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!

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.

“Artificially increasing fees is theft and larceny” is a ridiculous equivalency with all due respect.

They just paid fees for something stupid, and fees have to grow on the base network anyway. It was very inconvenient, but that’s all it was. No one is guaranteed any fee price at any level of the system. It’s an open, permissionless market.

I prefer gathering data to see what is happening empirically to avoid making assumptions.

One of my nodes runs ordisrespector. The others do the inverse, disconnecting nodes that are ordisrespector.

You have vastly over estimated the power of ordinals. They are a nuisance at absolute worst. It isn’t remotely an existential threat. Every proposed “solution” I’ve seen so far is much more of a risk than the thing they are supposed to fix

Maximum theoretical capacity of bitcoin for 100 years is 21 terabytes, right?

4MB x 24 hours x 6 blocks per hours x 365 days x 100 years

How much is a terabyte these days?

The cost to run a node that will last 100 years today is not that high.

Ordinals are a form of attack on bitcoin. But frankly, my perception is ideological attacks are more dangerous than this.

I run a node, but you're right I don't think about these kind of network attacks as much as yourself or Luke. And I sleep better at night knowing you guys worry about this.

I had a very interesting answer

All in all defenders have been doing a piss-poor job in 2023.