Roger Ver:
Bigger Blocks Mean More Decentralization for Bitcoin
https://www.bitcoin.com/news/bigger-blocks-means-decentralization-bitcoin/*Currently a very modest internet connection, available in most of the world, can easily support blocks more than one hundred times what is in use today.
*A $100 USD hard drive would take the better part of a century worth of full blocks to fill up at the current block size limit.
Jesus, these are arguments of 5yr old...
You know, I have a fairly powerful PC, but even it struggled running Core during the last spam attack. It didn't crash, but the load was noticeable.
In order for the reference client to be runnable by an average Joe, A LOT of engineering work must be done on the code side. That's exactly what core devs have been doing during the last year or two.
On a side note: if more users mean more nodes, why then the node count has been actually falling in the last two years? Despite an 1Mb limit and a lot of improvements in code...
It's not realistic to desire that an average person should run a full node.
Even Satoshi foresaw that.