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Tbh, I've watched this before when learning about the blocksize war... Rewatching it doesn't make me think I won't be able to run a node or wouldn't want to do it in 50 years.

I think the biggest obstacle in running a node will always be the learning. If somebody can give me a practical reason why I won't be able to, or why bitcoin will stop working - and I'm living in very suboptimal circumstances in a western country - I'll start to worry about this myself.

As far as I can tell, and without having experienced any economic benefit of holding bitcoin yet, nothing is stopping me from running a node for the next 100 years in my current circumstances.

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Léo 2y ago

I don’t worry about myself either I have a server totally allocated to bitcoin with 32 gb of ram and a 2TB ssd (I can literally put the UTXOs set in my ram) I’m especially worried about small nodes like raspberry pi 4.

I also asked myself the question how far a raspberry can go, whether at the IDB level (it takes a week at the moment) or just to stay synchronized with the network unfortunately it is always unanswered.

https://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/119019/utxos-set-size-for-small-node

_Steed⚡3³ 2y ago

Maybe it's even probable that pi nodes start losing sync after enough time and that's what's required for people to agree that it's a big problem and requires action to protect decentralisation. Or maybe the ordinals stupidity resolves naturally before then.