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When the UTXO in the cache is full, what strategy is used to replace one UTXO with another in the cache?

The UTXO set is stored on the disk, but some UTXOs are also stored in the cache. When validating a transaction, you need to query the UTXO pointed to by the input of the transaction. First, you go to ...
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What is the memory usage for checking transaction inputs?

Whenever a transaction is received by a node, the node verifies its validity. To that end, it checks for each transaction input whether that input is part of the UTXO set. It is my understanding that ...
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