It's not 16MB, it's 16MB times 6 per hour, times 24 per day, times 365 per year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The result is close to 1TB per year!!!
Be still my heart! I'll need to spend $25* per year to handle the onslaught. How will I ever cope!?!
* or the cost of a handful of smallblock bitcoin transaction fees. oh-the-huge-manatee.png!
1TB of SSD disk is not $25, rather it is ~$200 (per year of course). Not to mention the cpu needed for such a huge database with high transaction volume!
All of a sudden we are going to need multi-CPU blade servers and SANs to run a node! Come to your senses!