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well, set aside the pride and all. if you are not a developer, there's no reason for you to download such heavy data. am using electrum right now for my btc holdings. light and txs are fast as well.
I'll have to remind privacy concern is also valid reason to run full node. For example, you don't want random electrum server know list of address belong to same person.
Maybe AmoreJaz means if don't run a full node, and just use the core wallet just store the fund.
Sure, I was thinking before making the decision to download bitcoin core. because the core wallet is complicated, can not be used for transactions before the blockchain is completed, But cmon, core wallet is from satoshi nakamoto legacy, same as this forum we live. there is a sense of pride if we talk it on seminar or other forum if we used what satoshi create, bitcoin, core and bitcointalk forum.