Quote from: Andre# on January 18, 2016, 02:00:58 PM

Quote from: Richy_T on January 18, 2016, 04:34:03 AM

Quote from: AlexGR on January 17, 2016, 10:20:12 PM

Quote from: AZwarel on January 17, 2016, 10:10:43 PM

Why would be only 5-10, or only 500 nodes? There is no factual data to support that claim at all.

Everyone can have a p2p client that deals with 10kb/sec, has 100 mb storage requirements, needs 1 small cpu and 256mb ram. As you go up and up in hw requirements, cost goes up, "volunteers" go down - even if userbase goes up. As you hit datacenter level requirements the number of "volunteers" starts dropping significantly because costs start running in the 5 digit, then 6 digit category and eventually you'll be paying millions.

Some of us remember 8 bit CPUs running at 4Mhz with 1k of RAM and software stored on audio cassettes. Hard drives were just something you read about. The first one I actually had (nearly 10 years later) was 40MB

In the past 10 years, I have seen 10 racks of servers in a server room disappear into a handful of Virtual hosts. I'm currently running a full node on Amazon's smallest, weakest instance type. Their cost for storing the blockchain as it currently stands is on the order of $5/month.

These are issues we should not be worrying about until they are measurably becoming an issue. Like regularly full blocks already *are*

This. (My first hard drive was 10 MB, btw.)

An old ferguson cassette tape recorder attached to a Sinclair zx81 Grin

2000 bits per second, with about 500kb per side.

I still have an old 7 track tape from an IBM on the wall of my office. Weighs 3kgs and holds 1.1Mb

(edit: I rescued it from being scrapped in a bank i was working at, never actually used one Cool

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