Wow, with 0.22% every hour... I can see this as being a huge barrier to BTC adoption by normal people.
It's probably why people resort to using hardware wallets, like Trezor, or online web wallets.
But, I guess in the same token... if Bitcoin is to be used as a banking alternative, with utmost security... then it only makes sense that high tech specs are required by someone's computer in order to integrate the "banking system" with their computer. Minimum of 150 GB lol.
I guess that means in the future you'll have a computer that's solely for bitcoin purposes, which is more secure in the long run.
I agree with the others, it's not about the nodes, but rather your computer's specs. It's 150 GB that your hard drive has to validate via processors and such. Not going to be a lightning fast process... but once it's done, you'll finally have bitcoin core running and you can make cold wallets and everything.
It's probably why people resort to using hardware wallets, like Trezor, or online web wallets.
But, I guess in the same token... if Bitcoin is to be used as a banking alternative, with utmost security... then it only makes sense that high tech specs are required by someone's computer in order to integrate the "banking system" with their computer. Minimum of 150 GB lol.
I guess that means in the future you'll have a computer that's solely for bitcoin purposes, which is more secure in the long run.
I agree with the others, it's not about the nodes, but rather your computer's specs. It's 150 GB that your hard drive has to validate via processors and such. Not going to be a lightning fast process... but once it's done, you'll finally have bitcoin core running and you can make cold wallets and everything.