Re: Analysis and list of top big blocks shills (XT #REKT ignorers)
I found this analogy to be simple:
Your 1GB hard drive is almost full, you have 2 options:
1. Buy a 2GB hard drive to replace the old hard drive
2. Buy another 1GB hard drive, and a RAID controller and set up a Raid 0 array, so that the Raid software will move 40% of the data from your old hard drive to new drive , so it becomes not full again. Then you have total 2GB of space in your new array, which functionality wise equal to a 2GB hard drive
I think any normal people will just go for the first option, only geeks and technical interested guy will try the second approach, and eventually many of them will give up on the second setup because it is just too complex to implement and maintain, and a Raid 0 will have higher risk of failure, it does not worth the effort
I do not think they even sell two Gigabyte hard drives anymore. Even eight terabyte hard drives are relatively inexpensive. An eight terabyte hard drive will be able to store the entire Bitcoin blockchain for the next six years easily, and that is with a two megabyte blocksize limit.Your 1GB hard drive is almost full, you have 2 options:
1. Buy a 2GB hard drive to replace the old hard drive
2. Buy another 1GB hard drive, and a RAID controller and set up a Raid 0 array, so that the Raid software will move 40% of the data from your old hard drive to new drive , so it becomes not full again. Then you have total 2GB of space in your new array, which functionality wise equal to a 2GB hard drive
I think any normal people will just go for the first option, only geeks and technical interested guy will try the second approach, and eventually many of them will give up on the second setup because it is just too complex to implement and maintain, and a Raid 0 will have higher risk of failure, it does not worth the effort
Though good trick with the Raid setup, might be easier then syncing from scratch or downloading a bootstrap. I do think running full nodes today is already restricted to geeks and technical interested guys. Since most non technical people do not even have desktop computers anymore, most people use laptops and tablets now instead. I think the vast majority of people will just end up using SPV wallets, it is how I introduce Bitcoin to non technical people today after all, since everyone does have a smartphone.
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Archive-Internal-Hard-Drive/dp/B00XS423SC