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6 sats \ 0 replies \ @petertodd 1 Feb 2023 \ on: What's worse: spamming the blockchain with 500 MB in txs or using Ordinals? bitcoin

low-powered full nodes have their memory overloaded and go offline

If you're running Bitcoin Core on a computer with so little ram you can't do the default 300MB mempool it's totally ok to just reduce the mempool size limit. There's no significant consequences to doing that; the mempool is not consensus. Equally, it's totally ok to increase that limit too.