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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: What Happens to the People Wanting to Run a Node in 20+ Years?
by
hatshepsut93
on 03/07/2021, 14:53:13 UTC
Yes, people will have to wait and download the whole blockchain, hopefully the bandwith will increase by that time. I would be more concerned about longer perspective, like 100 or 200 years, if our storage and bandwith technology will stagnate, eventually running a node could become a big problem, and the network would be slowly becoming more decentralized. Perhaps a blocksize reduction would be needed at some point in the future to combat this. But this is a problem for future generations.