It's not just connection speed that will prevent normal people from running Bitcoin; the best internet service I can get at my house has a 250gb monthly limit.
Also, I'm currently running full nodes on computers with 500GB hard drives. Is that the message? "Buy bigger computers and move somewhere that offers better internet service" ?
What kind of wallet will I be able to run, and will it depend on centralized servers? If we can use a pruned blockchain or some kind of new wallet, could we please have these new wallets before any hard fork?
You can already use a SPV and don't need to download the whole block-chain as Satoshi envisioned. The blockchain is currently ~32GB so those 500 GB HD should be fine for a while or you can add a 2TB hard drive for 60 bucks. Disk space is dirt cheap and most people upgrade regularly. Since you have such small hard drives did you realize that you should replace them every 3-4 years anyways because they now have a 10-30% failure rate depending upon the make/model? It is much safer to upgrade your computer regularly and sell the old one or convert those internals to externals than risk losing a portion of your data.
Are you sure you are even running as a full node by checking that your port 8333 is open(most people assume they are full node and aren't)?
Is that the message? "Buy bigger computers and move somewhere that offers better internet service" ?
Certainly not, I was simply providing real world data showing most home broadband users won't be effected by this.
I'd like to trust Gavin, but he says he's been selling BTC. That doesn't give me confidence in whatever changes he's planning.
He gets paid completely in bitcoin , of course he has to sell some. No one should be 100 invested in either fiat or bitcoin.