Quote from: inBitweTrust on February 20, 2015, 06:36:08 AM

The HD space is marginal and the greater concerns are with bandwidth costs. The cost to run a full node will likely increase from 20 usd a year to ~5 dollars a month for many people in the future. This isn't a lot of money but still may put further downward pressure upon the amount of nodes. This isn't unresolvable but we should be aware of it.

5$ per month while you control your own money seems good for me. You definitely pay more to your bank and you do not control your money. Also this issue is only for US (I guess). There are places where internet is cheaper and places where internet is more expensive so this 5$/mo doesn't apply to everyone.

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Your not making a lot of sense here, most of these people in this thread all want what is best for bitcoin and we just disagree on the solution to get there. I have been discussing specific solutions to resolve this problem, and am trying to get more specifics as to what degree of security or decentralization people against the hard fork expect to move forward.
You suggest that we cannot know how many miners it takes to secure the network but this also isn't true as we can make very good estimates of the costs it takes to attack the network and what the risks are based upon the amount of hashing power.

And this can not be applied to full nodes too? I am sure that we can estimate here too.

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My questions are aimed at the people against this hardfork to understand what degree of decentralization and security which would make them comfortable as their primary concern deals with the risk of centralization and decrease of nodes.

I wasn't aware that this topic was aimed at the people against the hardfork. My mistake.