i believe for bitcoin to succeed and not turn into paypal, we need at least 3/1 of the bitcoin users running their own node.

and this isn't just gonna happen, because running a bitcoin node is hard and demanding. yes its easier than many other big networks. and possible.

but you need to install knots, run it. and in order become a listening node you need to install tor separately.

if you wanna use you node with your wallet (easily), you need electrum. if you wanna explore the network using your own node, you need to install, mempoolspace. all of these are complex processes. and on top of all these, you need to spare 1TB disk space.

so even if you were able to set this all up, many laptops today are still 1 TB, not to mention the growth rate of that disk space required is several GBs per month. so you cant really do anything other than running a bitcoin node on this device.

so this shows why many people buy another hardware like Start9 or Umbrel to to these.

but we should be able to run a node on our laptops, without feeling it. it should be easy. and should have good ux. but the most importantly we need to optimize and compress the way we store the blockchain data, in order make it easier to run a node. it shouldn't take more space than 1 or 2 AAA game in 2025.

and many other things that i talked about before on this profile.

not gonna mention same things over and over again.