storage is cheap, but transferring large amounts of data can be very expensive and in some places not possible

increased bandwidth requirements also make it much more difficult to use Tor and naturally lead to more centralization, both nodes and miners

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I dream in the future every smartphone device will have the possibility to run a node. Is that a realistic possible outcome or am I dreaming too much?

You can run a (pruned) node on it today. However, it is always better to have a dedicated device for important matters. Use your phone as a phone 🤙

That dream likely got pushed out many years because of this foolishness.

Is there an argument for transfer rates to keep increasing over time as well, outpacing the growing bandwidth requirements? I’d offer StarLink as an example of a new advent of much faster speeds available to far more of the world’s population.

Certainly will improve with time but most of the current high bandwidth options are more centralized options...I think the baseline for looking at speed improvements in networking is around mesh technologies where connections aren't limited by providers

But that bandwidth upper bound is determined by the blocksize limit and specifically the weight units. Neither of which ordinals changed (obviously). This is more an argument against SegWit than ordinals, no?

Dont you think at this point we need to start over? There needs to be a successor to bitcoin

Laughable.

Glad I'm not the only one seeing these issues

Bandwidth increases over time, like storage costs decrease over time... Not as efficiently though, it seems

Yes. NFTs represent a centralizing attack surface, and Bitcoin itself was invented to CENSOR out all the fiat/shitcoin noise. (I know, most shitcoiner monkey-inscriber maxis hate that word).

> storage is cheap,

Not in the cloud, in my experience.

You can have the storage on your local network and have it the VPS server remotely connect to it. Can be slow if the storage is not located near to the server.