Are you kidding? I run a full node on my Core I7-4790k 4.0ghz, use it daily for other things, including games, video editing/conversion and check my wallet data periodically and had no problems. So what is your issue?
Periodically? Are you sure you are not running a non-listening node? Mine eats up over 1 TB of bandwidth per month very easily and I can't possibly imagine running the node on the same system that I use for work (not even with the current block size).
I don't expect anyone to do anything. All I am saying is a gaming rig can run the minimum current requirements and many times over. If you have more than 16GB of ram and a decent internet connection and HDD space you can run a node while you game and it shouldn't affect your game.
Read the study and the data from the Bitfury group. Their data makes your claim void.
Which is absolute nonsense. I have no idea why you are trying to push your, clearly uneducated, opinion on the matter? Do you really expect me to run a node, on the same machine that I'd play games on? Do you want the entry for nodes to be >$1000 worth of hardware? If you do, then you may as well start building Paypal 2.0.
Which is absolute nonsense. The machine I run a fully-validating, non-mining wallet upon, cost me $300. Several years ago.
It is certainly not. Why are you spamming and quoting out of context? The data as provided by the study from Bitfury confirms my claim.
And that's not the real issue. The real issue is that - if you're not willing to part with less than a half-bitcoin in order to run a fully-validating, non-mining wallet, your so-called 'contribution' to Bitcoin network security is a net negative. Fuck right off.
Who are you, to force me to pay half a Bitcoin, to achieve financial sovereignty? Leave this forum and Bitcoin, cancerous idiot. You are the exact type of people which should be called out on every occasion (and who unfortunately can't be removed from this system).
It is of utmost importance to keep the cost of running nodes as low as possible. However, this does not mean that we should force a system which must work on a raspberry fee (which is often what another type of cancerous idiots tend to exaggerate with).