Talking about storage just means you don't understand this issue AT ALL🤡

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Then help me understand

It's not been my intention to minimize the attack. I see that perhaps I have / it's been taken that way.

Is the main issue/threat as you see it then, failed synchronization and re-synchronization of nodes, esp. with low bandwidth connections? Or am I missing the mark?

It's not enough that it's possible to do, but that most people actually choose to do it

Would most people do it even if it was completely trivial?

Yes

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.

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

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.

Maybe we focused on different things because somehow it made me a bit more hopeful 🤔

I never realized that assuming a constant block size the size increase of the blockchain in % is reduced every year until the rate of improvement of technology catches up. Sound like a journey through the desert and then we're good (if we don't die in the desert).

Even if Bitcoin survives to the peak, it's going to take a very long time to recover significantly

Fuck. We are in this together I guess 😅

For what it's worth I already decided that I want to run a full node until I croak, and I'm committed to throw at it whatever resources it needs to run. Hope it's enough!

Terrifying, if bitcoin fails a too large part of my savings will leave with it, as well as my hope to one day see a hard money. 🫠

We’ll get there! (I say this clearly to reassure myself)