Discussion
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)