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I’ve also thought about this. But it’s important to also be as geographically distributed as possible as well, so a node running in a remote part of the world is just as important as one running in NYC.

The easier that is over time also helps distribute the network as it currently is over time as well.

So while possible, it may be decades down the road and multiple factors of adoption before that makes sense. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
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Moon 1y ago

Yeah this thought is like 20-30 years out in my mind (although tech acceleration could push the issue much faster).

I just ask myself "If bitcoin was launched today is there anything that would be tangible different?" and that's the only thing. Bitcoin launched in 2024 would like select a larger blocksize as its decentralized standard just because technology has progressed significantly since 2008. This kind of progession has histroically compounded, so like in 2050 will Bitcoin being shackled to the 2008 hardware/bandwidth standard make ANY sense?

No one can say, of course. So we'll just have to see but I definitely think this will become a really discussion at some point. Also seems like the only ways self custody could ever really scale - tech infrastructure has to scale massively first...

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Bison 1y ago

Yup. I often think bitcoin cash was just 50 years too early lol

It makes sense to always optimize and defer to more decentralization and security.