outputs end up being spent sooner or later by another input. So *all spent outputs can be safely removed*. And the whole blockchain can be stored, downloaded and fully verified in just a few gigabytes or less (assuming a number of transactions similar to bitcoin).
What this all means is the Grin blockchain scales with the number of users (unspent outputs), not the number of transactions.
What this all means is the Grin blockchain scales with the number of users (unspent outputs), not the number of transactions. At the moment, there is one caveat to that: a small piece of data (called a kernel, over about 100 bytes) needs to stay around for each transaction. But we're working on optimizing that as well.
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