About to decommission my simple Raspberry Pi 4 - 8GB due to utter bullshit.

For the Start9 DIY’ers you understood there was a few affordable options to run StartOS and a Bitcoin Stack. Time expired on the latter.

Since the spam, since the bloat… the simple solution to node running is becoming obsolete.

At this rate we will be talking 4TB hard drives, juicy CPU’s and a higher demand on your local internet provider for initial downloads and every day operation in the years to come.

All of which is not conducive to node network growth.

When I price out building my own node for the future, let’s say 10 years time the cost is expensive.

I get that technology demand is a thing. I get that change is inevitable and blockchain growth will lead to a larger initial download but why wouldn’t everything we do as a network of plebs focus on the lowest common denominator, the lowest barrier of entry.

Simply put… node running will not be for the poors.

The profit of VC’s, spammers, scammers, dishonorable miners and overall bad actors in Bitcoin will have a trade off…. The node network.

We can do better. 🫡

-End of Rant-

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