Self cleanup of utxos when they grow

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Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
backend, blockchain, performance

Research direction

Start by locating the coinchooser and the wallet code that loads the full UTXO set, then trace how coin selection affects wallet operations. Define the cleanup threshold and behavior with the maintainer; done should prevent large UTXO lists from being loaded for every operation while preserving correct coin selection.

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Description

area: wallet consider soon

We need the coinchooser to be smarter and clean up large lists of UTXOs after X amount (maybe 1k to start?). If not, this bogs down all wallet operations since it needs to load the entire uxto set on each one.

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