Quote from: JohnnyBTCSeed on April 02, 2015, 02:56:46 PM

I'm just going to file this here. As bitcoin was never intended to be decentralized.

Quote from: DannyHamilton on April 01, 2015, 04:49:46 AM

Let's take a look at what Satoshi ACTUALLY said back in 2010 about how he expected the network to operate:

(emphasis in bold added by me)

Quote from: satoshi on May 18, 2010, 08:06:46 PM

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Simplified Payment Verification is for lightweight client-only users who only do transactions and don't generate and don't participate in the node network. They wouldn't need to download blocks, just the hash chain, which is currently about 2MB and very quick to verify (less than a second to verify the whole chain). If the network becomes very large, like over 100,000 nodes, this is what we'll use to allow common users to do transactions without being full blown nodes. At that stage, most users should start running client-only software and only the specialist server farms keep running full network nodes, kind of like how the usenet network has consolidated.
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Quote from: satoshi on July 14, 2010, 09:10:52 PM

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I anticipate there will never be more than 100K nodes, probably less. It will reach an equilibrium where it's not worth it for more nodes to join in. The rest will be lightweight clients, which could be millions.

At equilibrium size, many nodes will be server farms with one or two network nodes that feed the rest of the farm over a LAN.

Quote from: satoshi on July 29, 2010, 02:00:38 AM

The current system where every user is a network node is not the intended configuration for large scale. That would be like every Usenet user runs their own NNTP server. The design supports letting users just be users. The more burden it is to run a node, the fewer nodes there will be. Those few nodes will be big server farms. The rest will be client nodes that only do transactions and don't generate.
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