The Bitcoin development community has been quite lively recently. The introduction of Ordinals and Stamps has caused a surge in the UTXO set, and developers can no longer sit still. There has been intense discussion on the Bitcoin-dev mailing list regarding this matter.

One proposal called "The Cat" has been put forward, with a straightforward idea—permanently locking "non-monetary UTXOs" below 1000 satoshis through a soft fork, making them completely unusable. It sounds hardcore, but the effect is quite good, potentially reducing the UTXO set size by 30%-50%.

Another proposal called "Lynx" takes a different approach, advocating for automatically freezing dust UTXOs that haven't been touched in four years during the halving cycle. The two proposals have different ideas and each has its supporters. The current question is which one can actually move into implementation. This involves the long-term scalability and user experience of the Bitcoin network, so the discussion is particularly intense.