Re: Ordinals and other non-monetary "use cases" as miner reward on 2140+
Initial syncing takes time, even on Bitcoin when we talk full node, full blockchain on BTC network weights about 2x of XMR.
That's because there's a much less portion of transactions happening in Monero. If you had 800k transactions everyday, it'd be a verification nightmare. Read this comparison. There are plenty of optimizations being done in this regard and my 10 year old laptop has no problem with current version.
Again, that's the case, because there is orders of magnitude less activity than in Bitcoin. If the on-chain volume goes up by a factor of 100x, things would be noticeably worse.Monero has Dynamic block size, it scales a lot better than Bitcoin as you can observe it here
I wouldn't call that "scaling". It's just linear growth, parameterized according to on-chain demand. It holds as much water as telling me that Bitcoin Cash is 8 times better in terms of scaling, because it has 32 MB block size. True scaling comes with transaction compression, such as using one UTXO for several off-chain transactions. Watch it full if you have time and then we can continue discussion, at least the second half about scalability.
Seems like an interesting talk! I'll watch it when I find the time. 