No, bandwidth matters more than threads.
I don't think downloading 1 TB over 1 year is a problem. The upload side though would be.
The "drastic" future of which you speak sounds like FUD to me.
No. It is research, and you can try to find the video yourself.
However I would highly recommend using a Xeon anyway simply to get ECC - it's worth it. As transistors continue to get smaller, the bits flipped by cosmic rays increase.
Oh yes, let's make nodes expensive to run. That is good for
decentralization!
in short w wont have 20mb blocks tonight. so lets NOT stop dynamic blocks starting at 2mb this year. purely with the '20mb blocks by midnight' doomsday rhetoric..
...when the reality is years away
Nobody is talking about 20 MB blocks tonight; you have reading comprehension problems.