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Good evening Plebs.

Brace yourself. Ready? Are you sitting down comfortablely? Great. Here goes.

I hate to say this but the thought crossed my mind and now I have to give it air.

We all know Moore's law, right? Basically, computing processors get more powerful and cheaper at a breakneck rate, in layman's terms.

Soooo...if the main worry for the Bitcoin network is decentralization which is plebs having the monetary means to run a node, doesn't that mean we CAN at some point increase limitations of the Bitcoin consensus protocol and still be ok? What level of affordability worldwide are we solving for?

I realize people in the G7 countries can "afford" to run nodes much easier than say in emerging markets.

Don't shoot. It's just a thought. I am ready to be schooled ;)

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ThyLobster 1y ago

I don't follow.

If CPUs cheaper = Let's allow larger blocks? Increase difficulty? How is consensus a thing dependant on work?

Also, how do we know the threshold at which you are excluding population? When it's more than the national salary of Zimbabwe or north Korea? Or do these don't matter.

Legitimately confused. Please elaborate.

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